Uploaded March 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Using my axe for splitting kindling for the woodstove morning fire start up. This kindling is prepared the day before so that in the morning I just roll out of my sleeping bag and get the fire roaring in the woodstove. Wood is dead and dry balsam fir, which was in good supply. It splits very easy. But my favourite boreal firewood is black spruce and jack pine. This is a base camp so the snow is well set up and hard. In softer snow, the swing of the axe has to be faster to use the inertia of the block to keep it on top of the snow.
Axe is an old Snow & Nealley 28 inch handle, 2 1/4 pound head.
Using my axe for splitting kindling for the woodstove morning fire start up. This kindling is prepared the day before so that in the morning I just roll out of my sleeping bag and get the fire roaring in the woodstove. Wood is dead and dry balsam fir, which was in good supply. It splits very easy. But my favourite boreal firewood is black spruce and jack pine. This is a base camp so the snow is well set up and hard. In softer snow, the swing of the axe has to be faster to use the inertia of the block to keep it on top of the snow.
Axe is an old Snow & Nealley 28 inch handle, 2 1/4 pound head.
