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rhb in reply to @ltc

I was splitting kindling wood down further to very small thickness for my tiny woodstove. It was hard to balance them on end... steadied a bit of wood I was splitting with my left hand, just so I could engage the knife to then "baton" it through without a mallet once hand removed. I'd done this carefully a few times but this particular piece split through immediately with very little force = knife into finger quite deep & smaller cut to thumb.

(I changed back to resting my left palm over the knife instead to help it balance, accepting that sometimes the kindling will topple but ensuring my fingers should never be under the blades direction of travel.)

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dancing james in reply to @rhb

I tend to lay the wood flat and then use the axe along the grain of the wood. It saves me from swinging a blade toward a hand that is supporting the wood. Otherwise I put a few logs into an old car tyre on top of a wooden chopping block and will then strike end on.

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rhb in reply to @dancing james

These are too small for either of those techniques really. I'm not swinging the knife at first, just gently pressing it into the wood, then swinging the wood down onto a log to split the embedded knife through it.

I like the car tyre tip for bigger stuff, will use ta.

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