I used to hand split all my wood along with shoveling the driveway in the winter and hand digging the garden in the spring. As my 2 boys got older and involved in other things I started to get mechanized. I got a splitter, tiller and snow blower. Sold the tiller a couple years ago after the garden got too difficult to maintain. I need all the help I can get from machines. I still swing a maul if the wood is too large to pick up, but only to quarter it.
I'm confused...if a round is too long for vertical, wouldn't it still be too long for horizontal? Basically you just cut the round too long...?
Some of the people I deliver to want 18-20 or 24 inch logs. The splitter topped out at around 16 I believe
This is my first year of firewood hoarding for personal use, so I may be in the honeymoon stage but I love hand splitting so far. I realize it’s not the most efficient use of my time but I agree with you, I just want to do things I enjoy and live a simple life. It’s a great workout and my wife likes to watch.
I'm not nearly as old as some here, but I do have many years on the OP. The words these wise men speak absolutely rings true. I did construction for 20 years, to prove it, I have a knee that snaps, crackles and pops, a damaged shoulder, a compressed lower back, and an ankle that rolls several times a year, even with tight high logging boots. I still get around pretty good, but their point about you having one body is so, so, so accurate.
You are probably right. The round must have been larger than I thought. I had the splitter for about a week and then sold it.l so don’t remember much about it. I had bought an electric one years before that and maybe that was the one that had the 16 inch limit. It was 5 ton earthquake splitter. Sold it pretty quick too. The Troy built splitter moved extremely slow as well so I really didn’t like that.
The ole cat scale. I stand corrected. It is indeed 24-25 inch limit I believe I read from one of the posts on here
I stand corrected. I believe that one went to that length as well from the description on the picture
It does impress me that you have the cardio to split all day by hand like that. You're a pretty big guy.
