My tool set for processing firewood.
Missing from the photo are my chainsaw and its manual counterpart, the crosscut saw.
I’ll have to update the photo later.
From right to left … (isn’t that how we all process?)
hatchet (old friend) probably a pound and a quarter head, for kindling splintering and light-duty splitting.
hand splitting maul, 3 1/2 pound head, for light-to-medium splitting taking standard split wood to small stove size.
small axe for light-to-medium trimming, limbing and splitting.
axe, another old friend, to trim, limb, cut, chop and split.
double-bit axe, a good, old one, new to me for extended cutting.
splitting maul, a real one for turning Montana evergreen rounds into standard split firewood.
wedge pair and sledgehammer are the ticket for hardwood splitting like what I dealt with heating in Northern California. Oak rounds, other than small ones, do not pop open with a splitting maul. A pair of wedges driven through with full overhand swings of a sledgehammer are what they need. The reward is hot-burning, long-lasting heat out of each split log.
