Well, all the soft/fast drying wood from the grapple load is split. Will the hard maples split like the soft ones? Just curious.
Thanks,
Bruce
Thanks,
Bruce
I have a pile of hard maple that has been around for some months......bucked it and went after it with my fiskars.......My fiskars bounced off it like rubber.....multiple pieces of it.....put it aside for the splitter. Didn't get any of it split by hand. On the other hand, I got 5 loads of freshly bucked red oak last weekend.....Have been hand splitting for like a half hour a night.....pops apart with minimal effort. Beautiful. Could not be any easier.....Any piece with a branch or crook gets put aside for the splitter.
Me too, I enjoy it much more than the splitter but am glad I have it for the uglies.....If it needs a wedge and sledge it gets tossed in the splitter pile. Would be a waste to use it on red oak.....simpler to bust it up with a splitting axe.Red oak is the bomb for hand splitting. Fortunately for me, red oak is 90% of what I scrounge. ( I greatly prefer hand splitting).
Butternut. Most of the butternut that ran through my splitter this year popped apart when it got an inch deep on the wedge.I haven't found any wood easier to split than red oak. Love the feel, and smell, of splitting it by hand. Maple is a bit tougher, but I do that by hand also. I notice a difference but I agree that the splitter will not.
Butternut. Most of the butternut that ran through my splitter this year popped apart when it got an inch deep on the wedge.
Correct, but as long as my father-in-law keeps bringing me forwarder loads of wood, I'm not going to complain about what's in them.Most "gofer" wood splits easy!
"Gofer", as in "Throw in a piece and GOFER another!" A little wood burning humor!"Gofer wood"? You mean like the stuff Noah built the Ark with?
I know butternut is really soft and light, but I never heard it called that before.
I haven't found any wood easier to split than red oak. Love the feel, and smell, of splitting it by hand. Maple is a bit tougher, but I do that by hand also. I notice a difference but I agree that the splitter will not.
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