Yikes those are big, I hope you had some help. Would it make sense to bring the splitter on site to halve a bunch for easier loading? It probably wouldn’t take much more to bottom out your ride.
Heavy as a a dickens when green and full of water... If it's not too much trouble follow through with posting on the splitting, drying and ultimately burning of sycamore. Im sure some of us us would like to hear how it goes for you.... Not the most popular tree and we're all hear to learn.
Well I am gonna have at those sycamore rounds tonight after work with my Wolfe ridge and see how it goes, thankfully it has a log lift cause just picking those up to get them in my Toyota Highlander was a work out
Tell us if it creaks and groans like an old man! I'm curious if sycamore is any easier to split fresh cut, as opposed to lying around for awhile.
I’ll let you know tonight, this stuff is as fresh as it gets, I hit a round with my maul and it actually bounced!! It’s like a wood sponge
It's worse. I've split both, at least with hickory, you are getting really good wood for the aggravation. Have a axe or hatchet handy, if it's bigger that your wedge. Makes a lot of fine ash, not many coals.
Sycamore was the first wood i ever scrounged and after splitting it and burning it all over the course of two years or so I said I'd never take it again. Now I'm not so sure. I think the key is just letting it season longer than you think it needs. It's so stringy that, like elm, it has "built in kindling" so it will get going pretty easily. That is a big "pro" in my opinion. I think I'd take it again before box elder, but they are both of similar BTU quality.
I love sycamore!...For woodturning. Its in the maple family and makes for a nice finish. Offer it for free to locals for small projects.
So the it’s some nasty wood, stringy, stinky and I was watching the water drip out as I split it, ash on left of the last photo
