Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[Piotr Pakuła]

Some people like to get tired and others like to change something to make it easier and lighter

 

[BeatCJ]

I don't know about vertical. I had some good size Big Leaf Maple rounds to split. I had borrowed a splitter that would work vertically. I found it easier to pick up everything I could. Wrestling the rounds into the vertical splitter, lifting them up onto the baseplate was a huge chore. Luckily, I had them cut to 16" for my stove. I didn't measure them, but the 28" bar on the 044 didn't make it all of the way through. I found it easier to noodle those into 1/4s, them pick them up and set them on the splitter.

I was using another borrowed splitter the other day on some 24" alder, I was really disliking the lack of a table. I really thought about taking the time to build one instead of fighting the big halves. I would opt for a table over a vertical splitting option, if I ever break down and get one myself.

 

[Squareground3691]

I don't know about vertical. I had some good size Big Leaf Maple rounds to split. I had borrowed a splitter that would work vertically. I found it easier to pick up everything I could. Wrestling the rounds into the vertical splitter, lifting them up onto the baseplate was a huge chore. Luckily, I had them cut to 16" for my stove. I didn't measure them, but the 28" bar on the 044 didn't make it all of the way through. I found it easier to noodle those into 1/4s, them pick them up and set them on the splitter.

I was using another borrowed splitter the other day on some 24" alder, I was really disliking the lack of a table. I really thought about taking the time to build one instead of fighting the big halves. I would opt for a table over

A Woodchuck Duel Peavey , makes ezy work with big rounds ,

 

[BeatCJ]

So does the front end loader on the tractor. I've been picking most of the logs up from the end, getting them level at waist height this year. I've had a few that were too big for the tractor to lift, so a couple, half a dozen rounds off of the end is much easier on the back. Cutting wood was a lot easier when I was 50 and young...

 

[SS396driver]

Found this in the upper rafter loft shelf of the barn today unusual shape

 

[Piotr Pakuła]

Found this in the upper rafter loft shelf of the barn today unusual shape

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I have the same one

 

[SS396driver]

I have the same one

Made in USA ?

 

[Squareground3691]

So does the front end loader on the tractor. I've been picking most of the logs up from the end, getting them level at waist height this year. I've had a few that were too big for the tractor to lift, so a couple, half a dozen rounds off of the end is much easier on the back. Cutting wood was a lot easier when I was 50 and young...

Not everyone has a tractor, that tool makes it much easier, im not a youngster either, time stops for know one, work smarter not harder,

 

[MechanicMatt]

I don't know about vertical. I had some good size Big Leaf Maple rounds to split. I had borrowed a splitter that would work vertically. I found it easier to pick up everything I could. Wrestling the rounds into the vertical splitter, lifting them up onto the baseplate was a huge chore. Luckily, I had them cut to 16" for my stove. I didn't measure them, but the 28" bar on the 044 didn't make it all of the way through. I found it easier to noodle those into 1/4s, them pick them up and set them on the splitter.

I was using another borrowed splitter the other day on some 24" alder, I was really disliking the lack of a table. I really thought about taking the time to build one instead of fighting the big halves. I would opt for a table over a vertical splitting option, if I ever break down and get one myself.

I agree 100% on a table. I’d LOVE to add one to mine

 

[Piotr Pakuła]

Made in USA ?

I'll see if it has any markings because I don't remember / There is a Richmond stamp and the weight given in oz, which is illegible because someone was tapping with the side of a hammer

 

[Squareground3691]

Sometin ,

 

[Nolan Pluke]

Not everyone has a tractor, that tool makes it much easier, im not a youngster either, time stops for know one, work smarter not harder,

 

[Nolan Pluke]

Accumulating years and now a shoulder injury have me having to work smarter. Not pictured on the Wheel Horse D 200 is a hitch haul that I had on the weight box receiver to haul the red oak chunks to my splitter, in its vertical position. I lower the 3 point so I can roll the chunks off into a barrel dolly and maneuver under the ram that way. Oh, I have a chunk of 2x10 to enlarge the base.

 

[cobb]

Using the 026 today.