Contact wood splitting

[Pine]

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After seeing a few "Survival experts" on television cut themselves with a hatchet while splitting wood I felt compelled to post this here.
It's very simple and your not going to hurt yourself.
That's important especially if you are in a survival situation.
You just line up the hatchet on the wood like the picture  and smack them both on a log or block of wood.
It's not being a wimp to do things safe. And besides that, this is easiest to do so why try to chop down from the end while holding the wood in your opposite hand.

[hickstick]

yup.  I cringe every time I see someone on a youtube vid doing the 'hold til the last second and let go' technique. I make my own maple syrup so I am constantly splitting wood down to small sizes, so I do this technique a lot.