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

1. Get a good ax and make sure it’s sharp. Having a quality, sharp ax is key to a successful split. Zdon recommends a 36-inch handle with a 4-pound ax head (Zdon used a Best Made Co. Felling Ax for ...

Vipukirves is an efficient tool for chopping firewood, possessing many advantages, such as speed and work safety, over traditional axes and small hydraulic log splitters. Vipukirves separates sections ...

It’s nice to picture yourself chopping firewood like a lumberjack–deftly swinging an axe through log rounds to cut perfectly sized pieces. That said, it's simply not how it happens. For most of us, ...

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 Finnish woodcutter has designed an axe that could make a significant difference in the lives of some northerners. Many people in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) and the neighbouring Yukon ...

My woodland in the Black Mountains, South Wales, is small. There is a mix of young oak, alder, beech, birch, hazel, lime, hawthorn, wych elm, the odd sweet chestnut and a lot of ash. When we moved to ...