I split 2 YEARS worth of WOOD with this AXE! Heating With WOOD.

I should be out camping, but in the midst of this whole swine flu nonsense, I feel like I need to be a little bit more prepared. It's time to split some wood, stack some wood. As you can see, my stacking job didn't hold up to snuff a few days ago. That fell over. I'm almost done my pile back there. I do not want to have to rely on the propane guys to come here. I prefer, actually, if they didn't. So, with that said, Today is the day talking about my favorite axe for splitting wood. I use it around the house for two years now. We went through almost ten cords of wood this year. we burned we only fill up our propane tank once and we're almost out of it again so therein lies the urgency yeah let's get to it Like I said before this whole avian bird flu epidemic I had planned on camping this weekend but it's okay it's a good time to stay home get things ready there's gonna be people out this weekend anyway I'd rather go during the week where there's not gonna be many people oh that said this is March break So we'll see anyways when I moved up here last October so not this past October two octobers ago. We didn't know much about heating with wood I had we'd only only done it once prior maybe 11 years ago, and that was just for one season So I had just been using my grandmother's axe. I've been using my grandmother's axe to split wood. It wasn't a splitting Axe and I dinged up the handle pretty good, and it wasn't doing a very good job So I went over to the hardware store, and I got a Husqvarna splitting maul so it's not the longest thing as you can see it's about up to my thigh but the head is pretty cool it's a super wedge shaped axe head I've never seen an axe head this wedge shaped before so it concentrates all the focus just in this part where it hits the wood it's all force coming down in that spot and it works really well I have dinged up the handle as well a little bit on here a little paracord wrap wouldn't be too bad but replacing the handle is not such a hard thing and I kind of enjoy it as well so let's get to splitting some wood I'll show you how she works yeah you can do the old Morse Kahansky trick or the Ray Mears golfing splitting woods we got to go split up all that wood that's left in the piles there and then replace this wood because this wood is not very dry it hadn't seasoned as well as that wood so use up all that wood and then replace that pile with this because this is a crappy spot to pile of wood anyways I never had anything above it and and I don't want put this crappy wood on top of the good wood basically the whole winter just keep putting it off putting it off winter is almost over a perfect time to do this i will be getting back to actual adventure type videos and more real bushcraft type videos and stuff too that will be coming very soon with the warming weather i'm kind of sick of this winter i'm looking at pictures of where i used to live it's all there's no snow grass is always greener hey there we're gonna start off with this gnarled twisty pretty pretty decent sized piece compared to the other ones actually start off with that see how she goes the axe works with that then there's much more straight smaller pieces too but might as well start off with the real test gotta stay back big guy secure that split on the second hit there I flipped it around yeah you can see just right there it's gone all the way through one more whack will do this thing just fine I'm sure and that's a big old piece that was heavy when I lifted it up you gonna be okay buddy my chopping block has seen better days don't do this at home got a nice small kindling piece off there I got two definite burnable sizes I can split this down again if I wanted to there's no reason so I'll keep at it again that was the big piece split this guy pick a different spot to lay out oh okay you see this one laying on the ground here this guy we can do one of the golf swings on that one i'm sure you have to read the wood right i wouldn't be doing this with that piece that i just split the gnarled stick piece i'm doing this with a straight grain smaller piece tripper you gotta go out out efforts at all and then you can do one of these just stand lay in front of it they're too tight go on buddy oh the side is better for me anyways it works just fine sometimes when i don't want to pick pieces of wood to put them on the chopping block I'll just do that come out of the pile like this they split They split if not they're to pick them up Sometimes it's easier than that so the people are gonna love hearing that rubber squeaking you could pick a different spot and right next to the camera to chew that oh oh man take the super dry straight grain ones and make some kindling out of it All these other sizes are decent enough to burn I like to have a mix some small some big So how's everybody doing? Staying safe at home from Giardia?