Wood splitting

Heating your home or cottage with wood takes a steady supply of split logs. Our expert offers advice for DIYers on how to split firewood.

This infographic shows some of the best types of firewood to use in your fireplace of campfire. It also tells you types of wood to avoid this winter.

Whether you need to split the logs from trees on your property to make firewood, or if you split bought logs to save on cost, then a good splitting maul is essential. Read our splitting maul guide and review to find the best choices.

Make an endless supply of kindling with ease using the Stikkan Softwood Kindling Splitter, the original kindling maker since 1982. Incredibly easy to use, this original design features multiple cleats and a long handled wedge tool that allows you to quickly split wood logs down into manageable, quick to catch kindling. Simply start at the lowest cleat and work your way up the cleats as you push the wedge down through the log. Mounts easily to a sturdy (not plasterboard) wall or fence post…

Splitting firewood with a hand tool is a solved problem—the axe is one of the oldest tools on Earth—but there's still a mess of people experimenting with different ways to do it. Here we'll take a look at a few of these alternate methods, ranging from crazy to clever.Mechanical AdvantageAny...

If you’ve used wood as your heating or cooking source for any length of time, then you know the key to heat production is in properly drying and storing firewood. We want to share what we’ve learned with you over the years about drying and firewood storage.

great769 shows you how to split wood quicker and easier then ever before . This method works with most types of wood, I've split maple , Birch, spruce and fi...

Wood slabs come in all shapes and sizes and can be used to make a variety of items, such as furniture, countertops, or decorations. However, it can be a real pain when the perfect wood slab breaks apart or develops an unsightly split. When...

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Few years ago we showed you the Leveraxe, a Finnish design twist on an axe head that makes splitting firewood easier: Well, turns out that idea wasn't new, even if the execution was. An American dude named Bob Kolonia invented the Chopper1 Axe way back in 1975, and it sold