It's a nice day to get out and split up a mess of firewood. Yeah, I still do it the old fashioned way! 
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Beautiful landscape.
It is. I'm in a big wide valley and that is our mountain range to the east. Our mountain range to the west is even more beautiful. However the road to it is closed for the winter. I'll get some photos when the road opens for memorial day weekend.
I've discovered that a sledge hammer coupled with a splitting wedge is a must-have, especially for green logs.. then finish it up with the axe
Absolutely and a nice splitting mall is nice to have on hand. This is dry and splits real nice and easy with a double-bit axe.
I should've started with a splitting maul instead of only having a double-bit axe... that seems like it would've simplified things a bit now.
Only recently did I graduate to also having the wedge and hammer, and it was instantly a "yeah I'm never living without this" combo
They're real handy with real knotty wood.
All we have around here is softwoods, so I don't need them often, I haven't touched a wedge or maul in years. I did spy, on my last firewood expedition a couple of standing dead Douglas Firs trees I'm going to harvest, I'll need them for that knotty wood, it's the hardest of the soft woods around here.
I bet! I may wind up with one before next winter, depending on needs and budget. Right now it falls into the "nice to have" bucket, and there's a litany of things currently in the "need to have/do" bucket.
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