Got out today to get partway caught up on splitting. I've got about 7 cord over by the old horse barn that is for the 21-22 season. I got about 2 cord of it split today and there's still about 1-1/2 cord to split yet. Mostly Honey Locust, Cherry, Crabapple, and Hawthorn. Selfie with wood... Sorry, couldn't resist...
I was out splittin’ on my day off too. Started with some white oak and finished all the maple. (My dad in the pic) Beautiful day here in southern PA.
Your wood looks great.I had the same thing in mind and couldn't let this beautiful day go to waste.I just came in from hand splitting about 3/4 of a cord of maple.I'm done for the day and am cooling down which is a good feeling after a splitting work out.
Speaking of Gettysburg, we took one of the neighbor boys (he's only 8) to the Library to see an Abe Lincoln enactor since it was Presidents' Day. He did the Gettysburg Address and Wes was exited about it and shot a video of it on his phone so he could show the kids at school tomorrow. Wes is one of the neighbor boys that comes over with his brother and helps split wood sometimes. He had never been to the Library before and was telling us how much he likes to read. My wife showed him around the library then too. It was a great sunny day to be outside working. Sorry bout your Dad's thumb. I see it doesn't slow him down much... Amazing work ethic in that generation.
Thanks. I migrated to the hydraulic splitter 10 years ago or so after hand splitting to heat our house for years. And that was with the old wood eatin' smoke dragon we had back then.
Good job all. Makin’ me feel like I was lazy. But alas, I will get after it tomorrow as the wife is back to work and the kids in school.
There may come a time when a splitter might be looked at.My uncle was splitting into his 80's and I'm going to try to outlast him.
Great work! I wanted to get out and run the splitter, but I was taking a recovery day after activating my back yesterday.
Impressive stacks. Excellent work MAF143 . Nice to put a face to the user name as well. You might be a wood hoarder if you take a selfie with your wood pile!
I have a couple of Ash down over by the mailpouch barn and house that I had hoped to get into the woodshed today for next season. I checked both of them out and they are solid as a rock. The roots had rotted and they toppled in the winds we've had recently. I'll try to get them next weekend or during a nice evening with the light bar on the truck, but with the rains coming and no hard freezes, the wet ground limits where I can get the truck. Even if I can get the truck and tractors there, the ruts end up being a pain later when it's time to mow. I hate making more work for myself later, but I hate seeing good wood laying on wet ground even more.
Stubborn old fart had to help the whole time. He's doing good, thanks. I'd rather he just took a break from it and let things settle in a bit.
Thanks! It was actually better yesterday, but I just wanted to give it a day of rest. It was killing me staring out the window at the pile of rounds though!
I was running low on kindling. Gotta use the wood splitter for something, I have enough firewood for 5 years.
Friday I was able to get back out and finish up splitting the backside of the woodpile that is shown in the second pic of the original post. My neighbor came over with his splitter and helped out. Glad to have that all done. That pile is 6 cords. Next got back to work on the large Pin Oak that blew down. He helped finish the clean up on the tops and cut the limb wood. I was working on the main trunk. 30" DBH trunk with 22" long rounds and they were way too heavy to handle so I started noodling them into quarters. Some of the big rounds had already been cut from when I had a buddy's 661 here to fix for him, I had to test it... That's the 391 with 25" bar. MS391 makes short work of noodling these. The MS250 noodles pretty well too in tight quarters with it's 18" bar, not near as fast as the 391 though. I found this strange looking piece of piece of wood while splitting. My neighbor ID'ed it as "nipwood" and wanted to take it home...
