Parked Here for the Night

Swinging that 10lb axe (that's the head only, doesn't include the handle.) is a nice workout when you do it for a couple hours.

Doesnt seem like 10lbs is that much until you realize you're splitting hardwood and have to keep control of the axe all the way through.

...and gas fireplaces are an insult. Better than those stupid portable ones you can buy at Wally world...those #### things are a slap across the face.

 

be careful before the axe bounces back and creases your forehead again

i dont think the landlord would like me trying to burn wood in this one

 

I use a splitting maul, if you hit the wood in the heart it's usually no big deal to split. I am not sure how heavy my maul is but I do know it's lighter than the 22 lbs sledge I use for driving track pins in heavy equipment. Your right it's all about the swing and control. I have split and carried wood for about 30 years I just always thought it was a hillbilly thang

 

all the hillbillys aren't in the hills
while rebuilding my first house i had tore out the furnace had a coal stove in the basement
and a hole in the floor of the dining room to get heat upstairs

 

Sounds like something I would do. Did y'all ever have a rope swing over a crick

 

Ironically yes. I did at one point. ...I grew up on a small farm in North Ga.

This was only my second time splitting wood. I don't think I did terribly, had I a little more control over where the blade landed though I could've cut it far faster.

Im too #### hard-headed to let that happen. Thing is, you're doing it wrong if that axe goes any direction but down.

And no, if yours is gas... Heh...I've got a story about a relative who didn't know their fireplace was gas though. ...that was a hell of a mess to clean up.

 

out in the marsh at the hunting lodge
the outhouse straddled the tidal creek
so we didn't have to move it every year
real good clamming right there

 

Y'all put your outhouse over the creek? What if the water come up and took it? Crappy clams lol

 

There was a bunch of us boys. Dad taught one to swing right handed the other had to swing left as to stay out of each other's way. I ended up being one that swings left, even though I'm right handed.

 

Cheap way to get a bidet I guess?