Thought I'd share a glimpse of what I've been up too this morning. This is one section of a 28" diameter log that I'm working. I figure each section (I cut them 14" long) is about 250 lbs. The splitter handles the sections pretty easily. The loader is invaluable with these kinds of rounds.
Now that's an easy way to handle the big heavy rounds. Lots of nice cross stacking splits out of those !
You're right about the splits. I got a lot of great splits out of that log. Some of the nicest I've had in some time. Finished out the day with some splitting by hand. It was a great day here today, about 25 degrees, sunny, clear and bright with no wind. Perfect!!
Is it pin cherry or black...i cant make out the bark?.....either way dats a big cherry...my biggest was bout 20 couple...
Good looking stuff, those big rounds rounds will produce alot of splits for you And nothing like having the helping hand of a loader, no sore backs for you
Wow Dascro. It is good you have the tractor for those logs. Cherry around here does not get that big.
Nice looking stuff, wish I had more cherry around here seasons a whole lot faster than oak and burns and smells great That's a fine piece of hydro split'n machinery there also, I love my Huskee 22 ton one of the best splitters out there for the money in my opinion.
The woods in this area is predominantly black cherry. Hickory is a distant second followed by locust with a smattering of oak, beech, and some paper birch. The cherry I was splitting today was one of the largest we have, but it was standing dead in the pasture and had to come down. I enjoy working with cherry, it splits easy, smells great when splitting and burning and makes some decent BTU's. As of late though I've been burning a lot of hickory, speaking of making BTU's.
