I usually split enough kindling to get me through about 80% of the winter. Not the case this year. So today, I went outside and hit the pile for some pine and started splitting. I have to say, winter splitting is really easy. The wood pops apart like nothing. I suppose when it's -4F overnight, everything will be nice and frozen. No bugs, and not sweating. It was a relaxing time by the pile, outside with the Fiskars.
Making kindling can be fun. I've found it is even more fun making it with a hydraulic splitter! Here we tend to use soft maple for kindling.
I think it is fun too. When I run out of it, I make it right at the hearth out of thin splits of poplar, birch or black ash using a hatchet...just watch the fingers, which I do, very earnestly!
