Most likely American Elm now that I've looked up what variety grows where I live.
Was around 5F degrees when I split it. Used my backup 5 ton electric splitter as my gas one is put away for the winter. The rounds were only 8-10"...
Almost all of my hardwood is maple, ash or birch. Bucked this one today that had fallen over a year ago, wasn't paying much attention and assumed...
It looks like they have a cable lock on all of them except the 661. :rofl: :lol:
[ATTACH] Getting a bit chilly here. Going to be burning a lot of maple and ash for the cold nights this coming week!
Just curious as I was thinking facing East-West, both ends would get sun and facing North-South only one end would.
I stack by age but have a decent sized staging area around my woodstove inside. Any odd pieces that are not quite ready to burn seem to season...
I meant to add that it was taken down during last winter by the local electrical utility as part of their every 5 year tree maintenance schedule....
Definitely softwood. We got around 40 pieces out of each log after running them through the splitter. Took 3 guys to load each piece on the...
This is yesterday for me and it's snowing another 6 inches until tomorrow. Was looking down at green grass this past[ATTACH] Sunday.
Yep. Bidirectional blade so it has to be. I guess I discovered one downside of that design.
The splitter still works but its definitely slowed down from the wood pieces between the ram and the housing. Tried flat screwdrivers and the just...
Thanks! It's just a Harbor Freight splitter. Similar to this setup. [MEDIA]
Quick 15 min trailer load split 30 mins before sunset. Love my bi-directional splitter with 4 way attachment.[ATTACH]
I tend to always move my splitter to whatever I've bucked. My back doesn't like picking up the same heavy log twice if it doesn't have to.
