Turning that felled tree into proper firewood by hand with an ax is laborious and taxing work, but this backyard engineer made the entire process sublimely easy on himself with his novel contraption. Able to be towed to a location via a trailer hitch, this one-of-a-kind homebrewed millsaw/logsplitter is a godsend for anyone who must secure firewood to keep warm out in the wilderness. And it’s not just useful, it also looks like tons of fun!

Nature show cameraman finds a deadly surprise guest hiding out in his bathroom
While on location in Indonesia, filming deadly reptiles in the wild for the BBC’s second entry into its Planet Earth series, cameraman Mark MacEwen discovered one of the beasts he had just captured on video had holed itself up in his bathroom. Not wanting to risk his own injury or worse at the jaws of...