If a man knows how to chop wood - he will not be lost anywhere!
They say that they used to determine which peasanthouse-building, by the way he goes for a hunt, he can eat logs of wood. Hunting now no (all the game polilitki scared). As for food, for sure: do not feed our muzhik with bread, just give us something to eat. But to chop wood - from hunting, from the table and from the stove you will not call. Is that something to heat the stove. Pokryahitit displeased, and will go for the first time with an ax to get acquainted. Further - as in the verses: "Once or twice a log, three or four on the knee." There was a house - there was a trauma center.
And who knows where fate will abandon you. Well, to freeze alive, or what? Netushki! The man has been waving an ax since the very time he invented it. Go, my dear, and you wake - and you will warm yourself, and others for heating and cooking for food. Only how and where to wave - you need to know, and the skill will eventually come.
The ax for firewood must first of all beserviceable, and sit on the hatchet like glue, and not hang out. Must be heavy, but not heavy, with a handle not very long. On the eve of the spear it is advised to lower it into the water so that the ax handle is swollen and the ax is firmly held. Although, if you have to resort to this tool, it is better to think about replacing the ax handle. Those who have never before had to chop firewood, it is better to wave them idly, get used to the move, to gravity, find a place on the handle so that your fingers grab it completely.
One ax, however, is small - a cleaver is still needed, heavy, with a long handle. He can easily cope with large chocks, and you can make them with a simple ax.
No special grinding is required either for the ax or for the cleaver. And in general, you do not need to sharpen them practically. All the salt is not what to prick, but how to chop wood.
Put a block on the block. Take the cleaver with both hands, closer to the bottom of the ax handle to provide a larger lever. Legs spread wider than shoulders - more stability, less chance of injury. Kill it abruptly and quickly, with all your strength. After the strike, the block will either split, or not. If the stuck cleaver formed a gap in the chump, it can be extended with a sledge hammer. If there is no crevice, repeat the blow. Falling under the feet of chocks and chips discard, so as not to interfere.
The more chunks of a knot, the harder it isto split it. Do not waste time and energy. If there are more than three big knots in the chump from different sides, simply throw it aside. Time will remain - return to it.
Take hold of the ax, properly hold the log - the base of the thumb, and not the finger itself. At the same time, remove all the other fingers from the log.
For harvesting the best firewood that does not burntoo fast, the logs should be 7-10 cm thick. To get them, split the block into two plaques, then - into the quatrains, octagons and so on, until you get the right size.
The easiest way to chop wood is dry or frozen. There is no need for a fluke - let the prepared logs so far dry up.
Finally - advice. Do not dream of it especially while chopping wood. Vaughn, the hero Celentano waved his ax when he was drawn to a woman, - and what happened?
