plus with bear season just rolling through you know they arent coming around scavenging. Black bear are smart creatures. I enjoy wood as well and have thrown more wood than i care to admit honestly, then i got a dwi after getting out of the service and ended up at a work camp for wood splitters i guess lmao, nothing like having 45 foot tall hitches of mud laden logs to go thru all your chains.....then swinging a 15 pound maul cause the bastards are to dumb to buy anything smaller lmao,,,,,,,,only to realize its all for free to feed there boiler at some big facility in saint johnsbury(course this was like 16 yrs ago) all i can say now is thankgod i aint splitting green yellow birch with a fucken maul right now lol.