cotton picking sweet gum

I had to cut a dying gum hovering over my chicken pens today. I hate the stuff but I figured I may as well go on and attempt to split it and use it. That's probably the last one . EVER! Too many good trees around here for me to do that again!

 

Man, that picture of the splits tells the tale!
Sweet gum but by thunder you did it! Well done!

 

Hear about this stuff every now and then...hopefully it burns ok for the work.

 

I have one in my front yard that provides me hours of "fun" a few times a year picking up those wonderful seed pods. The thing that keeps it safe are all the horror stories of splitting it

 

Noodle it up and then split down. Goes a lot easier that way. Just got a cord of it. Nice straight tree actually went fairly well. Now the Sycamore has been a b!!!h. Even following the same procedure.

 

My sincere condolences dealing with splitting a Gum tree.

 

Do you think it would have been hard to split by hand?

 

My guess is YES.

 

So you're really going to enjoy shoving that in your stove and watching it burn ?

 

Yea if it'll heat the house I will