O boy I got a load of water oak today and it's the easiest splitting wood I've ever split, I swear if you look at it hard enough it will split. I got one big round and the rest some pretty big limbs should be some great wood!!!
Yes they do. skylogger , are you making shingles? I was thinking red oak as far as the easiest splitting wood I've ever dealt with.
Figured it was a red oak of some sort. It'll make you feel like he man. Love splitting it myself cause I can pick the size and shape that I want.
Really common tree in eastern Arkansas where I live it's in the red oak family lol no I'm not making shingles I was just seeing how thin I could bust that wood
Yup. I spent several hours last week with my X27 and red oak rounds. Splits real nice. One strike, one split. Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
Hand splitting elm is the reason many of us go out and buy a hydraulic splitter.Gotta hand it to ya. Takes real commitment to split elm by hand.
Yes it does. That is why as soon as I could afford it I went hydraulic with an American CLS log splitter!
I accidentally cut some sweet gum a couple weeks ago it was mixed in with some small oak that fell when I got to it even the x27 had a hard time with it, had to be the hardest to split wood I ever split! It was ridiculous.
I think that is the first reference to water oak I've seen on the interweb. A friend of mine uses it and heats his house with his wood burning cook stove. I still don't know exactly what it is,but it's evidently in eastern Oklahoma,also.
I use it here in Maryland, it's best split with a sledge and a grenade wedge, even then it makes you work for it!! Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk
