Got Wood said:I have yet to find a piece of any kind of wood that my huskee 22 ton could not handle. I actually like splitting those difficult chunks with it - sort of a challenge. The splits dont always come out pretty but it gets split.... and the fire doesnt care how pretty they look.
In General, I find Maple to be one of the easier to split wood types.
Blue2ndaries said:Got Wood said:I have yet to find a piece of any kind of wood that my huskee 22 ton could not handle. I actually like splitting those difficult chunks with it - sort of a challenge. The splits dont always come out pretty but it gets split.... and the fire doesnt care how pretty they look.
In General, I find Maple to be one of the easier to split wood types.
+1 I like those knarlys and oddball pieces every once in a while for a challenge too. My 27ton Troy-Bilt has yet to be tested...
The Beagler said:I agree that maple can be some weird wood for splitting. Old trees growing in urban areas can be a pain to split
With a maul. This is sugar (hard) maple I'm talking about.
Got Wood said:I have yet to find a piece of any kind of wood that my huskee 22 ton could not handle. I actually like splitting those difficult chunks with it - sort of a challenge. The splits dont always come out pretty but it gets split.... and the fire doesnt care how pretty they look.
In General, I find Maple to be one of the easier to split wood types.
That was Black Tupelo...Black Locust splits pretty easily, even by hand.DanCorcoran said:Check out the thread entitled, "Rocket Scientist- Reporting". The OPs 22-ton Husky couldn't deal with black locust very easily.
pen said:I split a cord of maple between yesterday and this morning that would have taken longer to split using a splitter. Stuff just popped apart beautifully.
If I were to try and stereotype, I'd say that in general, the wood that I have pulled from the protection of a forest is generally easier to split than hedge row trees, lone trees in a field, etc.
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pen said:I split a cord of maple between yesterday and this morning that would have taken longer to split using a splitter. Stuff just popped apart beautifully.
If I were to try and stereotype, I'd say that in general, the wood that I have pulled from the protection of a forest is generally easier to split than hedge row trees, lone trees in a field, etc.
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firefighterjake said:Depends . . . on the species of maple, how it grew, etc.
In general maple has never presented a huge challenge for me and the hydraulic splitter . . . although I did have a bunch of red maple that due to the way it grew would always split with curving lines . . . kind of annoying when trying to stack it in the woodshed and in the firebox.