![]() I use a Norlund hudson bay style hatchet, mostly, but my Fiskars and GB SFA work the same way. I normally try to work off an 8 or 9" piece (iow, half the length of a "standard" 16" piece of firewood). This is important when splitting log rounds into quarters, for fire wood, but the target is a little smaller when you're trying to make kindling. how are you "splitting" your wood? Are you standing it on end, and trying to get the hatchet to drive all the way down through it? If so, there isn't much "edge" touching the shoulders of the split, and blade shape (lots of cheek) becomes very necessary to force it apart. I'm going to look at this from a skill/technique standpoint. I like to line it up on my strong side and swing the hatchet treating the pole as a mallet and the wedge as a ball, you get the picture.Īt least this is the way I do things, YMMV. For a polo wedge lay the wood so that the round and wedge are parallel to the ground. Momentum and gravity will do the work for you finishing the split. For the gravity wedge flip the wood so the wedge is facing the ground and find something solid like a rock to toss it down on. Then you give the wedge a couple of taps with the pole and you choose between the gravity wedge and wedge polo. Start the split at and edge with the hatchet and place the wedge in the crack before removing the hatchet. I also find it handy to produce a couple of wedges first if splitting larger rounds. This also makes it easier to remove the hatchet due to the decreased friction and not having sharp edges preventing you from rocking the hatchet back and forth. It can act as a wedge in the wood with less friction since only the center of the head should contact the wood up until the eye. British Army Cooker No.I'm going to recommend a vintage North American hatchet with a high centerline.Backpacking Cookset Combo : GSI Infinity Mug + Snow Peak Hybrid Summit.Nov 3 Thursday – 4 Friday – Travel to Punta Arenas.Nov 05 Satuday – Street Walk: Punta Arenas. ![]() Nov 06 Sunday – Travel: Punta Arenas to Torres del Paine.Nov 07 Monday – Hike: Paine Grande to Grey.Nov 08 Tuesday – Hike: Grey to 2nd Suspension Bridge to Kayak.Nov 10 Thursday – Hike: Paine to Frances.Nov 11 Friday – Hike: Frances to Britanico to Los Cuernos.Nov 12 Saturday – Hike: Los Cuernos to Chilleno.Nov 13 Sunday – Hike: Chileno to Towers to Central.Nov 14 Monday – Travel: Torres del Paine to Punta Arenas to Santiago.Nov 15 & 16 – Zero day in Santiago + Travel Santiago to Cusco (2:30pm-4pm flight).Nov 17 Thursday – Travel: Cusco to Starlodge Sacred Valley.Nov 18 Friday – Travel: Starlodge to Ollantaytambo to Cusco to SFO (DELAYED!).Nov 19 & 20 – Zero Day in Cusco + Daytrip: Pisac and Ruins.Nov 21 Monday – Daytrip: Rainbow Mountain.Nov 22/23 Tuesday – Travel: Cusco-Lima-Mexico City-SFO.Trangia 27-2 & 25-2 Ul Stove Kit Review.Optimus Clip-On Canister Stove Windshield Review.British Army Cooker No.12 Review (Diesel/Kero only).It’s a fireside friend and nothing else, but a dang good fireside friend. This product really needs to stay at home, near a fireplace or near where you keep your cord of firewood. a regular camp axe or hatchet won’t be able to split wood as efficiently, but would be able to do so many other things well. It’s designed to split wood, and while it could do the other jobs that an axe requires, it would be unwieldy in any other role. Keep in mind though, that it’s weight, blade shape, and shortness really makes it a one purpose axe. Though you really need to kneel when using it as the maul is so short that you risk injuring yourself if used standing, the balance is really designed to maximize the force of the blade going into the wood. The blade is sharp and angles out ridiculously wide, with a sledgehammer-like round back, so when splitting especially large diameter wood, you can use another hammer to push the blade in further if you can split the wood in a single blow. Considering how small this axe/maul is, it’s pretty amazing who well it splits wood.
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