How To Split Wood

video How To Split Wood

In this video I'll show you how to split wood with a maul while wearing a moose hat.

rimar2000 says: Jul 6, 2012. 5:21 PM

Thanks for the captions, I can understand wrote English but not spoken.
Thanks for the fun, I laughed a lot imagining myself trying to split these logs. Brute force only, don't work.
Thanks for that beautilful landscape.

BigNate84 (author) says: Jul 6, 2012. 6:27 PM

Thank you Osvaldo. It takes a good amount of time to write out the captions so I am glad to know that you found it useful. I have more How-To videos on my BigNate84 YouTube channel that all include captions. I'm glad you enjoyed the landscape and got a laugh out of the video. It was filmed in New Hampshire. Take care!

CaseyCase says: Jul 5, 2012. 9:32 PM

Nice, but I prefer this guy's method...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCJADv2shNE

BigNate84 (author) says: Jul 6, 2012. 5:14 AM

Thats great! I've seen that video before. He does a good job.

CaseyCase says: Jul 6, 2012. 11:58 AM

It's definitely a different approach (splitting slabs off of the sides of the round) with a specialized tool. Here is a link to the inventor's site--http://www.vipukirves.fi/english/description.htm. It looks like a super efficient way to split firewood.

BigNate84 (author) says: Jul 6, 2012. 4:14 PM

Thanks Casey. I wonder if its the design of the new and improved tool that makes the difference or the type of wood and amount of time it was left to season? Probably a combination of both. In the video above we were using freshly cut pine (not recommended) we should have waited a season or two so the wood could dry out and split more easily. I like the efficiency of the tire method used in the link you attached.