Cherry covered in poison ivy on a hedgerow is very common here, did a few smaller ones back in the spring all covered in the stuff. Was tip toeing around PI this morning getting Samson off a chipmunk borough(stubborn little bugger) in my shorts. If I'm cutting around it try to wait till it's dormant(not 100%) pants over boots no chips filling the tongues up
Tony, I am a big believer in splitting wood in the vertical mode but you came at it in a different way with that sideways picture. lol Same here for October 1 hunting. I just came in a bit ago from shooting a few arrows.
Ya not very techy here lucky I even figured out how to even add a picture. Just bought splitter a few weeks ago so still playing with it. Stuff I was splitting that day wasn't very large and seemed to work well pulling out of truck and straight to the splitter the way I had it. I will have to play around with it and see what works best
Out of the truck and directly on to the beam is a good way to work. Saves you from picking up each and every round another time to split them. Your back will be happier in the long run.
Tony, if you do split right out of the truck then horizontal is okay. I find it much less work to stack up wood while I'm cutting (but I cut only in winter) then in spring do all the splitting at one time. That way we move the splitter out of the barn only once per year so we aren't moving it constantly, thereby saving work overall. This also allows me to sit and work which is much easier on the body. For sure because of a physical problem I could not stand to split horizontally as that would put me down fast; super fast. But I can sit and split for hours. Then, to stack, it is a simple matter of stacking right where the splitting was done. Some will split then move the wood again. We don't. During the winter we sort of pile it up where we want the next wood stack. So there is no carrying of wood to stack it. The pictures will tell a story. Starting to cut in early winter. Stacking where we want the wood piled after it is split. More stacking of wood during winter. Cutting all done for the year so now ready to split. It is early spring, usually March or April when this is done. Ah, finally the splitting is done. Ready to begin stacking now. The stacking continues. Notice that the split pile is right where the stacking is being done. The finished product.
