I should be Oh camping but in the midst of this whole swine flu nonsense I feel like it need to be a little bit more prepared it's time to split some wood stack some wood as you can see my staffing job didn't hold up to snuff a few days ago that fell over I'm almost done my pile back there I do not want to have to rely on the propane guys to come.

Here I prefer actually if they didn't so with that said today is a day talking about my favorite axe for splitting wood I use around the house for two years now we went through almost ten cords of wood this year we burned we only fill up our put-putting take once and we're almost out of it again so therein lies the urgency yeah let's get.

To it   there's the beast like I said before this whole avian bird flu epidemic I had planned on camping this weekend but it's okay it's a good time to stay home get things ready there's many people out this weekend anyway I'd rather go during.

The week where there's not gonna be many people oh that said this is marks break so we'll see anyways when I moved up here last October so not this past October - October's ago we didn't know much about heating with wood I would've only but only done it once prior maybe 11 years ago and that was just for one season so I had just been using my.

Grandmother's axe I've been using my grandmother's axe to split what it wasn't a splitting axe and I I digged up the handle pretty good and it wasn't doing a very good job so I went over to the hardware store and I got a Husqvarna splitting maul so it's not the longest thing as you can see it's a bone up to my thigh but the head is pretty cool.

It's a super wedge-shaped axe head I've never seen an axe had this wedge-shaped before so it concentrates all the focus just in this part where it hits the wood it's all for coming down in that spot and it works really well I have dinged up the handle as well a little bit on here a little paracord wrap wouldn't be too bad.

But replacing the handle is not such a hard thing and I kind of enjoy it as well so let's get to splitting some wood I'll show you how she works yeah you can do the old more skiing ski track or the Ray Mears golfing splitting wood stuff we got to go explore all that wood that's left in the piles there and then replace this wood because this wood is.

Not very dry it hasn't seasoned as well as that wood so we'll use up all that wood and then replace that pile with this because this is a crappy spot to place a pile of wood anyways I never had anything above it and and I don't want to put this crappy wood on top of the good wood so I've been thinking like this.

Basically the whole winter winter is almost over I will be getting back to actual adventure more real bushcraft to that will be coming very soon with the warming weather what kind of stick of this winter I'm looking at pictures of where we're gonna start off with this gnarled twisty pretty the other ones actually start off.

With down see how she goes the axe works with that then there's much more straight smaller pieces I'm sure that you can see just right there it's gone all the way through one more whack do this thing just fine I'm sure and that's a big old piece my chopping block has seen better days don't do this at home all right there.

You go so nice small kindling piece often I got to definite burnable sizes I could split this down again if I wanted to there's no reason so keep at it again that was the big piece oh oh oh okay you see this one laying on the ground here this guy we can do one of the golf swings on that one I'm sure you have to.

Read the wood right I'm going to be doing this with that piece that I just split the gnarled thick piece I'm doing this with a straight grain smaller piece Jeffrey got it go out so no efforts at all and then you can do one of these I'm gonna stand way in front of it nope my pants are too tight Oh off to the side it's better for me.

Haley works just fine sometimes when I don't want to pick I'll just do that over the pole like this sure the people are gonna love hearing that rubber squeaking maybe you can pick a different spot than all right next to the camera to chew that oh oh sometimes I like to take the super dry straight green ones and make kindling.

Out of it one hand   all right last hit for this all good yeah yeah all right well all these other signs is a decent enough to burn I like to have a mix some small some big how's everybody doing.

Staying safe at home from Giardia