This makes perfect sense. Thanks for answering my question.I've never changed the oil in the splitter and that makes it difficult to start because the pump runs as you hand crank it. My body is getting to where it hates recoil starters anyway so I don't like cranking it when it is difficult to do. Once the snow is melted, usually in late March I get to the splitting. I actually find that it seems to be less taxing and it seems we get more done this way.
I have in the past taken the splitter right out in the woods to split some big stuff but find it works much better to just stack it as it is cut in the winter then do all the spitting. So when done splitting, the splitter gets put in the barn and sits there until the following year.
The first 2 pictures below were taken last spring so it shows how I just sort of throw the logs into a sloppy stack. It works well for us. That last picture shows that after splitting, we simply stack it right there without hauling it somewhere else. Pay no attention to the ugly fellow there.
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And it's nice to connect your name with your face!
It's 55 degrees here this evening, which is odd, indeed.
I just came inside from putting our fish pond away for the winter. As I disconnected the pump and cleared the leaves from the surface, I noticed the big bullfrog was sitting on a rock starring at me.
In December.
In Michigan.