Not a good idea to chop logs back to back. Easy to smack the person behind you with your axe!

shiitake said:
Not a good idea to chop logs back to back. Easy to smack the person behind you with your axe!

Easiest way to turn into The Three Stooges.

crayontail01 said:
Easiest way to turn into The Three Stooges.

You know how it is. You lift the axe overhead to swing it, end up clocking the other guy with the blunt side. And then whether or not the scene devolves into slap fighting then and there, chances are the axe blade spins around on the haft so the log just gets the blunt side too. Or else the blade just falls off entirely.
If only there was an easier way.

I'm about to talk about axes.
TLDR: The scene above isn't realistic, and that's okay. Nobody comes to porn for historic realism, and stone axes are an extremely outdated technology.

The above scene is almost perfect for metal tools (axe shape and safety concerns only). Metal and stone tools are very different, because the materials aren't interchangable. You won't find stone saws outside of The Flintstones, and as a consequence you wouldn't have nicely squared-off logs for splitting.
The axes themselves lose points for having chipped edges (prone to shattering) rather than ground and polished, but gain points for being seated in a hole in the shaft of the handle (albeit, the shape is wrong). There are lots of ways stone axes were attached to handles, but the above method was popular for tens of thousands of years of our history.
Our neolithic ancestors had easier ways of getting firewood than the labor-intensive process of chopping whole tree trunks. More common would have been thinner branches, maybe the thickness of your wrist. Deadwood is preferred due to ease of collection and processing.
If they did need to split larger logs for one reason or another, they'd do it by hammering a number of wedges into the piece of timber, forcing the wood apart bit by bit. Need to shape tough wood? Carve it away with a celt (stone chisel) slowly, or carefully burn it away with hot embers and blown air.

invisible_gent said:
I'm about to talk about axes.
TLDR: The scene above isn't realistic, and that's okay. Nobody comes to porn for historic realism, and stone axes are an extremely outdated technology.

The above scene is almost perfect for metal tools (axe shape and safety concerns only). Metal and stone tools are very different, because the materials aren't interchangable. You won't find stone saws outside of The Flintstones, and as a consequence you wouldn't have nicely squared-off logs for splitting.
The axes themselves lose points for having chipped edges (prone to shattering) rather than ground and polished, but gain points for being seated in a hole in the shaft of the handle (albeit, the shape is wrong). There are lots of ways stone axes were attached to handles, but the above method was popular for tens of thousands of years of our history.
Our neolithic ancestors had easier ways of getting firewood than the labor-intensive process of chopping whole tree trunks. More common would have been thinner branches, maybe the thickness of your wrist. Deadwood is preferred due to ease of collection and processing.
If they did need to split larger logs for one reason or another, they'd do it by hammering a number of wedges into the piece of timber, forcing the wood apart bit by bit. Need to shape tough wood? Carve it away with a celt (stone chisel) slowly, or carefully burn it away with hot embers and blown air.

Bro, what you're saying is very profound.

shiitake said:
Not a good idea to chop logs back to back. Easy to smack the person behind you with your axe!

We need a supervisor on this worksite XD!

invisible_gent said:
I'm about to talk about axes.
TLDR: The scene above isn't realistic, and that's okay. Nobody comes to porn for historic realism, and stone axes are an extremely outdated technology.

The above scene is almost perfect for metal tools (axe shape and safety concerns only). Metal and stone tools are very different, because the materials aren't interchangable. You won't find stone saws outside of The Flintstones, and as a consequence you wouldn't have nicely squared-off logs for splitting.
The axes themselves lose points for having chipped edges (prone to shattering) rather than ground and polished, but gain points for being seated in a hole in the shaft of the handle (albeit, the shape is wrong). There are lots of ways stone axes were attached to handles, but the above method was popular for tens of thousands of years of our history.
Our neolithic ancestors had easier ways of getting firewood than the labor-intensive process of chopping whole tree trunks. More common would have been thinner branches, maybe the thickness of your wrist. Deadwood is preferred due to ease of collection and processing.
If they did need to split larger logs for one reason or another, they'd do it by hammering a number of wedges into the piece of timber, forcing the wood apart bit by bit. Need to shape tough wood? Carve it away with a celt (stone chisel) slowly, or carefully burn it away with hot embers and blown air.

I really enjoyed reading this!! Thank you for the great facts invis gent!

crayontail01 said:
Easiest way to turn into The Three Stooges.

it might turn into a Slaps-dick down the road XD

spoogiehowl said:
it might turn into a Slaps-dick down the road XD

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