It is not very convenient, and even dangerous, to split a log into small chips with an ax. Therefore, in order to simplify the process of preparing chips for kindling a stove or barbecue, you can make your own hands a simple desktop chip-lever from a professional pipe.
Perhaps one of the advantages of this device is its small size and light weight, so that the chip can easily be installed on the table. And to make such a device is very simple.
Of the basic materials, sections of the profile pipe of different lengths (15, 20 and 30 cm), as well as a metal plate, will be required. Billets can be cut on a band saw or using an angle grinder.
The main stages of work
First of all, you need to weld together two pieces of a rectangular pipe 30 cm long (the seam must be boiled from two sides). Then we need to weld the second part from three pieces of the profile: two segments 20 cm long and one 15 cm long.
The master makes a cutting knife for a table-shaped chip-lever from a piece of a rectangular plate 10 cm long. You can sharpen the cutting edge using an angle grinder.
At the last stage of the work, it will be necessary to clean the welds, after which you can proceed to the final assembly of the structure. Then everything will need to be painted.
For details on how to make a compact desktop chip-lever from a professional pipe with your own hands, we recommend that you look in the video on the site.
