Here are the basics on how to split wood with an axe.

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While a short, light hatchet is great for intricate tasks such as making kindling, carving, or clearing trails, nothing beats a long-handled axe for chopping logs into firewood. With its two-part ...

A hard-use demonstration of the Fiskars X11 splitting axe showing how its size and design handle demanding wood-processing ...

The sounds of my attempt to chop the long log in half echoed off the canyon’s rock cliffs like gunfire. I wasn’t having success because I was using a smaller axe with a narrow head. It was the wrong ...