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Split firewood with an axe
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Use a maul on a low block.
A splitting maul, not a felling axe, on a knee-high chopping block. The block saves your back and the edge.
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Read the log first.
Aim through existing cracks and avoid knots. Wood tells you where it wants to open.
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Stand square, measure the drop.
Feet shoulder-wide, arms extended so the edge lands centre-log. A missed swing should hit the block, never your shin.
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Swing with drop, not muscle.
Lift, let gravity work, accelerate only at the end, wrists rolling slightly. Splitting is timing, not force.
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Work the edges of big rounds.
Split slabs off the sides instead of attacking the centre. Big rounds fall apart from the outside in.
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