Weekend Haul

So spoil yourself buy a hydro splitter
They are not that expensive and a ton of fun to use
Nice haul

Nice! I picked this up from a friend the other day....

Hubsch! Beautiful!! What kind of wood is that?

johneh said:

So spoil yourself buy a hydro splitter
They are not that expensive and a ton of fun to use
Nice haul

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I second this.....worth every penny....watch how many friends come out of nowhere to borrow it......like buying a pick up truck

NorthernFireplaceFool said:

I think the hydro splitter would be nixed by the wife.

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I just told my better half that if the kids could have toys
then so could I . She gave me what for but I got one
anyway . Now she loves it and uses it more than I do
just can't keep her away . Not that I'm complaining

Can't be certain but is that silver maple? That stuff is heavy when live cut.

I got at least 30 cords out of my 1st $300 electric splitter before I broke it by not noticing things that were loose that could have been tightened.

Those will NOT power through anything, but if you enjoy playing three-dimensional chess with a round, you can whittle them down from the outside-in a bit at a time. It's a lot of handling of each round, but it works for me, and there's no noise to speak of. You can even split indoors.

You will definitely become a "split whisperer". Look "inside" the round and take your best shot.

I broke down 2 years ago and bought a Fiskars. What a great maul.
I hate to say it, but it is better than my good 'ol Monster Maul.

I bought a wood grenade and it works very well.

I also bought, from Baileys, an aluminum splitting wedge made in Germany, Ochsenkopf. This thing has about a 45 degree twist to it, so that as you drive it in it twists to where the wide part of the wedge splits the wood. It works a little better than the wood grenade.

I bought that 3 years ago and I was going to post a link, but it is not in the Bailey's catalog today. I don't know if they quit making them, or, if they have sold out.

Here I found one on ebay for sixty seven bucks. Since you already have the very good wood grenade, I wouldn't rush out and buy one of these.
I had a bunch of knarly trees to split and I had a helper I was paying $18 an hour, so two weeks ahead of time, I got the wood grenade, and the Ochsenkopf.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/253526189385

i actually just turned down a very large score of silver maple, since they needed it gone in a few days and I couldn't get to it. i opted for a 3 year old seasoned stack of more manageable stuff!

With out a picture of the grubs hard to say what they were
But most likely the type that moves into rotten wood and
composts it They live on the wet rot they do not attack health trees

Your probably gonna lose that healthy ash anyway when the EAB is in the area. Right now just York County is quarantined but its probably gonna expand. Enjoy the Ash while it lasts.

Here is a picture of the EAB grub