Helpful tips for splitting firewood by hand

Wanted to share a few helpful tips if you split your firewood by hand. Hope you enjoy!
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[@tomkelly8827]

I live in Canada and make maple syrup. I split 40 cord a year with an axe. This video is good. Cut at the crotch for sure! Also wrap your wooden handle with hard fencing wire many times from the handle up about 6"-1', it keeps the handle from breaking. Also never lift your wood up to split it. Split it on the frozen ground or on a stump cut off at ground level. You get more help from gravity with every swing, more velocity. I use a maul only for an initial split on a big piece or with spruce and elm. Otherwise it is 5 lb axe with a long handle for me all the way. Get a longer handle, it gives you way more swing, more speed. I use the tip up method in front of my woodshed or where the big log lies. Tip up 30 pieces and split them all in a row. Lifting up so many big rounds is exhausting. Stop lifting your wood to split it. split it on the ground. I have considered getting a wood splitter for the harder to split woods but otherwise I am 2x as fast as a guy with a wood splitter. Any wood splitter. Wood processors are faster but they cost a lot more then my axe and then I would need to go workout afterwards. Splitting wood keeps me in top shape

[@toonybrain]

“...sometimes I come out to clean up, and realize there’s even more to clean up.” Completely relate.

[@mascatrails661]

Man I know that feeling of going out to clean up and throughout the day you start recognizing all the other things that need attention. Thanks for taking the time to make this tips video - I too prefer the bungee to the tires.

[@Wearychef]

Thanks a bunch! I'm taking on splitting firewood for the first time ever this year! We bought a house in the woods, and the previous owner was nice enough to leave us with a bunch of cut wood, but it needs to be split to use in our wood stove. Can't wait to learn more from you!

[@lyricderbin1169]

While splitting, look for natural cracks forming on the ends and try and hit those first.

[@dukeflem]

Good Job! That's the essence of it without extra unnecessary words.

[@jamesstan317]

Thanks for sharing. I still split all mine by hand, we burn close 5 cords a year especially if northeast continues to be as cold as last year. I'm starting to save for a splitter but I figure at least I get a good workout! Thanks.

[@LifeinFarmland]

+JimmyStan Gym membership, we don't need no stinking gym membership. :) Thanks for sharing.

[@williammack3018]

I see a lot of vids with folks using improper technique for the swing. You might cover that sometime. Also buying a splitter with a "table" is a good idea.

[@timberray9572]

I still enjoy splitting wood by hand every now and then, however I use a five pound splitting axe. Because it is lighter than a maul you get more speed on the down stroke, which gives you the same splitting force, and its less taxing to work with.

[@ofthewoods137]

Ray Duerksen, that's what I use too. I'm a small frame guy and I get the speed from my swing. I'll take my axe over other manual tools.

[@grahammcfadyenhill9555]

Physics says no to that conclusion.

[@woodsbound7932]

I also like the bungee chord tip. Great video!

[@LifeinFarmland]

+Woods Bound Thanks and thanks for watching!

[@windswepthomestead4851]

The bungee cord idea is great. Great Job!

[@LifeinFarmland]

+Windswept Homestead :) Thanks for the kind words!

[@mattseymour8637]

Useful video and the bungee and axing at each side not in the middle is a useful tip

[@Chickenfoothomestead]

Hey, I like the bungee cord tip. Thank you. We are taking some trees down this weekend that are dead or dying. We also have one that has become a mouse highway to the attic.-Kim

[@LifeinFarmland]

+This Old Homestead It sure seems like that time of year for mice fun. Sounds like you guys will be on a great track so when you get your stove you will be all set. Thanks for watching!

[@MyClarissa21]

Thank you!!! I enjoyed the video!

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[@pinetopoutdoors3286]

+Life in Farmland which chainsaw is that, an MS 260?

[@LifeinFarmland]

+Pine Top Outdoors It is the MS290. That saw has worked out very well for me. Has cut a lot of firewood.

[@mascatrails661]

Yeah I don't mess around with trying to split crotches... if one gets into my pile somehow, I'll pull out the chainsaw to deal with it. Eric, I'd love to hear from you a bit more about your chainsaw practices, mainly: how many chains do you keep active? how often do you sharpen? how often do you flip your bar? have you ever had to replace a bar from wearing it down? I used to sharpen at every gas tank and flip the bar at the same time... now I've kinda gotten lazy and just sharpen when I feel it getting dull and the individual pieces of sawdust get real small.

[@archwhitemage]

grind off your wedge corners, the steel can chip and hit you in your face other wise thumbs up

[@Mr.Pennington]

i second this motion; have shrapnel in my leg from this.

[@thewhopper256ify]

@@Mr.Pennington is he talking about the “mushroomed” part of the butt of the wedge?

[@zacharyjarnot9912]

you are good at splitting wood i split alot too

[@henryholliday1]

I will say this having a logsplitter is great but I still split wood by hand to keep myself good at it because like everything else logsplitter can and will break and having the ability to split wood by hand is great I sell about 20 cords a year and I had a logsplitter and It broke and I have to split all my wood by hand and just the short time I had the splitter I got really rusty splitting by hand and I will say this splitting wood by hand is an art that takes pain to learn

[@garybenedict3673]

Great video super advice. Did you forget your chaps ? If you hurt yourself I won’t have anyone to rely on for advice.

[@richardhowe2370]

I like the bungie cord idea. I see your splitting ash, which is a nice wood to split and burn. Are their some tips on splitting harderwood? Like maple or oak? Thanks again for the video.

[@Row389]

Tks for info stay safe y’all from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦 fr covid 19

[@danvize4284]

next build a splitter or wood processor and make a video. that would be fun to watch

[@PatrickWagz]

5:01 OMG!! It split by itself.... LOL

[@LifeinFarmland]

ha, if you watch it in slow mo you can see I did a karate chop.

[@bctruck]

My best advice for splitting wood by hand,is to save up some money and pay a young guy to do it,,,,,, or buy a splitter.

[@LifeinFarmland]

+BCtruck, rebuild, repair,repurpose ha, they sure can get spendy.

[@yankey4]

+BCtruck, rebuild, repair,repurpose AMEN AMEN!!

[@jedidiah5131]

At 57 I am that young guy...my neighbor is 82 and still splitting wood by hand, he makes me feel old.

[@thefirewooddoctor]

Any tips for splitting small, knotty pine from 5-12 inches in diameter?

[@lincolnengland3596]

Good Video, thanks. I would take the burred over edges off your wedges with a grinder....if they fly off when you hammer them they fly like bullets.......

[@LifeinFarmland]

Fantastic tip and point. I finally got around to doing that not that long ago and really glad I did! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpCUk3ePe8aLY5o Than k you!

[@lincolnengland3596]

Thanks mate....I'm not trying be a smart ass but I'd hate for you to find out the hard way.....

[@ninja5672]

I heard a story that someone died that way. the metal fragment went between his ribs, into his heart.

[@dniesiobedzki]

Could you do a video on the best way to sharpen your chainsaw?

[@frankburns8871]

What's that jam playing? I wanna say Cocaine Blues, but I have a feeling that's not quite right. Anyway, if I used as much firewood as you do, I'd def. use the splitter. Might want to hand-split some just for the exercise still even then, though. For the amount I use, it's all hand-split, for the exercise and because I enjoy it. I could see it getting old quick doing multiple cords, though.

[@bfairey1]

great tips then you soo much

[@rudeboz5486]

I always wear a pair of rigger boots with steel toe caps to protect my feet and my ankles !

[@Drinks-and-finger-food]

Is wood required or that is optional....

[@MrTangent]

Drinks and Finger Food Wood isn’t required, but styrofoam cups stacked in the shape of Charlton Heston are.

[@jacekkowalski2192]

Hi. It's easier to split seasoned or fresh wood?

[@MrZipperhead16]

Definitely, a tire screwed to your splitting block. No more picking up or chasing wood.

[@Row389]

thanks for tips stay safe

[@Row389]

stay safe from covid -19

[@timberray9572]

A 4way head on youre log splitter will triple the productivity of that machine. Keep up the good work.

[@LifeinFarmland]

+Ray Duerksen I have been looking for a good solution. This video you can see things didn't go so well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJ7YhIStnbWKa9k

[@Lanninglongarmmowing]

My tip for splitting firewood is to: 1. buy a log splitter. 2. use the log splitter. lol. Save those curly pieces for the camp fire.

[@CaliforniaCarpenter7]

I dunno, I've always used a hydraulic and I've switched over to splitting by hand. For soft wood it's gotta be about five times faster. Knotty pieces and crotch cuts get tossed in my 'splitter pile' though. To each his own I guess.

[@ToddReuterOutdoors]

1:07 - beautiful sight. Look at all of that wood to split!

[@indrekkpringi]

Fiskars X27 If you haven't tried one you're way behind the times Also Fiskars 8 lb Iso Core splitting maul I have both: get them

[@WitzEndd]

Good tips!

[@LifeinFarmland]

+Witz End Thanks bud. Any luck with the internet?

[@WitzEndd]

They came out and tweaked with the frequencies thinking that would fix it. So far, no... Lol

[@bear9923]

GOOD MUSIC

[@rippon77]

Music: Cocaine Blues?? Think I got it: Folsom prison bluse

[@marymadalenem2351]

Nice video, but you didn't show why you have the other tools with you, and how you use them. just saying. Many Blessings.

[@Ungovernable74]

Great video. I'm guilty of the sandal thing. I'm a dummy.

[@LifeinFarmland]

+Carolina Prepper ha, Or really quick

[@Living-The-Dream]

👍

[@toycollector10]

Always wear safety glasses. A friend learned the hard way, got a splinter deep into his eyeball. Nasty!

[@voxpopuli905]

Thats ash....its easy to split

[@grahammcfadyenhill9555]

Over three minutes in before the first tip...and show, don't just tell.

[@79pejeperro]

Tips for you. Don´t cut so long rounds. Don´t store them like that, they will easily fall and hurt you. Sharpen that maul. Protect the axe handleand sharpen the axe. Grind the wedges wide end.

[@jennparker1229]

This dude must have a tiny stove bc he is splitting them so small

[@vittoriorabagliati8532]

are you sponsored by a saw company? It seems you are.

[@alexllc2958]

That is not by hand 😂!