Anyone ever half and quarter big oak rounds like this?

Yep...Been there, Done that

 

Pic's or it didn't happen

 

Still snow down in the valley?

 

Oh heck no. Those pics are of the oak rounds you cut for me. Taken in early march, I think they were.

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I don't take much red oak to the splitter. I can use the exercise and in short burst a Fiskars x27 will out perform and gas splitter. Nothing like wood that splits in a single strike of the axe.

 

Most of the time I will lift them with the tractor onto the beam. In the field to get them out is noodle time, shoulder dislikes the mall and wedge approach.

 

The X27 and Monster Maul just bounced of these bad boys...No problem with the splitter

 

Yea I have some big red oak with knots the size of a football so no x27 for those. Have to noodle them.

 

I'd be doing the same. I last four red oaks I have split have been 3' in diameter with the first limb 40+' from the stump. Beautiful straight grain wood that probably should have been turned into sawlogs, but I they were deep in the woods and I don't have the equipment to drag them out. All these trees uprooted in wind and ice storms over the last few years.

 

Same thing here
Some have uprooted. Some the tops broke off. Some just snapped right in the middle. Some standing dead.
All red oaks.

 

No , but would love to
But looks like fun
+ It’s Oak

 

Hey bogydave have yall emerged from winter yet?

 

Yea, Finally
Been a cool Spring so far.
Had a Couple days above 50° ,
Lakes becoming liquid water again

In the 30°s at night
Still burning