I love splitting wood. It is fun, makes me stronger, and helps my family. Splitting and chopping are not the same things. Splitting means going with the grain of the wood, chopping means going against the grain of the wood. You split firewood, but chop down a tree. As you can see, splitting wood is cool. Let’s find out more about it.
First of all, I love it when the wood explodes in half because it makes a giant sound when I split it. Whack! The wood flies apart in opposite directions, up to 4 feet away. Sometimes it spins like a Frisbee, almost hitting my dad. Splitting wood is primal, I feel like people have been doing it for a very long time.
Splitting wood makes my body stronger because it involves a lot of exercise. I use a hatchet for kindling and a splitting ax for logs. Some wood is easy to split, some is hard. Either way, it takes a lot of effort to swing the ax. I also get exercise by carrying logs and boxes of kindling to the wood-burning stove. I love it so much that my dad bought me a new hatchet, forged in Sweden!
We split and burn wood to keep the house warm. It feels good, like radiant heat from the sun. In the winter, my mom cooks soup and stew on the stove. We save money by burning wood instead of buying gas and electricity every month. I sometimes find soft, white grubs in rotten logs. The neighbor’s chickens go on a scavenger hunt for the grubs and devour them. We also make Swedish fire torches, a 400-year-old way to use firewood without wasting it. The torch is made of split logs that have been bundled together vertically. It can burn for a whole day.
In conclusion, I think you should try splitting wood. It’s a lot of fun to get outdoors in the sun, you’ll get strong by swinging the ax and carrying wood, and it provides warmth for the family. I can imagine myself splitting wood and making kindling for a long time.