+1 to BluDawg. Only other advice is to manage yer woods down to smaller or thinner chunks is a good way to slow feed yer fire efficiently. Picking up an Adze or Maul from yer local True Value, etc. and keeping it sharp with a file and stone is a good way to split it and saves yer back better than using an axe. Also a good way to elevate yer heart rate and help keep all the barbecue and beer Lbs off.
The maul is also a dual use tool - if you have to be gone from the house for a bit, the Spouse or Spousal Equivalent can keep it next to the door for home defense from street creepers, door knocking politicians, and other such vermin. One whack on Chester the Molester will work wonders on his permanent post-incarceration rehabilitation. If she is a bit more on the petite side, I recommend the smaller Mattock, a garden tool surely derived from medieval trench warfare. Just make sure not to put her in the mood to whack you with it by mistake. Corkscrews of the old T handle variety also are a dandy concealed weapon, as are shrimp de-veiners, meat hammers, filet knives, potato peelers, and rolling pins. Spatulas? In the hands of any halfway skilled wife, old Chuck Norris would be in terror of the "Aunt Jemima" treatment. Show me a wife armed with a chop stick and a kabob skewer, and I'll show you a Dancing Ninja of Death. Why, most ladies are armed better than a battalion of Airborne Rangers and don't even realize it. And if they have one of those butane torches for crime brulee? Madame Mayhem, at yer service, Fugggheddaboutit.
Redneck should add a ladies' home defense course to his barbecue classes, all the tools are right there at hand. Double yer revenues...
Here are a few ideas (link below). I have a maul, mattock, a pick axe, a garden claw, a swallowtail hoe, and a Dutch bush hook. If I am ever attacked by an invasion of Mr. Potato Heads, I am ready! Gotta get me one of those single edge bush hooks, maybe an R Hoe or two....
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