Along with some sugar maple and ash, I got some silver birch over the last few days. Been splitting it by hand and I noticed it was kind of stringy. Since this is my first experience with birch, is this normal or just really wet? Did about a 1/2 face cord of it and it was all the same. Should I double or even triple split all of it? Also will be getting roughly 4-6 face cords of some cherry in about 3 weeks....What should I expect when splitting that? Thanks guys..