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It’s nice to picture yourself chopping firewood like a lumberjack–deftly swinging an axe through log rounds to cut perfectly sized pieces. That said, it's simply not how it happens. For most of us, ...

With temperatures dropping in the Northern Hemisphere, this is the time of year when many people start processing firewood for the coming winter months. For the city folks, that means chopping a tree ...

If you've ever faced down a stack of wood needing to be cut for winter, you know the value of an efficient and powerful log splitter. While you may be fully capable of hacking away at the stack using ...

This is the American CLS Highboy! The American CLS highboy is going to be your first step into the firewood business that ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of 29,560 log splitters in the U.S. with an additional 4,690 sold in Canada. The log splitter’s hydraulic cylinder rod can come off the ...

Know the types: Electric, gas, hydraulic, manual, and kinetic splitters each fit different needs, from small indoor jobs to large outdoor logs. Match power to task: Homeowners often choose under 15 ...

In addition to the usual power and hand tools you'd expect to find at a hardware store, hardware chain Harbor Freight also stocks a lot of heavier-duty equipment for tasks like small-scale tree and ...

Kinetic technology is the wave of the future when it comes to log splitting. Instead of using hydraulics as most log splitters do, kinetic log splitters use a hefty flywheel system that stores energy ...

As cordless tools have matured, they’ve come to include larger equipment like chainsaws, lawn mowers, and snowblowers. But they’re not stopping there—the category is constantly expanding to include ...

Wood. Humans have burned it for to heat their homes for thousands of years. It’s truly a renewable source of energy. While it may not be the most efficient or green method to warm a space, it ...