City boy loves wood but it's too warm and there's no room.

I'm in the wrong place. It's 84° outside today and I'm splitting and stacking firewood in every inch of my postage-stamp backyard like an idiot. I have enough wood for endless Southern California winters. I love to scrounge, love to split and love to stack. I get a better workout than at the gym. I'd love to move to a colder climate on a few wooded acres in the pacific north-west but the wife won't have it.

On another note, I've been using this cheap Harbor Freight splitter and can split 24" rounds by peeling the edges and working in. I couldn't split this silver maple by hand. Still a workout lifting those suckas.

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You'd think that fiskers would go through it but it didn't for me. It would just stick 3" in the silver maple, even on the edges. I may be wrong, but city trees seem to grow this way and that and you never get straight grain. I even tried using a wedge but it stuck too (even at the edge). Maybe a more experienced lumber jack would make fast work of it by hand, but I couldn't. My plan was to use the electric splitter to get it split in half and then use the fiskers. That didn't happen of course. Used the splitter the whole way by peeling the edges and then to the middle. Paid $160 for it and that's what a cord of wood would cost here, so it paid for itself with the first free scrounge.

Naw, not looking to sell firewood. Too much trouble. I do it for fun. People do use their fireplaces/stoves around here. First night that gets below 60° every gets their fires going!