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I recently had to split some firewood for a cooking fire in one of those pedestal mounted grills that are about 18" wide. So, on the age-old advice of my father, I went into the woods to look for some standing dead-wood. I found a 30' chunk of maple that was about 6" in diameter at the base. It looked, to my inexperienced eye, to have been dead for a year or more.
I dragged it back to camp, busted it into smaller chunks, and set to work on it with my brother-in-law's hatchet(which was quite sharp). 15-20 minutes, and about a gallon of sweat later, I had enough firewood to cook our stinkin' burgers.
My question is, is there some alternetive to a full size axe when it comes to chopping seasoned hardwood? It was WAY too much work with that hatchet. And let me add that I am no small fella. I can swing a hatchet. The wood was braced firmly against a tree root, so there wasn't much bounce.
I'm not afraid to spend some coin on a good axe/hatchet. I would like to have something relatively portable.
Any/all help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I dragged it back to camp, busted it into smaller chunks, and set to work on it with my brother-in-law's hatchet(which was quite sharp). 15-20 minutes, and about a gallon of sweat later, I had enough firewood to cook our stinkin' burgers.
My question is, is there some alternetive to a full size axe when it comes to chopping seasoned hardwood? It was WAY too much work with that hatchet. And let me add that I am no small fella. I can swing a hatchet. The wood was braced firmly against a tree root, so there wasn't much bounce.
I'm not afraid to spend some coin on a good axe/hatchet. I would like to have something relatively portable.
Any/all help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.