As stated in previous reviews, I live in the sticks with a solid multi-fuel burner for heating so I use anthracite nuggets and a lot of wood, both hard and soft. The wood is delivered to me and I then chop a lot of it up and stack it inside by my burner to dry out. I have a variety of hand axes and splitters etc and this is my cheapie "get the job done fast" splitting axe for larger chunks of wood that need cutting up to fit the grate of my burner. This is a decent enough axe, not top of the range and probably will not last forever but it does the job reasonably well and is priced accordingly at around £ 25. B&Q are a long ...  Read the complete review

In films of days long gone, when the King or the Lord of the Manor was sat in his hall, the big feature was the huge open fireplace where great logs would spit and flare to produce a roaring fire to warm the backsides of the great and the good. Few of us have a home that boasts such a feature and, indeed, few of us have homes with open fires any more. At best we have a flame effect gas or electric "fire" that suggests warmth much more than produces it. We were lucky when we moved to our current home: it had an open fire in the lounge although this was fitted with just such a flame effect gas fire. We used it from time to time during the winter ...  Read the complete review