Weekend Haul

[NorthernFireplaceFool]

Managed to get this all for free from my neighbors this weekend to start getting prepped for next winter. I am sure all my neighbors in the city love hearing me run my chainsaw Still getting used to cutting wood myself and splitting. I was spoiled growing up with a hydraulic splitter.

 

[johneh]

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

 

[Dobish]

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

 

[Simonkenton]

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

 

[Beer Belly]

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

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

 

[NorthernFireplaceFool]

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

I got a row on nice solid huge ash rounds in the back and the front is some kind of maple but not sure what kind.
I have limited garage and yard space so I think the hydro splitter would be nixed by the wife.

 

[johneh]

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

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

 

[Soundchasm]

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.

 

[NorthernFireplaceFool]

Well I sped through all that to get it split, out of the driveway for a coming snowstorm and stacked in 2 days. Back is sore but it came out to a LOT of wood for free and no more than a football field away. The firewood grenade and the fiskars maul earned their money!

 

[Simonkenton]

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.

 

[NorthernFireplaceFool]

If you ever find one of these, they work wonders for the monster rounds.

 

[Simonkenton]

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

 

[Dobish]

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!

 

[NorthernFireplaceFool]

Neighbors a couple blocks down had a score of what looks like Ash left by the city they never took off. Was pretty punky in some and I found grubs in one of the rounds I split open. Should I be concerned with all the "dirt" that came out of one of them. I stepped on all the grubs but am concerned I have a nice healthy big ash at the end of the driveway I don't want them to destroy like they did this tree.

 

[NorthernFireplaceFool]

 

[johneh]

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

 

[spudman99]

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