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I love how all of your videos teach me something new every time and most importantly they teach you how to accomplish these tasks and skills WITHOUT HURTING YOURSELF. Thats the most important thing in survival...to not hurt yourself and worsen the situation. Love your channel! Keep up the good work!
Option 1 is very obvious, I feel silly I've never used it. Any time I've chopped wood I'd still be standing them up as the pieces got smaller and smaller lol trying not to cut off my fingers. Learned something new thanks
You make it look easy. You'd also be surprised how small of a piece of wood you can split with your maul if you center your swing above your head. Of course it has to stand on its own though.
I like the way my dad used to do it swing the hatchet and see if you are fast enough to move your hand and still hit the kindling 🤣🤣 he still has 9 fingers...
Its faster if you hold your hand half way down the piece of wood you are trying to split and chopping down into it like a normal log. You just need to let go before ur axe gets half way
Growing up we didn't have Heating other than the fireplace so chopping kindling with something that I did daily. All those years from about age eight and onward I'm holding it with my left hand and chopping it with my right never once that I ever come close to getting hurt. I don't understand this requires any method other than that. It's not like the hatchet is super sharp. Also when you get down to the last few pieces you just move your hand away a fraction of a second before the hatchet hits the wood.
Don't turn the axe with the first method. You will weaken the handle at the eye. Instead embed the axe as it goes through the kindling and into the log. Then pull the kindling piece to the side abd split it. That directs the force to the head of the are and the stump and not the handle which can break over time.
I think his is a Fiskers or a Gerber. Tractor Supply probably has a similar one. I'm sure it's just as good or better. I've never had one. I'm just not crazy about how the head is attached.
He's showing the safest and most efficient way of splitting kindling. Holding the piece or holding the piece is NOT safe at all. You can say I've always done it and no problem. You just haven't done it your way enough. Go ahead and get very comfortable holding the piece of wood to where you don't even think about it and a accident will come. If you do this a lot. It doesn't matter how eye -hand coordinate you or how fast your reflexes are. The first distraction or piece of wood with wierd grain or just trying to look impressive in front of someone....you'll need stitches , another finger , have life long nerve damage or worse. I go out of the reaches of cell service for a week at a time a few times a year. I've only had 1 accident. It was from splitting kindling with a very sharp hatchet. I used to hold the wood near the base and move my hand as the hatchet hit the wood. The grain ran off the side of the wood and my ha d was hit and split open ....not bad enough to make me leave. I almost thought it was and i probably should have gotten a couple of stitches. As stupid as i was , no ignorant is what I was , I had had a very good first aid kit. I disinfected the small but deep wound , bandaged and taped it. I stayed 2 or 3 more days but being paranoid about an infection took away from the trip a bit. It could have been much worse though. That first method is what I used and takes a lot less energy and is quicker. You can use the energy for something else other than chasing down kindling when it flies everywhere. I go deep in the mountains for the trout , beautiful and relaxing scenery......not to hurt myself with ignorance.
or don't re-invent the mouse trap and just split your kindling as has been done for hundreds of years. hold kindling at its base so u don't get cut and just tap hatchet into wood so it seats, then pick up the hatchet with kindling stuck to it. strick kindling on your splitting block. do this as many times as needed to get the size kindling you want. simple.
@@davidarwood6264 you're right. I came up on a fire pit yesterday where someone was trying to burn freshly cut, unsplit hemlock with the bark still on it. Lol
@@davidarwood6264 come back when you chopped some kindling. Every 1mbecile with a smartphone is a survival expert these days... Take them out on a hike and they need 5 mountain rescueers and a dog to bring them back down... 1000s of dollars of equipment on them, but not two neurons between them.
