Splitting wood indoors

[mhawg]

(I posted this in the Busse forum also but since ain't much happening over here I figured I'd add it here too.)

Well, it's wet and cold down here in Carolina and the wife wants a fire in the living room fireplace. I had started splitting wood yesterday but I didn't get to the tinder and starter wood. Too wet to stand outside so I brought a few pieces into my office and split wood on the office safe (actually firmer than what I am using for a splitting stump out back.) The SRKW HCSE made short work of some well seasoned Sugar Maple with an old ax handle for a baton. I have broken knife blades in fat lighter before so I needed something equally fat to split with. The Fat Punkin' Warden mowed through it like it was SYP down to slivers smaller than a pencil. The rule of splitting fat lighter; Split it until you think it's small enough then split it 2 more times. It just goes to show that HOGS and Rats can work together.

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[tomthebaker]

Very nice! How is the edge retention on that 154CM Rat?

 

[OldPhysics]

This Thread is almost .......................................... Biblical.

 

[mhawg]

Very nice! How is the edge retention on that 154CM Rat?

I'll have to put it under the microscope to check for micro chipping...

It still shaves the neighbors cat. :foot:

 

[tomthebaker]

It still shaves the neighbors cat. :foot:

I just may need a cat shaver

 

[Dennis in MA]

Skinny fat wood???

I just dry some oak splits by the stove and then hack em up into about 1"x1" thick pieces with my FSH. They usually light with newspaper pretty well. But I've got a good draft in teh stove to almost bellows-like quality.