My wife is awesome

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My wife is awesome. Yesterday I went out to split 24" to 30" oak rounds. With wedges. She came out and helped. We took turns swinging the maul, using the splitting axe, and tossing the splits away from the work area. We went through three of them, plus a bit more. One more session and we'll be done with that tree.

It's sad, because it was a really nice, old tree, right between our house and the neighbors, and it cost entirely too much to have it cut down, but lightening hit it.
 
Half way through reading I thought you were going to say your wife said to buy a log splitter ..lol
 
sebring said:
Half way through reading I thought you were going to say your wife said to buy a log splitter ..lol
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I was thinking the same thing! :(
 
You would NEVER catch my wife doing that. The chances of her breaking a nail are just too great for her to risk it, not to mention the horror of a bug coming within 8 inches of her. :zip:
 
That is a good woman and you are a very lucky man. Still, I've seen many females splitting wood. I watched our neighbor girl, 16 years old splitting wood last fall. However, she was using our hydraulic splitter...
 
LOL that's funny. Heck I cant even get my wife to pick up a piece of wood let alone split it. That's what i get for marrying a "Jersey girl" shoulda stuck with those Maine girls I grew up with.

Steve
 
sebring said:
Half way through reading I thought you were going to say your wife said to buy a log splitter ..lol
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Mmmf. I had the splitter picked out and on my credit card before we even closed on the Cottage. DH thought he was going to do it all with a maul/wedge. Silly guy....I can just imagine if he saw the stack we've got to split now and I hadn't convinced him to buy it!

And we split verticle :D
 
eclecticcottage said:
sebring said:
Half way through reading I thought you were going to say your wife said to buy a log splitter ..lol
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Mmmf. I had the splitter picked out and on my credit card before we even closed on the Cottage. DH thought he was going to do it all with a maul/wedge. Silly guy....I can just imagine if he saw the stack we've got to split now and I hadn't convinced him to buy it!

And we split verticle :D
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Sounds like you are doing things right!
 
Backwoods Savage said:
eclecticcottage said:
sebring said:
Half way through reading I thought you were going to say your wife said to buy a log splitter ..lol
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Mmmf. I had the splitter picked out and on my credit card before we even closed on the Cottage. DH thought he was going to do it all with a maul/wedge. Silly guy....I can just imagine if he saw the stack we've got to split now and I hadn't convinced him to buy it!

And we split verticle :D
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Sounds like you are doing things right!
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Darn straight-why break your back lifting into a cradle?! I only looked at splitters that went both ways.
 
eclecticcottage said:
Backwoods Savage said:
eclecticcottage said:
sebring said:
Half way through reading I thought you were going to say your wife said to buy a log splitter ..lol
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Mmmf. I had the splitter picked out and on my credit card before we even closed on the Cottage. DH thought he was going to do it all with a maul/wedge. Silly guy....I can just imagine if he saw the stack we've got to split now and I hadn't convinced him to buy it!

And we split verticle :D
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Sounds like you are doing things right!
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Darn straight-why break your back lifting into a cradle?! I only looked at splitters that went both ways.
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I love it.

Looks like I'm reading my typing, lol !!
 
I see this thread is heading south with the the "v" word. Poor lost souls! Lol....:)
 
Blue Vomit said:
You would NEVER catch my wife doing that. The chances of her breaking a nail are just too great for her to risk it, not to mention the horror of a bug coming within 8 inches of her. :zip:
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Sounds a lot like my Wife....she'll load the stove and such....but split....no way....her little 5 foot tall 98 pound body swinging a maul would be something to see....but now that I got a splitter, I'll try to give her a lesson insplitting
 
I was tickled to death the one time the wife brought a beer to me in the back yard when stacking in the dark w/ a lantern! Considering that's how I stack most of my wood, one would think, hope, pray, it would happen more often. Alas......

You are doing well buddy!

pen
 
Backwoods Savage said:
That is a good woman and you are a very lucky man. Still, I've seen many females splitting wood. I watched our neighbor girl, 16 years old splitting wood last fall. However, she was using our hydraulic splitter...
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Yea but did she use a milk crate? Did she do it horizontally or vertically? Its all in the technique Dennis. LOL..
 
I've really got get a milk crate. Then my wife could help.......she could sit on the crate and watch as I split my wood......VERTICAL that is.
 
Locust Post said:
I've really got get a milk crate. Then my wife could help.......she could sit on the crate and watch as I split my wood......VERTICAL that is.
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Well, that's a start on the right track. I guess
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Doing The Dixie Eyed Hustle said:
Locust Post said:
I've really got get a milk crate. Then my wife could help.......she could sit on the crate and watch as I split my wood......VERTICAL that is.
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Well, that's a start on the right track. I guess
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Wow...was trying to be sarcastic and meant to say horizontal as that is how I generally split. Vertical,horizontal,horizontal,vertical. I've read the posts about that so many times I might try splitting upside down next time.
 
Locust Post said:
Doing The Dixie Eyed Hustle said:
Locust Post said:
I've really got get a milk crate. Then my wife could help.......she could sit on the crate and watch as I split my wood......VERTICAL that is.
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Well, that's a start on the right track. I guess
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Wow...was trying to be sarcastic and meant to say horizontal as that is how I generally split. Vertical,horizontal,horizontal,vertical. I've read the posts about that so many times I might try splitting upside down next time.
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So was I :)
 
You got a keeper there pyper. Sounds like my wife who is 5 nothing and was with me when we went to buy a splitter. I was looking at a 22 ton, but she talked me into getting a 35 ton. There are times I am busy when she wants to go out back and split firewood. All I have to do is get the splitter out of the shed and set it up for her(vertical). After that she won't stop till there is nothing left to split. Then she stacks it. The last time we were running low on firewood up at the house I told her I would move some wood after work. She left her job early (she can do that) had the front porch full and supper ready by the time I pulled in. We have been together over a quarter century and the most important things I have learned about my wife are 1: That she is as head strong and stubborn as I am and 2: She's a lot smarter, so when she wants to do something I either help her or just get out of her way.
 
wetwood said:
You got a keeper there pyper. Sounds like my wife who is 5 nothing and was with me when we went to buy a splitter. I was looking at a 22 ton, but she talked me into getting a 35 ton. There are times I am busy when she wants to go out back and split firewood. All I have to do is get the splitter out of the shed and set it up for her(vertical). After that she won't stop till there is nothing left to split. Then she stacks it. The last time we were running low on firewood up at the house I told her I would move some wood after work. She left her job early (she can do that) had the front porch full and supper ready by the time I pulled in. We have been together over a quarter century and the most important things I have learned about my wife are 1: That she is as head strong and stubborn as I am and 2: She's a lot smarter, so when she wants to do something I either help her or just get out of her way.
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Same here . . . I was ready to go with a 22-ton splitter and she suggested I go bigger if the cost wasn't very much . . . and she was fine with me buying a pick up with a V-8 since she knows us guys love our power.

She's also a lot smarter than me . . . which confuses me . . . I still don't know what she sees in me. ;)
 
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