Maybe in some parts of the world, splitting wood is easy, but I grew up with the adage "Split your own wood and warm yourself twice" – once when you split it and again when you burn it. This stubborn piece of oak had me going. In fact, I had buried an inch of a wedge into the chopping block before I realized it had gone all the way through. Then, it took some work to remove the wedges so I could flip the hunk over and work at it from the other side.

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