How to Chop Wood for a Bonfire

Video Transcript

"All right, let's talk about the wood that we want to chop. If you’ve got wood that you've maybe bought from somebody and they've dropped it off, and they are just big logs like this and they haven't been split, and you are going to have to split them yourself, one little tip that I can show you for making your own kenneling or even smaller pieces is by chopping it effectively. What you want to do is a lot of times when people hit these they'll try and just hit them right in the middle and split them. And that can be difficult sometimes especially if there is a knot in the wood, it splits rather difficultly; you'll have to do it a few times possibly. Depending on if you are using a monster mall or if you are using a regular ax or whatever you might have or a hatchet. But what you want to do if you want to trim off small pieces, because you don't have any small pieces and they are easier to lay. Is just aim more towards the outer edge. And let me just show you what I mean; we'll get it set up here. Always make sure that nobody's around you; you know you want to be safety conscious always. So make sure nobody is around you, behind you when you are swinging. And always wear safety goggles and eye protection, ok? So we're going to go ahead and see if we can't split this one or two times, this might take us a couple of times. And again, this one does have a knot in it, so. And that's what I mean by splitting it off, if you can see how nicely that came off and how we did that. So this will make for a nice piece for you. Not so much kenneling, you can even split it down further than that, but you need to be careful when you get too small and when you are swinging that hatchet."