Caught a break in the weather and fired up the splitter. Got through close to a cord. This splitter is starting to pay off as I find doing it this way is much easier than using an axe. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Man looks like your going through that pretty quick. We generally go vertical. Use a stump with s boat cushion. Find ot is easier on our backs.
Great job Reloader .. Old man hint if you throw it in a wheelbarrow its off the ground and easier to pick up..
Strange winter here--little snow, too much ice, hard ground, temps up and down to near 0 F. Easier to harvest however. Some of the butts are too big to haul so I have to split or noodle them to hump into the trailer. Anyone else noodle a big butt ? The frozen ash and maple won't split( the Fiskars bounces off ) so a tip from my friend the pro said to saw a 1"to 2" groove in the top of the butt to get the wedge started. Works.
I was happy to find I could operate this splitter in the horizontal position while seated in a lawn chair. Much easier on the back and let’s me get more done without break. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Nice video. Thanks for sharing. What splitter is that? Looks like it’s doimg a great job. I can’t wait for next month when we start splitting
Another old man hint. when you bring your wood over to where your going to split it instead of dumping it on the ground split it from the trailer. Also toss the chunks right next to where your going to stack them so you don't have to take a step or two to the stacking location. Your goal when making firewood is to handle it the least amount of times with the least amount of movement.
This is a lo tech operation on the woodlot. ATV w trailer, saws, pulphook, peavey, older back. The woodland is rough ground and well tree-ed. Tree is felled, lengths pulled onto trail for bucking. Any butt over 18"-20" is split or noodled for humping onto the trailer. Butts then go to a stack beside the woodshed for later split and stack usually in Spring. Like the "old man" hints. The best hint is to marry an heiress so you can get a big fat woods tractor with rigs for firewood. P.S. Test--where did the term "noodle" come from ?
Not only is it easier than using an axe, it is faster too. Some say they can beat it and perhaps that is possible in the short term but not in the long term for sure. Besides, when you finish, you still have lots of energy left but if you split by hand, you need a rest...usually.
Another old man hint here. When splitting, rather than throwing it into another vehicle, just throw it where you intend on stacking it so you don't have to move it again. This was back in 2009. First picture is splitting. 2nd picture splitting is all done. 3rd picture. Stacking in progress.
That might be so for now but as you age or your back gets worse, you will find that even the bending from that lawn chair will be extremely hard on your back. This is one of the reasons I sit so low; but there are other reasons too.
My "operation" is low tech also. Drop tree, cut into lengths where it falls, drive up next tree (old lawn tractor) and toss rounds into trailer, unload rounds right onto splitter, pickup splits and stack. In spring I refill my attached house garage with wood for following winter, so I toss wood into trailer, stack into garage till needed. So from tree to fire I touch each piece 6 times and only carry it once from garage to heater. Look at your whole process and reduce steps as much as possible. I could eliminate the moving to garage (2 handlings) for winter if I split and stacked right in garage but then I'd need to store 3 times the wood in the garage. Then I would have to sore boat/trailer and lawn mower outside under lean-too where wood is stored now. Possible, only one possible issue. Wife.
Many of us have found that this is the way to do it. It's super fast and very little work. Now, go out and buy a hookaroon to use while seated. You can get those rounds picked up and bring them to you without even bending over much or at all.
Backwoods Savage, is that really really you in the pic above ? Who knew ? Are you the same B.S. on that other errrrrr....more sophisticated site ? Curious minds want to know.
This old man does it slightly different now. I split back into the dump trailer. When the trailer is full I can back into the pallets, raise the dump with gate closed and stack the splits without picking them off the ground. Much easier on my back. Guess it depends if your back is allergic to lifting heavy weight a few times or more repetitive lighter weights
The splitter is just a Yard Machines. I believe it is made by MTD. I had to replace the valve recently. I don’t know how well this would hold up on the tough stuff, but most of this wood pops open with little force. 2nd stage of the pump is hardly ever needed. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
I always have the hook handy. Makes it nice as I don’t have to move the splitter as much to reach the wood. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
