I used them both before I bought, and ended up buying the SS. It swings like a much lighter ax than it is and packs more punch than the Pro. If I...
I've burned a lot of oak over the years that I split and stacked the previous spring. Mostly, if the splits are smallish, it's cross-stacked and...
It's the north anywhere. Same here near Ely, same in Siberia, same at 10,000 feet in the Rockies. Farther from the equator, bigger and more sudden...
I'm not tall, so the 28-inch handle is just right for me. The design of the head of the Fiskars SS, and the way it balances, allow me to get a better...
+1 I'll make sure that, out of the 9-10 cords I split, some of those 10-inch rounds get quartered, but the majority of them get halved. As...
We had a VERY warm April here, but May has so far been cold and rainy. We hit 16 degrees last night when the skies cleared after a few days of rain,...
It's a basswood. Decent campfire or woodstove starter wood. Lots of crackles, lots of flame. For a minute or so. :)
I suppose we ended up with an inch or so here, but not much stuck, and it'll be melted by afternoon. Another night in the mid 20s, then one more...
Welcome to the calm of hearth.com. Not quite as exciting over here as it is on AS. ;-P[/quote] Good. Now I've got a place to party and a place...
I'm done with my own firewood cutting. Total is about 9 cord of red maple, white birch and black ash, with ash making up the majority. Another day's...
Yes, red maple. Not quite the BTUs of sugar maple, but it's about the best we get in this neck of the woods. Makes a nice even burn with good coals.
The older I get, the more I realize I can't spare any surviving brain cells in my efforts just to stay standing when I'm walking or cutting with...
It looks like we're going to replace our very old Kuuma with the Kuuma 100. We really like what we see and hear about them (including comments on...
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