Be sure to get your tinder, kindling, and firewood ready ahead of time. If you own a fire pit you should stock a supply of ...

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Which kindling splitter is best? If you want to burn wood, it needs to be cut down and split into a manageable size so it fits in your fireplace or fire pit. Using an axe is one way to create kindling ...

If you don’t camp or have a fireplace, then you probably don’t know this, but ... making kindling can be darn difficult. A simple-but-clever new device known as Mr. Quicksplit, however, looks like it ...

The hatchet is the neglected sibling of the survival knife. Once considered essential, it often gets left behind in our current lightweight-or-nothing world. But it shouldn’t be — a solid hatchet can ...

Some people like to experience the outdoors in a way that mimics their lives indoors. They package their food, bring a lantern, a comfortable tent, firewood, and use the outdoors as a nice change of ...

It’s nice to picture yourself chopping firewood like a lumberjack–deftly swinging an axe through log rounds to cut perfectly sized pieces… But that’s just not how it happens. For most of us, manually ...