Folks I’m having a heck of a time trying to split what i believe is tulip tree. I’m in Virginia, and these trees seem to grow really tall and i had to have some cut down. The folks that felled the tree cut them into rounds and i thought they would be really easy to split with a fiskars but.... I’m finding it almost impossible to split. When I swung my maul into a round a few months ago, water just sprays out like a wet sponge. I let it sit for a few months and now my fiskars sinks into the round and i can still see water getting squeezed out of the round, but it doesn’t seem like it’s close to being split. I thought i could just stare at it and it would split! HELP! Any advise? Wait 6 months before splitting?
Here's a picture of round that i actually did get to split... but the rest seem to be killing me...
Here's a picture of round that i actually did get to split... but the rest seem to be killing me...