Stacking firewood is pleasant work. It’s quiet and even contemplative. The hard and sometimes dangerous work of felling trees and bucking them with a chainsaw is done. The laborious splitting by hand ...

If, like me, your credentials as a woodsman come primarily from watching movies set in the woods, you might think you can just swing any ax down the center of a log to split it. That’s not quite right ...

This is the first time I am running the Eastonmade 22-28 wood splitter. I have some ash rounds that need to be split and they ...

But that’s just not how it happens. For most of us, manually breaking down whole or bisected logs into usable firewood is hard work and takes a lot of practice. Using a log splitter makes things much ...

Splitting firewood has come a long way from the days of swinging a heavy axe. With new manual splitters, hydraulic systems, ...

Cooking over a wood fire at camp can be both enjoyable and rewarding, adding a rich and smoky aroma to your dishes and a satisfying back-to-basics experience. However, using large logs or firewood can ...

If you don’t camp or have a fireplace, then you probably don’t know this, but ... making kindling can be darn difficult. A simple-but-clever new device known as Mr. Quicksplit, however, looks like it ...

Each Thanksgiving, Fred Bogner, his grandfather and son gather to fell a tree or two, split the firewood and stack it before settling down to a well-earned feast. “That’s what we do,” says the ...