How do you split?

Haha

 

Do yalls Lowe's and TSC even have splitters sitting out front in the winter? Wood stoves inside?

 

Horizontal here with notation. Instead of noodling the big stuff I use a Fiskars to bust into pieces I can handle then finish them off on the splitter.

 

They blow the stoves out the doors in like February to get ready for the spring. Even though TSC had splitters on same memorial day I don't remember seeing any out front? Maybe they were in the lot?

Get

 

Used to sell hydraulics back in the day. Now use various mauls (no plastic or midgets, thanks) maybe with partial noodling at forks. Some saws are MUCH better at noodling than others- clearing chips is the big prob. PP5020, 6100 Dolly, 576XP are masters of that. Swinging a maul is much better for me than running powered splitter, and the tools are much more portable. Makes loading big stuff onto p/u possible by hand.
Whenever possible, I'll use a 14" bandsaw rather than chainsaw. Much safer, much smaller kerf- less wood waste. Quieter too.

 

A bit more detail..


I have 2 6cu. ft. wheel barrows. I load both of them to the max with logs that need to be split.
I'll park one to my left and one to my right.

I keep 1 log on line with the wedge ready to be split, and i'll keep another on my log cradle.
If its a larger log, i normally dont have room to have another log in line and ready to go.


Thats how i do it..

Maye i shall take a video sometime..
This kind of stuff is video worthy, you can learn alot from one another.
And with the way things are today, and with this being such an awesome place, we love learning
from one another.

 

Horizontal. If pieces are too big I noodle or use my loader bucket to get them up on the splitter.

 

Thats it im tellin dennis
You all know the only way to spilt is sittin on a milk crate

 

i prefer vertical for safety..... a big round cant fall far when its allready on the ground....

 

Horizontal only ( american cls 25hh ) . The log lift makes it so much nicer to get the job done.

 

I will vertically bust the big rounds into a pile of halves or quarters. And then flip back to horizontal amd finish to stove size. The base when vert. on my splitter is rather small and makes me have to push the round in or use a wedge or 2 to hold it tipped into the splitter. I feel I wrestle with a log more in the vertical position getting it into place.

If I have an able helper its quicker to just 2 man the log up onto the horizontal splitter. Still contemplating an x27 to try on the bigger rounds from the both sides. Or if I want a change of pace and want to take some swings...

 

this is my favorite splitter. It is the most fun to run.

 

Thats still a lifter in my book!! I will definitely put that board idea to work though!

 

Yes sir! But the noodles don't cook up real well, little on the tough side. The splitter chunks are easier to clean up and make good grillin' smoke/flavoring chunks.

 

You have to get that foot flat on the ground or the board won't work very well, tongue jack can get it flat on the ground pretty nice

 

But the noodles work great in gardens and fire starting blocks

 

The Fiskars helps me find clarity in life but i do 90%+ of my splitting on the horizontal as I am far more productive.

 

Use to split everything with a 6# maul until I joined this site. Lots of enablers are here for me.

Bought a horizontal splitter and now that's all I use, other than the rare occasions I'm busting up the big ones with my maul.