Making a kindling splitter/cracker

Описание: Update: Sorry, there's almost a minute of nothingness after the video ends. Not sure what I did to get that.


I saw these kindling crackers for sale for over $100 and although I liked the idea, I couldn't justify that sort of money.

https://www.kindlingcracker.com/produ...
or http://amzn.to/2GB6DmY (affiliate link)

It looked fairly straight forward, so I went down to Bunnings and grabbed a little bit of steel and the cheapest hatchet I could find (kind of like this http://amzn.to/2DRL8fM)
I spent just under $20 all up and still have a heap of steel left over.

The hardest part was bending the top piece in to a ring. My sheet metal folder helped, but I'm pretty sure you could get the same result with a hammer and an edge of some sort.
I guess it doesn't even need to be a circle/ring, I was just going off the design I saw.

I was impressed with how well it worked. i've always split kindling with a hatchet, but this gives you a lot more control being able to place the axe exactly where you want to split.



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