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newburner said:
Well, i wanted to revive this thread as we are now starting to emerge from the snow. Today was the first day I had to start splitting this stuff. I put my new splitter to work.

My wife and I cut, split and stacked a quarter of a cord this morning. It took us about 3 hours. I'm not sure if that's fast or slow but having never done this, I was satisfied. Plus we had our 2 year old to keep an eye on.

So, a quarter cord in and I barely made a dent. Feeling good about hitting the 2 cord mark.
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The good thing about having a splitter is you can work at your own pace whenever you want......
I was gonna rent one last year but I was better off buying for sure.....
 
To get the big rounds onto the splitter, you might "noodle" them, that is, make a lengthwise rip cut through the bark, a bar's width in. Then hit that kerf with wedges or a maul..

Noodling cuts are easy on the saw, but some are much better than others at spittling the "noodles" out of the clutch cover.
 
I've been working on this tree every Saturday. Here's what I got so far.
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Have fun splitting that trunk :)
 
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Looks good. Nice and organized....
 
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Update:

Here's what I've split and what I have left. So far I have 180 cu/ft css.
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