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.
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.
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.