Hey, not my idea- I saw a video about it and 'saw the goodness' of someone else's idea. :-) Just passing it along.
Getting, working (bucking, cutting, splitting, stacking and general hauling) firewood is great exercise and it is something a person gets better at with time. Unfortunately where I live, there is no public access to firewood cutting as there is in most states and I do not have any access to significant private woodland. So I buy my wood cut and split; going price is about $180 / $200 cord and I have been burning about 4 cord / year. But now I gots a new- fangled hybrid woodstove and am finding that not only does it wring more BTU's from a pound of wood but it burns cleaner than I thought possible. Of course I have made a few mods. and fitted a farkle or two so far....
Brian
Good idea on the tire, Brian. I'll give that a try next time I'm choppin.
I got pretty good at splitting wood with my method above. I had several logs that were larger in diameter than my chopping block in the pic above. Once I hosted those bad boys onto my block I started splitting them starting close to the edges, 'pealing' the outer layers off first. I was in the zone and I must have looked like a Samurai Lumberjack because the large logs stayed put on the block and I just repositioned my feet and continued slitting. I was able to take care of these large logs without even having to break my rhythm.