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 ...

It’s nice to picture yourself chopping firewood like a lumberjack–deftly swinging an axe through log rounds to cut perfectly sized pieces. That said, it's simply not how it happens. For most of us, ...

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 ...