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Use A Bungee Cord To Chop Wood More Efficiently

7:00AM November 15, 2009 | Jason Fitzpatrick

Chopping wood is a satisfying, yet laborious task. Give yourself an efficiency boost with this simple bungee-cord organisation video tip.

Photo by Muffet.

When chopping large diameter logs into more manageable and fireplace-friendly sizes, it can be a pain to keep all the pieces upright as you split them. Check out the video below to see how the simple addition of a bungee cord means you’ll spend more time chopping and less time setting up logs to be split.

Bungee cord or not, that guy is a wood-chopping machine. Have a tip or trick related to chopping wood or heating your home with it? Let’s hear about it in the comments.

Splitting Firewood [via Re-Nest]

Comments

  • Arran

    November 15, 2009 at 10:14 PM

    Nice if you have timber with a perfectly straight grain but this wouldn’t work with the trees I get around here. I can’t recall every chopping a piece of wood that came apart that cleanly.
    Secondly, I thought chopping directly on the ground caused the axe to go into the direct when the wood split, thus dulling it. Is that not the case?

    • Adam

      November 16, 2009 at 8:33 AM

      You’re right on all counts.

      1: Australian wood is much harder than american wood, and most gum doesn’t have a straight grain. I’d love to see this guy try the same thing with some red gum!

      2: Never split wood on the ground, you will stuff your axe. Thsi guy is splitting a very tall round, which would be fins in an open fire, i can tell you that the sections he is cutting won’t fin in a slow combustion heater like a coonara, unless it’s a really big one. if he had of been using a smaller sound, he would have hit the ground.

      you too can split wood like a machine, if you are happy burning Pine and are happy to have your flue catch on fire..

  • warcroft

    November 16, 2009 at 8:38 AM

    That old man would kill me in a street fight.

    • Cral

      November 16, 2009 at 9:41 PM

      warcroft
      No shit Einstein he has an axe!!

      I was hoping for some rubber band wood chopping machine here.
      Not some rope and an Occy strap device to be safe. This the internet FFS.

  • ronk

    November 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    Gotta agree with him about the Fiskars axe though. It works a treat even on Aussie wood. Once you’ve used one of them, you just won’t be bothered with any other…

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