The great Thanksgiving Day Split.

Sounds like a good idea to me!

I too have the Fiskars Super and love it ! I have a nice supply of bucked Ash logs the I like to split in small increments so I don't over due it,especially in the early morning on my day off.Thanksgiving day should be no exception.

Heck no, Thanksgiving day is for Hunting and then stuffing faces and falling asleep in front of the fire

I wish I had some wood to split on Thanksgiving Day! Our deer season ends Sunday and by Monday I will be out cutting and splitting again. Can't wait. I have a very nice old 6lb maul that I love. I might even be buried with it next to me in my coffin.

Oh yeah . . . cutting and splitting tomorrow . . . providing I have enough time and if my Amish neighbor is done with the splitter.

No. It is a Holiday so I'll be taking some needed rest time and being thankful.

For me, cutting and splitting wood is a break from the routine, and thus qualifies as a holiday activity. I will try to find some time to split wood tomorrow.

I hope I can find some time to split before turkey.

I just started a thread about the same topic :cheese:
https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/46653/

I've been splitting up an old crabapple all week, and probably will do some more while the bird is cookin..

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Oh yeah . . . cutting and splitting tomorrow . . . providing I have enough time and if my Amish neighbor is done with the splitter.

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I am surprised to see the Amish using a splitter. I figured sledges and wedges for them.

And yes, I will be messing aroung out in the woods this morning.



KC

ckarotka said:

Well I'm dome for the day. Time for bird and beer. WOW that Fiskars is somethin' I walked over to a 20" round of oak started my swing and before I could hit it, it busted into 8 pieces!! It split in the awsome presence of the Fiskars alone!! ;-P But really what a nice tool, it really put the fun back in splitting. I know not everyone likes it but for me it's my new tool of choice.

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Have to agree about the Fiskars, knocks out big oak rounds with ease. Since I split for an hour yesterday, today I get to sit back and watch the Lions win, er, never mind. Living in Detroit is not easy.

I got in a couple of hours with help from the wife. This was a Willow Oak that died close to our house. It is the first time I have split Willow Oak. It has a very pretty grain and a nice smell but is a bit more difficult than Red Oak but perhaps not as bad as White Oak to split. I did it all with a 8 pound maul.

I’ve been splitting up an old crabapple all week, and probably will do some more while the bird is cookin...

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If that stump is the old crabapple you are referring to, then that has to be the biggest ol' crabapple I've ever seen in my life.

Only split and cut a small amount. Pulled apart the homelite saw to port it a little bit, and clean up the chamber, then hog out the muffler a little. And then tune it using the freshly explained 4 stroking method. Then cut when done to test out the mods. And splitt what I cut.

Oh, well... I'm off at the relatives in Tx for the holiday. Not a bad thing overall but I do rather wish I could go out and split some wood! I saw some folks splitting wood down the street from here and was tempted to ditch the crowd at the house and go help them out but that just wasn't to be.

All is not lost though, we did an early Christmas gift exchange since we won't be together again this year and I got a nice Stihl helmet/faceshield/ear protection setup as a gift. Been needing/wanting one of those for a while so it was perhaps one of the most useful gifts I've received in quite a while. Can't wait to get home and put it to good use!

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If that stump is the old crabapple you are referring to, then that has to be the biggest ol' crabapple I've ever seen in my life.

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The tree service guys said the same when they were taking it down. This is what the tree looked like in the spring. All that ivy killed it off.

iskiatomic said:

Oh yeah . . . cutting and splitting tomorrow . . . providing I have enough time and if my Amish neighbor is done with the splitter.

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I am surprised to see the Amish using a splitter. I figured sledges and wedges for them.

And yes, I will be messing aroung out in the woods this morning.



KC

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I've heard they can borrow or rent, but not buy. I was picking up some fire wood, and the 'uncle' there told me he bought a splitter 10 years ago and lent it to some Amish near one of his cabins, hasn't seen it since. Their arraignment is: he just swings by and takes all the split wood he needs. When the pump went bad they repaired it and just keep on splitting.

Pretty sweet deal.

The tree service guys said the same when they were taking it down. This is what the tree looked like in the spring. All that ivy killed it off.

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That was a nice looking old tree. The ivy was probably just taking advantage of the dead tree branches to grow more - I doubt that played a role in the trees demise. It was probably just old age. I've never seen a crabapple quite that big. Did you count the growth rings?

I would have bucked and split some wood i cut down a few weekends ago. Problem is it's been raining since Wed and hopefully I can get it done tomorrow because Sun is a full day putting up the Christmas decorations

no splitting for me yesterday. But I blocked up alot of cherry ,oak.and maple for next year. Splitting will come later when it cools off..

DBoon said:

That was a nice looking old tree. The ivy was probably just taking advantage of the dead tree branches to grow more - I doubt that played a role in the trees demise. It was probably just old age. I've never seen a crabapple quite that big. Did you count the growth rings?

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Hmmm. Now you got me thinking. I just assumed the ivy was choking it - not a tree expert. Either way it was dead - barely any leaves this year and the trunk is about half rot

I didnt think to count the rings! now the chunk of stump I have is too dirty to see them but i did count the rings on a section of one of the two main trunks above the crotch. Counted about 45 I think.

The Amish rules must be a bit different than I thought because we were in amish country and saw them using gas blowers , weedeaters, and, other gas appliances