log splitting help

Doing it manually it sometimes works by spliting "up the trunk"',e.g. split from the bottom toward the direction the tree is growing.
 
great thread.

i also have started collecting the regular wedges like candy - they are great for making canoes and things as well as their log splitting job. - what i like about them is how well they keep my favorite axes sharp when doing landscaping - i just used the wedges to take a big root ball of Bouganvilla out of a tight space between some cement and a concrete wall without a trace....

two wedges are rarely enough on the big jobs IMHO. - i like to have at least four.

just grab one every once in a while at the store, so you don't have to make a big purchase all at once.

HTH.

vec
 
Kismet said:
ok, someday I GOTTA learn to look at the dates on the posts in a thread. :(

Two ways: One is a hydraulic splitter

The other is waiting for sub-zero weather. Makes the average guy feel like Hercules, even knotted wood cracks in the cold under a maul. Zero degree weather is astonishing for wood splitting.

WHAT year is it? :)
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Lol your eyes do not deceive you..it's an old thread. Never heard about the cold weather thing though...pretty interesting. In Pittsburgh we only have maybe one or two days actually below zero (add two or three more if you factor in a windchill) so I have limited chance to do it.
 
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