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[tilenick]

they say.....

A family of amish that live by my geandmothers house came by one summer day while my brother and I were cutting and splitting some firewood and remarked "You should save that kind of work for the late fall or winter,so the wood heats you twice, once when you are splitting it and once when you are burning it".
So I say that the cold just helps. And I think that rounds split better when they are frozen(Although I havent split any locust...I may be wrong)

 

[turnkey4099]

A family of amish that live by my geandmothers house came by one summer day while my brother and I were cutting and splitting some firewood and remarked "You should save that kind of work for the late fall or winter,so the wood heats you twice, once when you are splitting it and once when you are burning it".
So I say that the cold just helps. And I think that rounds split better when they are frozen(Although I havent split any locust...I may be wrong)

I recall splitting BIG rounds of frozen Ponderosa pine when I was kid. I found if I just dropped the ax and then dropped it again hitting the same spot the round would fall in half. As for Locust, it is a fairly easy splitting wood. That one I worked today was the easiest one I ever worked. of the 14 rounds, including that big butt round, only 2 needed to be noodle. The other took only 3 or 4 strikes with wedge/sledge to crack in half.

I should have taken a pic of that big multe stemmer 2nd from left. It will have to come down in two sections. Main mass, all but the left stem, will go to the right clear of everything but the junk on the ground. That left stem needs to 'slot' between the shed on the left and an old outhouse on the right - about a 6' 'slot'. I don't think I am good enough to do it. No problem if it does smash one or both, they are both derelicts.

Harry K

 

[Steve NW WI]

I recall splitting BIG rounds of frozen Ponderosa pine when I was kid. I found if I just dropped the ax and then dropped it again hitting the same spot the round would fall in half. As for Locust, it is a fairly easy splitting wood. That one I worked today was the easiest one I ever worked. of the 14 rounds, including that big butt round, only 2 needed to be noodle. The other took only 3 or 4 strikes with wedge/sledge to crack in half.

I should have taken a pic of that big multe stemmer 2nd from left. It will have to come down in two sections. Main mass, all but the left stem, will go to the right clear of everything but the junk on the ground. That left stem needs to 'slot' between the shed on the left and an old outhouse on the right - about a 6' 'slot'. I don't think I am good enough to do it. No problem if it does smash one or both, they are both derelicts.

Harry K

Harry, you owe yourself a Fiskars. Once you have one, the wedge/sledge combo will land in one of them fencelines to be found by a firewood hound in another couple hundred years, like an old flint axe we'd find today.

Do not forget AS rule #12, if you smash it, video it!

 

[turnkey4099]

Harry, you owe yourself a Fiskars. Once you have one, the wedge/sledge combo will land in one of them fencelines to be found by a firewood hound in another couple hundred years, like an old flint axe we'd find today.

Do not forget AS rule #12, if you smash it, video it!

Already have the Fiskars. Great _after_ a big round is halved. I still marvel at how well that x27 works.

Harry K