Eric, Novice Lumberjack

The chopping described/animated in my previous post has continued… Sunday, Monday, today. I’ve decided to make a routine out of it on afternoons I have available, and plan on having a lovely stack of firewood by the time it gets cold enough to make use of it.

More pictures forthcoming, but here’s a taste of one of the new tools I picked up at Ace… it makes splitting wood much easier than with a sissy axe. For you suburbanites, its called a splitting wedge (mad respect to the true outdoorsman who knows way more about this crap than me), I put it in the top of the vertical log in the last picture from the last post, and then slam the top of it with a sledgehammer, till the wood finally gives up and is split in halves. Yeah!