I don’t know one pine from another as far as id. The only wood so far that I’ve seen my 28 ton hydro not split is pine. I blew a high pressure line right off the machine trying to get through those rounds. Big rounds The wedge would bury itself right into the soft parts until it hit a branch/knot. After the line popped those rounds got drug into the swamp. Poplar on the other hand has lots of straight grained easy splitting wood in a tree. I look at pine a little crossways now. No problem burning it. Just never sure if I want to split the stuff. FWIW if you’ve never seen a catastrophic hydro line failure while under full pressure your lucky. Kill, burn and maim are some of the descriptors that come to mind.
Great score, buddy. I like tulip poplar. We got about 3 dump trailer loads last year. Dries fast, lights easy on some hot coals, helps get the other wood burning.
After missing out on my load of oak today, i went to my friends to split the poplar to help me feel better. Ended up finishing. It will be moved back here when ground is frozen solid hopefully in a couple weeks. Gotta move some wood first. About four face cords according to my calculations. First pic when i got there. Second pic when i left. The wood in the first pic to the far right is sugar maple and will get SS there eventually. He is giving me more room to stack so i might as well keep hoarding. (not that i ever planned on stopping) I can fit another 1 1/2 cords there as of now.
meant to respond the other night. I take wood based on ease of splitting. The pine wouldnt budge when hit the same number of times with the Isocore. Some of this poplar will get mixed with "general cordage" wood for sale next year as well as personal use. Mention pine or softwood for sale around here and people treat it like kryptonite! Sap factor is a big thing too. I took these pics the other day from the same yard i cut "your" pine logs. Has to be six plus cords sitting there. One trunk is over 3' at the bottom.
Wet pine is really horrible to split! I needed 4 wedges for most of these big rounds. All my tools are sticky now. I got them in half, now I'm going to let them sit there until about August.
why would you use something different for your tools ? fats like in mayo and butter will work as solvents just give your tool a good massage with it
You can also use mustard. The stone ground type with the big coarse grains of seed provide extra scouring power. Also the horse radish may enhance the cleaning.
With your parameters, I understand. Here in the NW dealing with so much Doug Fir and having a splitter I am used to the sap and some difficult splits. Also, there is no great bias against Pine up here!
