Woodspliter (8lb. model)

[Altissimus]

Reading Che's posts about hand splitting got me thinking .... There are some advantages to the axe and maul .... I tend to split over 90% of my wood this way , saving my "dingers" in a pile for later hydraulic attention . I'm gettin old as well but I still sort of enjoy it ...

 

[Che]

Oh...you mean the post where I said it was my last time cuz it put my back out again? I guess that could be an encouragement in the line of 'use it or lose it'. lol

My husband and son got the new (to us) woodsplitter going for the first time. My son was not impressed....said he can split it twice as fast. Oh to be young again................!!

 

[SkwerI]

If your son claims he can split it twice as fast then he needs to prove it. And that means a full cord, not 4-5 pieces.

 

[gf beranek]

If I ship out a few rounds bay laural .... he'd have some fun with that stuff. Bounce, bounce, bounce bounce.....

 

[thattreeguy]

If I ship out a few rounds bay laural .... he'd have some fun with that stuff. Bounce, bounce, bounce bounce.....

i hate splitting it almost as much as i hate climbing it

 

[sotc]

i hate chipping it!

 

[Altissimus]

ELM , immediately to the "dinger" pile...

 

[gf beranek]

It cleans you nostrils out, Willy

 

[sotc]

clear to the back of your head!

 

[Che]

If your son claims he can split it twice as fast then he needs to prove it. And that means a full cord, not 4-5 pieces.

He's 17....remember that age? There ARE no limits to what they can do....in their own mind, anyway.

If I ship out a few rounds bay laural .... he'd have some fun with that stuff. Bounce, bounce, bounce bounce.....

Sounds like hedge (osage orange)....I don't know HOW anyone climbs it, mostly cuz of the horrible thorns. I bounce right off trying to split it leaving only big dents showing how bad my aim is.

I've never used a splitter and unless he rigs up something to lift the logs, I won't. But there is something really satisfying/exciting about hearing that creaking rip when it splits. I'm not hurting today, I won't try again today....but I'd have to say it will happen again soon!

 

[stehansen]

My neighbor hired me to remove some big broken limbs from a cedar deodora tree a couple of years ago. I was to cut them up into firewood length pieces and stack them and her grandson wanted to split them. He was playing minor league baseball for the Dekalb Kernels at the time. Well I got a call a couple of months later and she wanted me to come and split them as her grandson hurt his back and got about half way through. I rented a splitter from the local hardware store to do it though. Anyway this kid was 19 or 20 years old and a professional athlete and he hurt his back splitting wood.

 

[sotc]

stuff makes good firewood

 

[darkstar]

cCountry boy up near me will split a rick for 12 bucks of white or red oak.
He says it takes 45 mins using the hydralic splitter but he does it in 20 at most by hand.
He calls the maul a hammer.

 

[squisher]

I enjoy handsplitting, done it my whole life nearly. When I was a teenager we had foster kids stay with us and their job was to pack in/stack the wood I would split. Some of these kids were ok but alot of them were little punks (for whatever horrible reason their pasts held I'm sure) so some nights I'd split for hours and hours, keep the riff raff busy. No wonder they didn't like me much.

 

[Al Smith]

I split bunchs of wood by hand .Oak and hickory if it is real cold out split fairly easy .Elm is nearly impossible but that stuff is nearly non existant any more .

I only started using a 8 pound maul within the last few years and it because of green cut maple which doesn't split worth a hoot with my trusty old 5 pound splitting axe .

How some ever ,since I finally finished my hydraulic splitter old Excaliber the axe has not seen much action . It tilts so there is none of this trying to hoist a 3 foot round in that thing . I'm tough but not that tough .Besides that ,a tad long of tooth for that nonsense as much as I hate to admit it .

 

[sawinredneck]

I've split Elm and Hedge by hand, using diferent types of mauls. None work well!
Oak splits just nice as can be when dried. I've been trying to find me a "new style" splitting axe that I like. All I have now is a double bit axe. but so far don't like many of the canidats, or their prices!

As for climbing Hedge trees, you learn to move slowly and deliberatly!! Even then it's no fun!

 

[darkstar]

Whould u all agree that 12 bucks is cheap labor for splitting a rick ?
A rick is half a cord

 

[Newfie]

I can pay a guy $15 an hour and he will split a full cord in 45 minutes.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

heck yeah that's cheap

 

[Bodean]

I like to hand split, teaches you something about grain and precision.

The Bay Laurel tree, is the best.

I absolutely love climbing it, pruning it or wrecking it, such a spring board of a tree.

Chipping it, is overwhelming, especially if you're standing in the chip box.

Like a gazillion tubes of wasabi paste in your nose and brain at once.

Love it!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I like to hand split, teaches you something about grain and precision.

The Bay Laurel tree, is the best.

I absolutely love climbing it, pruning it or wrecking it, such a spring board of a tree.

Chipping it, is overwhelming, especially if you're standing in the chip box.

Like a gazillion tubes of wasabi paste in your nose and brain at once.

Love it!

 

[Dave Shepard]

You stand in the chip box when the chipper is running? Odd.


I like splitting by hand, 'specially when I'm pissed. I have a splitting maul I got in a deal with a logger when I was about 15. Got screwed royally, and I think of it every time I pick up that maul.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Actually have you ever burned it (bay laurel) while you brush it out? The scent won't get you but the flash fire will if you get too close

 

[Bodean]

You stand in the chip box when the chipper is running? Odd.

I had to put the Chip box near the infeed because the chute pointed backwards on the chipper at my old job.

 

[squisher]

That's odd too. Lol.