After setting up camp, you will need a good camp axe to split firewood into smaller pieces of stove wood and kindling and to perform other routine camp chores. On the internet, you can find hundreds of camp axes with varying head shapes, head weights, and handle lengths. How can you pick the one that is best suited for your family camping needs? Since the primary task for a camp axe is splitting firewood, you should look for a axe that was designed to easily split large amounts of firewood. Although each axe could split a piece of firewood, some axes do it much easier than others - and most other axes are inefficient, awkward, and/or unsafe for splitting large amounts of firewood. The best camp axe, in my opinion, is a small boy’s axe with 1.5 to 2.25-pound Dayton head and a 20 to 25-inch handle.This size was endorsed by Mors Kochanski and other accomplished outdoorsmen. With it, you can easily and safely split several pieces of firewood with relatively little effort. But, if you want...
