Name that thing!

[ksmith]

The metal wedge-shaped things that you drive into logs in order to split them--do they have a name?

(Besides "wedge")

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

True. Likewise with the plastic wedges used in felling, that don't interact violently with a chainsaw . . .

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, no steel wedges in evidence when I am using my crosscut saws! Soft metal (Al/Mg) or plastic only!