Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s nice to picture yourself chopping firewood like a lumberjack–deftly swinging an axe through log rounds to cut perfectly sized ...

An curved arrow pointing right. This machine chops logs into firewood using a hydraulic press. It is called the Splitmaster and is manufactured by POSCH in Austria. The Splitmaster can exert up to 55 ...

Few methods of home heating are as iconic and rewarding as burning wood—especially if you cut and split it yourself. The hard physical work of splitting firewood is missing from most other heating ...

This quick video demonstrates a clever human-powered device that makes splitting firewood easier by setting an ax into a frame to guide it. Adding a counter weight and a spring allows the log splitter ...

With temperatures dropping in the Northern Hemisphere, this is the time of year when many people start processing firewood for the coming winter months. For the city folks, that means chopping a tree ...

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