Just ‘getting more STW’ in my ways, and sorting out a woodburner..

What’s the deal with small hatchets for chopping/splitting for kindling??

They can vary from £10 to £110 and beyond…

Anyone recommend a decent hand hatchet for splitting small logs/palletts for kindling please??!!

DrP

Do you want something nice or something cheap?

This would be ideal for splitting small logs and kindling. With a bit of snading and some linseed oil it’ll look and feel lovely. Can be found cheap on amazon I think.

or if you want to go cheap and chearful something like this will be fine for kindling, and probably more suitable for breaking up pallets.

I just got a cheapo £7 jobbie from the tool shop in the Metro Centre, then sharpened it with the angle grinder.

It’s for chopping small bits of wood.

I picked up a little Fiskars axe in canada. It’s been comlpletely brilliant.

Cheers…
Went for this..

Now for my revenge spree, I mean wood cutting..

DrP

The whole point of buying a woodburner is to have an excuse to buy axes and live out your Lumberjack/Nick Offerman fantasies. So buy yourself a nice one!

More importantly, have you grown a beard yet DrP?

If not, you shouldn’t really be using an axe unsupervised…

I shouldn’t really use anything sharp unsupervised…

DrP

Chopping sticks? £10 jobby will be as good as anything else. I find that pallets need a chainsaw otherwise they’re a PITA.
YMMV

Edit: the one you’ve gone for looks just the job DrDeath.

For kindling, I’m on the “anything cheap will do” side. You’re just splitting with the grain, hitting a nail is the only issue.

This was mine:

http://www.qwikfast.co.uk/shop/silverline-hardwood-shaft-hatchet-1-5lb-ha68/

Not the most beautiful tool (handle was a bit damaged and splintery in one place) but it works fine.

Jeez, DrP, you put my own sharps-derived injuries to shame! 😯

My hatchet is just a £10 job from the tool shed, and after 5 years and no sharpening, still works great.

Personally I have 2 from Gränsfors Bruk

Proper axes and been making them over 100 years.

However may be a little OTT for some smashing pallets up.

Bream – Member

Personally I have 2 from Gränsfors Bruk

Proper axes and been making them over 100 years.

However may be a little OTT for some smashing pallets up.

I wouldn’t go near a pallet with my Gransfors or my chainsaw. Sledge hammer and a pry bar.

I thought it was ‘I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay’

I’m going to need a bigger axe…

DrP

I now understand the whole hipster thing. It has developed from wood burning stove ownership.

I’m going to need a bigger axe…

That’s not your new rustic window cill then?

I now understand the whole hipster thing. It has developed from wood burning stove ownership

Yes?

DrP

Most of the Hipsters I know wouldn’t go outside and dirty their hands with something nasty and sharp 🙂

with that lot youll buy a bigger axe , realise its the wrong toolfor the job

buy a small bush saw and realise its the wrong tool for the job

and then youll buy a chainsaw.

skip to step 3 if you plan on having wood like that often.

I’ve got a £10 B&Q job which has been working fine for a number of years.

skip to step 3 if you plan on having wood like that often.

Have access to one… but will need to split it.. I suppose my hatchet may do..

DrP

splitter maul might make a decent job of that.
Salvage one of the chunkier cuts for a splitting platform.

probably as per t_r says though, if only because it’ll probably be a bit ‘sticky’ for a plain old bush saw. And find a friendly person to borrow a trailer from as well..

Up round here there are several cooperages selling whisky barrel offcuts, by the ton, the calorific value in them is terrific!!

DrP – Member

Have access to one…

DrP

Oh

Dear

God…..

kcal – Member

splitter maul might make a decent job of that.

A maul for that? 🙄 Cut to length you could split that with a brush hook (not that I would). The splitting hatchet I linked to would be more than adequate.

An Axe to Grind pdf and the video

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz3rs-eaN3E[/video]

Never use a sharp axe

Toolstation do a hickory shaft maul and small axe, which is ideal for splitting kindling, circa £17. I’ve split many tons of hardwood with them, then you can decide if you want to buy a designer axe.

When did functional become a synonym for homoerotic?

http://www.drpidgeon.co.uk/store/p7/McMinns_functional_and_clinical_anatomy.html

trailmoggy – Member

Never use a sharp axe

What?

If Dr P and WCA ever go out on a bivi night together the local PCT are going to call an emergency and cancel all leave!

Never mind what axe, I need your open fire calzone recipe please.