Slide action wood splitter - GIF

[marksbug]

ditto. but at least she is persistent at not splitting it...heck I bet she could go for hours if we let her.

[suther51]

I did something similar to this many years ago, I think that I was around 16 at the time. What happened was that I hooked a low hanging washing line with the hatchet, instead of swinging down, the washing line caused it to swing backwards ultimately hitting me on the forehead, I literally saw stars, and still have a "dent" in my forehead from the blow.

My uncle warned me as a 13 year old not to split wood under the washing line. He knew of a case where the victim was killed using a double bit ax

[marksbug]

I dont have to worry about spliting wood..my fireplace is gass... and my back,shoulder, arm,ankle neck,brains wont let me even pick up a ax to swing. but i have done it in years past...decades past..multiple decades past.

[Toolmaker51]

Lol Mark; longer you think about it, farther back it gets.

[marksbug]

oh so true!!! just dont ever thing about things like this too long as you may find yourself convincing your self that you can still do it.....witch you probably can but the next week or so ir gonna be a painful one.

[Hoosiersmoker]

An old farmer my father knew had my brothers and I out to help clear a tree line he had cut the previous year for firewood and paid us a few dollars. I didn't realize what a joker he was but he sent us to a tree line to split the wood and load it in the wagon to take to his house. We didn't know but he had gone earlier to that area and put about 4 or 5 pieces of newly cut ironwood, ready to split. We were using about a 9 lb. splitting maul and went through the walnut and oak that was there without many issues, except knots and such, and grabbed one of the weird looking logs to split. I took a windmill swing with everything I had and the maul went in maybe 1/4" and popped back out. I have 3 brothers, we were all in our teens and we wore ourselves out trying to split those logs. He pulled up a little bit later and yelled at us for taking so long to split all the wood. He kept a straight face for a few minutes then just busted out laughing and let us in on the joke. I was sore for a week trying to split that stuff by hand. When we got back to the house one of his hands was using an ancient hand operated splitter on some well seasoned ironwood, which was his favorite heating wood. Lesson well learned! Good Times!