I'm late to the party! It burns hot and fast, but still worth hoarding in my book. And the straight grain makes it a pleasure to split. Everything...
The little manual splitter actually worked alright on the few logs I tried from today's fresh pile. I haven't tried any of the huge ones...
I ended up getting the Harbor Freight 10 Ton Hydraulic manual splitter since it was cheap. It failed spectacularly on a many-year-old, oversized...
Thanks for the response. How many tons would you think are needed for splitting the most easy-going of live oak (ignoring knots and crotches)?
Is it insane to try to process this with the cheap 5-ton electric splitter linked above in #2? I'm sure it wouldn't make quick work of any of it,...
Amazing. Looks like something out of The Lord of the Rings.
Hah, yes, that's fair! It became a bit of a pandemic hobby we were caught in a 3-day winter storm power outage in early 2021 and ran out of...
I forgot that "live oak" is such an overloaded name! I'm in Austin, Texas, so this is likely a Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) species and...
Sorry, yes. It's the 2 rightmost trunks here that you see extending over to my neighbor's roof. At the very widest they are under 2 feet.
Replying to my own post. I need to have a couple trunks of live oak cut down from the front yard because they're hanging over a neighbor's house....
Sorry to bump an old thread. I was about to start a thread entitled "Splitting live oak by hand. Am I a masochist?", but I figured I'd pile on...
Yeah, they're definitely a match. In the attached photos, left is new confirmed Chinese Flame Tree and the right is presumed. I think what threw...
So I had a Chinese Flame Tree (cousin to Golden Rain Tree) die in the January freeze. I'm doubting it's enviable firewood, but I don't like to let...
Would love some help from the experts identifying this wood from Austin, Texas. I honestly can't remember where I got it. I thought it was from a...
