Thread: The newest in axe tech

Originally Posted by Maladroit

My father called this technique "Chapell's jar" and as a boy I used it a lot to split the seriously hard firewood logs we have in Australia.

I always used a block splitter or a maul as they call them elsewhere. Axe was a waste of time on big hardwood logs unless I wanted slivers for kindling.
My heater was built from a 44 gall drum so when i say logs ....