When you start making firewood, the first hurdle everyone faces is "drying." You might think that if you just split and stack it, it will dry naturally, but when the season comes and you try to burn ...

A splitting block is more than just for convenience sake – it is also a safer way to split wood and is better on sensitive backs. The Woodland Homestead (Storey Publishing, 2015) by Brett McLeod is ...

Unless you want the workout, these aren’t practical for splitting more than a few log rounds. There are also kindling splitters or Crackers–named for the brand that popularized them–which break a log ...

Looking to start cutting logs for firewood on the homestead? Learn here how to split firewood with a chainsaw for less strenuous processing. At 98 years old, economist and activist Scott Nearing said, ...