In addition to the usual power and hand tools you'd expect to find at a hardware store, hardware chain Harbor Freight also stocks a lot of heavier-duty equipment for tasks like small-scale tree and ...

Splitting logs for fuel and firewood is an arduous task that mankind has wrestled with for millennia. Modern hydraulic tools have simplified this process, and can now transform a tree into ...

Fecon Inc. has introduced the excavator mounted Log Jaw Wood Splitter to its forestry attachment product line. The Log Jaw is a hydraulic-powered wood splitting attachment that is also made for skid ...

Compared with hydraulic models, the DR RapidFire Log Splitter allows you to split more wood in less time. Traditional log splitters make the job of preparing firewood easier, but they don’t ...

It’s nice to picture yourself chopping firewood like a lumberjack–deftly swinging an axe through log rounds to cut perfectly sized pieces. That said, it's simply not how it happens. For most of us, ...

An inventor from Debert, N.S. hopes a provincial innovation competition will find value in his design for a new, more efficient wood splitter even though manufacturers have so far taken a pass. Walter ...

Wetherbee prefers a splitting maul to an axe, on account of its heavier, less tapered head — it’s less likely to get stuck in knotty wood, she says. Also: a chopping block, and she recommends eye ...

Dead-blow hammers are well-known in the construction industry for minimizing rebound. [Jacob Fischer] is on a mission to bring this concept to splitting axes. Over the course of several months, ...