Firewood

[grampahol]

If you feel creative and don't own either an axe, splitter or maul you can always cut wooden wedges (hardwood) with a table saw and use a sledge hammer to split wood. I do that all the time here. Anything I need to split I leave outside for a year or so till it begins to dry and split anyway. A wooden wedge and hammer almost always does the trick, but I only cut enough to cook outside when the mood strikes.
You guys wouldn't believe how much fun it is to cook over an open pit here when the outside temperature is about 98 degrees. There's nothing like the taste of sweat flavored steaks or whatever you're cooking outside in the summertime.. Yes, dinner is fantastic after a bout of heat stroke! 
Hey, if you live in the south cook with crape myrtle wood. It burns real slow and hot and also great for making your own bows and arrows if you're into that kind of thing. I have a nice long piece well suited to make a bow if anyone wants it. it's about 12' long, about 4" wide and split down the middle. Crape myrtle is great bow material.. (It's been dried for about 3 years out of the rain.) It has great bending characteristics.  Anyone ever make a homemade bow other than the little kiddie bows we all used to make playing cowboys and injuns?