I love hand splitting in the woods. I enjoy completing the entire process there and then hauling a load of fresh splits home. Nice work woody!
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I haul the rounds and process elsewhere but I miss doing it that way. Still trying to find the most productive way to do firewood
I like to split in the woods. However, when the wood is too tough I use a mechanical splitter. I dislocated my knee last fall so seem to tucker out a little bit faster splitting than I used to. I've used my mechanical splitter more this year than in previous years.
Hope that knee heals. Hydraulics may rule for you for a while. They started to rule for me 30+ years ago...
If I was cutting commercially, I would, definitely buy a really good wood splitter. But for my own use, I just don't need it, at least not yet. I cut on my own place and try not to cut trees down that will be hard to split. I try to stay with easy splitting species and if I get into some hard parts of a tree, I will just noodle it. I like to have some noodles for kindling, anyway.
Some more hard maple stacked in the woods. I'm waiting for a hard freeze in the morning or for the soil to dry out a bit more so I can move this wood out to my stacks & split onto smaller pieces. My 2 canine helpers Bitsy the labrador & Tigger the Gordon Setter puppy.
Tomorrow am will be good. It's only 29 right now here in Ozaukee county. Either that or Thursday morning. It's only supposed to be 21° in the am . That is of you have the flexibility to do firewood during the week.
Got 'er Done this morning - running on the freeze. Got two more stacks in the woods yet - might get them Thursday or later in the spring.
