I ran into a big scrounge and was told by the homeowner she has 10 oak trees and another one, maybe maple cut down. I didnt see any maple when I loaded the wood into the truck. Tonight I went out and tried my new 13lb maul on a round and it just kept bouncing off, Im thinking this thing sucks, then I tried another round about the same size and it split like nothing. Im doing all this in the dark with a streetlight for light so Im not seeing these rounds all that well. I then tried the Fiskars on the hard to split round and it was a bear, nothing like the red oak rounds Ive split. I got a spotlight and inspected the round and its got a different bark than the oak, also the wood looks different, once I split it it was a light ring on the outside and dark in the middle, a different color than the oak.
Ill take a pic tomorrow and see what everyone thinks
Ill take a pic tomorrow and see what everyone thinks