Wood Splitting Contest...

[Dalmatian90]

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How come I never have someone like her timing me at home?

 

[Hinerman]

Have you looked in the mirror lately? :msp_ohmy:

Those boys need a Fiskars....yeah, I went there. :msp_ohmy:

 

[EXCALIBER]

Five, four, three, two, one don't stop!

 

[Dalmatian90]

Few pics and a video:

Measuring the wood

The girls -- this was some nasty, gnarly green wood. If it was me, I'd use some nice straight red oak so you could give the crowd a good show instead of looking like you're driving railroad ties:

Trying to keep the log on the rails:

Log rolling -- I'm surprised my camera was doing this well, its hard to tell on its little screen, so I quit taking pics after this convinced the light must be too low:
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[CTYank]

Have you looked in the mirror lately? :msp_ohmy:

Those boys need a Fiskars....yeah, I went there. :msp_ohmy:

What for? Not trying to stand pieces up on dirt would accomplish more. Swinging any splitting tool into dirt is not a good idea.

(Not inclined to knee-jerk reactions here.)

 

[zogger]

Skinny ole me would race either one of those guys, yep, even in that setup in the dirt. Neither one, despite their manly man young guy muscles, was fast enough to use the maul at the follow through to keep the remainder of the round upright, or start out leaning it in with the other unsplit rounds to keep from falling over.... plus..they are using anvils on a stick....badly... I mean, dang.....

Scotty looking at the old computer with the mouse and keyboard "How quaint"!

Anyway, this is why I mostly split on a low wide block, inside a tire, using a light weight tool designed for speed and accuracy over slow random bludgeoning.....

cool vid anyway! Just had to be honest in my assesment of their efforts...I bet any number of members here coulda cleaned their clock splitting.

 

[c5rulz]

I always wager when I golf.

I would wager against those lads in a heartbeat. Apparently they have never leaned smaller splits against another round to stop if from tipping over. hitting it where you want it helps a bunch too. :msp_wink:

 

[woodbooga]

What for? Not trying to stand pieces up on dirt would accomplish more. Swinging any splitting tool into dirt is not a good idea.

(Not inclined to knee-jerk reactions here.)

I was wondering why they were splitting into the dirt and not using one of the other rounds as a split stump. The ground tends to absorb more of the force I find.

(My audio isn't working - so maybe using a stump was against the rules or something)

 

[Dalmatian90]

Got the rest of my pics up at:
Just Ducky: Washington County Fair 2013

 

[Wood Doctor]

Putrid

30 years ago I could have done better than these guys did with my eyes closed. Ridiculous. :msp_razz:

 

[zogger]

cool pics!

Maybe that crosscut contraption is a sawmill? You are correct, that isn't an ice blade, at least not like any I have seen before.

 

[Garmins dad]

I didn't watch the video.. but the pictures look like high school students..

 

[zogger]

I didn't watch the video.. but the pictures look like high school students..

Yep, they sure do look like school kids, and both of them are bigger than me! By a lot!

I would still race 'em! ha! I'd race both, quantity and size, stuffing the barrel, at the same time!

they would both proly clean my clock in a video game though...young folks today got "twitch" like crazy...used to know a couple young guys, grew up with computers and had "twitch"..both of then could quick draw like unreal. You barely had an inkling they were drawing and it was already over...twitch..then there are sportsbikes today, the superbikes...young guys..twitch....

Every single new generation has new skills, and the pharts grumble about how they are no good, etc..whatever....splitting wood is fun, lot of us like to do it, but really..it's borderline caveman skill..it is nerd skills that bring home the serious bacon tonnage today...next generation who knows..something might happen and it goes back to caveman skills!

 

[Dalmatian90]

cool pics!

Maybe that crosscut contraption is a sawmill? You are correct, that isn't an ice blade, at least not like any I have seen before.

Fellah on antique tractor board identified it for me -- it's a drag saw.

I'm a bit leery using this was, after you putz to put it in position, was really easier or faster than using a good crosscut saw:

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[brewmonster]

Those boys splittin' wood? My oh my, what a lot of wasted time, motion, and effort. But that's young'uns for you, all muscle and no brains. As a physically unimpressive old geezer, I'm sure I could easily have lured them into a wager, then hustled them out of their milk money.

 

[zogger]

Fellah on antique tractor board identified it for me -- it's a drag saw.

I'm a bit leery using this was, after you putz to put it in position, was really easier or faster than using a good crosscut saw:

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Slick! You can be busting up a round, while the next one is being bucked! That was probably the feline's posterior back before chainsaws.

I ran a zogger powered big crosscut along with my bowsaw to heat with, only in the absolute larger logs I got. No thanks, the powered model would be a lot easier, even dragging it over for the next cut. Bowsaw was much easier and faster than a crosscut. Lighter and narrower kerf for one thing. I only used that old big monster for like 3-6 foot logs, most of them elm I got given.


It didn't take too long to find out why I got the free wood....then I had to bust it up with my generic cheap limbing axe....I learned to aim good...

That was the hardest work to get some BTUs ever. I wound up cutting cookies and using them for table tops with this one real big log.You could NOT get a friend to run the other end of the saw, despite any handy bribe. One cut, they all said "no more"....fine, just fine, did it myself then.

Builds up your arm muscles!

Old member here who doesn't seem to post anymore had one of these he posted a pic of once, the Count.

 

[cantoo]

Dalmation, the saw was setup for demonstration purposes. Can't show much or do many shows if you fly thru the logs. They can cut pretty quick when you want to. I used to help an old friend of my Dad's at the local steam show. He had a steam tractor powered sawmill, we cut real slow and made a show of it. Kind of like 08150 on a 1st date.