As our weather turns colder, this homesteader’s heart and mind turns to managing the firewood pile. That includes cutting and managing a lot of kindling. I started last time with a discussion of the importance of kindling in the post The Firewood Supply: Kindling. I’ll continue those thoughts here.
Cutting kindling is finer, lighter work than splitting rounds. While a full sized splitting ax works, I prefer a child’s ax, or even a hatchet (see A Child’s Ax Can Do a Man’s Job).
(If you can’t see my short video above, try viewing it on YouTube, here. The commenter who suggested using tongs to hold the wood has likely never cut kindling in his life—one would never get the job finished!.)
