If you have stacked more firewood than you have split, you already know the truth: the slowest part of the job is the splitter. I spent the last three months running five kinetic log splitters through oak, maple, ash, and pine rounds, timing cycles on a stopwatch and counting how many cords I cleared before […]

Last October, I spent a full weekend with a splitting maul trying to process three cords of red oak for the winter. By Sunday evening, my back was wrecked, my maul handle had a crack in it, and I had barely finished a third of the pile. That was the moment I started hunting for […]