Rented a splitter for Sunday, and the rental place let me pick it up 10am Saturday. Got started about 11am Saturday, and by the same time Sunday I had close to five cords split, three if them stacked by my father-in-law, and the rest thrown into a pile when he got tired and had to take breaks.
We took a break to relocate the splitter before noon Sunday, and were talking about getting lunch when he pulled out a sheet of melamine backed particle board he wanted to cut for an unrelated project. I just moved, and don't have my big equipment set up yet, so he pulled out a small contractor table saw he had given me, and got to it, while I finished moving the splitter. I went over to watch and catch off-feed shortly after he started, and then watched him cut his finger off. A pretty gruesome and upsetting sight, I can assure you.
Needless to say, not much splitting happened after that. The nearest hospital with a proper hand surgeon was 45 minutes away, but he did get a good one, who was able to stitch the finger back on, and close up the mangled fingers on either side of the one he cut off. They're postponing the major surgery until Christmas, to minimize risk of infection.
Split another three quarters of a cord when I got home from all that, as it was getting dark, trying to just take my mind off what had happened.
We took a break to relocate the splitter before noon Sunday, and were talking about getting lunch when he pulled out a sheet of melamine backed particle board he wanted to cut for an unrelated project. I just moved, and don't have my big equipment set up yet, so he pulled out a small contractor table saw he had given me, and got to it, while I finished moving the splitter. I went over to watch and catch off-feed shortly after he started, and then watched him cut his finger off. A pretty gruesome and upsetting sight, I can assure you.
Needless to say, not much splitting happened after that. The nearest hospital with a proper hand surgeon was 45 minutes away, but he did get a good one, who was able to stitch the finger back on, and close up the mangled fingers on either side of the one he cut off. They're postponing the major surgery until Christmas, to minimize risk of infection.
Split another three quarters of a cord when I got home from all that, as it was getting dark, trying to just take my mind off what had happened.