The Ax Book by Dudley Cook

Author:Dudley Cook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2020-01-13T00:00:00+00:00

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Big Ones into Little Ones

WHEN YOU HAVE FINALLY TRUCKED, HAULED, OR CARRIED ALL YOUR WOOD HOME, pile it on sticks running crosswise so the good firewood is well separated from the dampness of the ground. If there are trees, posts, stakes, or other woodpiles to keep the ends of the new pile vertical, fine, but that is not essential. With straight-ended piles you can fit more wood into a smaller area, because you can stack it higher. However, unless you have already split and cut every stick to size in the woodlot, the pile you make now is not the final stack and niceties can be omitted. For the ordinary case, this stack is just the size-reduction depot.

If you work entirely without saws, an important order of work is reversed at this point. You must split the wood to use-thickness before you chop it up into use-length. The reason for this is that each piece must be split into thinner lengths that will permit subsequent chopping to length without excessive effort, time or waste. Chopping thinner sticks is vastly more efficient than chopping heavier pieces because the thinner ones can often be severed with a stroke or two.

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