southwards I highly recommend saving as much woodsplitting as possible for cold days. First of all, it is fabulously warming exercise – “wood warms twice” is the Thoreau saying – and second, the frost makes the wood brittle. It’s like chopping glass – it always splits when struck, and has none of the elasticity and suppleness wood has in warmer weather. It is true that you can’t keep the snow out of your stacks, but I’m cutting for next year anyway, and that snow will be long forgotten by then.
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