I've not seen this trick. Looks OK for dead easy to split wood, which is the extreme minority of wood. I used the maul ONE YEAR. Then I built a hydraulic wood splitter for the last thirty years. So, it wouldn't apply here.
That's like crazy-easy wood to split. The closest I've ever come to that is madrona, and I don't think it was that easy.
Splitting wood by hand is character-building, and used to be great fun when I was a kid splitting wood for a little vacation cabin once in a while. I think if I were heating a house with it I'd get a splitter, too.
Works fine on those smooth pieces of wood with no branch burls in there. Get something that isn't straight grained, and it wouldn't work worth a darn. Not all firewood rounds are the clean ones like those free of grain that will make it very difficult to split.
And why would one want to work so hard when a splitter saves so much work? I had heart surgery. I ain't swinging no maul. Get yo mama to split the wood.
Dutch elm is the disease of red elm and white elm (also know as piss elm - smell it). White elm is the most difficult to split wood their is. I heated my house with it for over ten years while the Dutch elm disease was wiping out every neighborhood.
Hmm...I have a neighbor that burns wood. Has a semi-load hauled in for $$$, uses a small Ford tractor with hydraulic bucket to move wood around $$$$$, hydraulic log splitter $$$$, chainsaw $$$, generator $$$ to run electric conveyor $$$ to put split wood into transfer trailer $$$$, to feed outside water boiler/burner $$$$.
I am always in awe watching this, wondering where the savings is...
I still split wood with a maul and wedges when necessary. Cut most of the wood with a cross-cut or bucksaw. Figure I get my exercise and don't piss away more money than I save in the process (shrug).
Have you ever had your sternum chainsawed in half then put back together with stainless steel wire? If you have, and can still do all that, you're a better man than I am. If you haven't, get back to me after you are in the club.
I've done and loaded a bunch of shit in the seven years since my surgery. But it is only when I have to. Wood splitting does not fall in that category. Cutting it down and cutting it to length does, as well as unloading 2,000 of pavers that I have to do tomorrow. Splitting wood makes no sense to me when I have a new log splitter.
7 years ago? Mine was 10 months ago. Shrug...I think of it as simply stretching the now evidently well healed sturnum and getting the kinks out of it...giving me that Manly Man chest profile that Ive always wanted
Gunner
"Aren't cats Libertarian? They just want to be left alone. I think our dog is a Democrat, as he is always looking for a handout" Unknown Usnet Poster
Heh, heh, I'm pretty sure my dog is a liberal - he has no balls. Keyton
Not yet, that's why I try to do some vigorous exercise on a regular basis. Dad was still bucking wood, cutting trees/brush with a scythe and axe well into his 80's. Alzheimer's saw to his demise. Something to look forward to I surmise...
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