Splitting firewood; Some random footage of a recent job.
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2020
- This load was relatively easy to split, which was done over that week-end. The tree was taken down in mid Winter when the sap was low, which made the job of splitting fairly straightforward. Apologies for the intrusive wind.
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Nice work. Keep the blood flowing, when circulation quits, so do we.
Some 107 year old gentleman from the States who had his Driver's Licence renewed recently said that the secret to old age is: 'to keep moving and keep breathing'.
Good man Mick
You make it look easy.
Good to hear from you Paul.
I love your vids Mr. Kearney...Subscribed!
I very recently started splitting wood by hand as a hobby as I had two very large American Elms blow down in my back yard this past summer and did not want to pay to have them removed, one had laid up into a large Maple tree and took quite a bit of time and thought to safely get it to the ground with only a chainsaw...I have friend that wants the firewood and was going to bring his hydraulic splitter over as this Elm is severely twisted and knotty (the trunk of the one that fell into the Maple looked like a giant black licorice stick) but the Covid hit him and his family pretty hard so I bought a 5# Collins wedge and tried splitting the 2ft dia x 2ft long rounds with my 10# maul...it took me over two hours just to split two of those rounds so I cut them in half and bought a very simple 8# Collins splitting maul, I can now split those one foot thick rounds in less than ten minutes and still produce nice sized chunks of firewood.
I've poured concrete for over thirty years so I'm very used to hard physical labor but it's like a walk in the park compared to tackling those two Elms...I dont think I would want to do it as a full time job at my age but I certainly love processing timber into firewood, even tho I dont burn it myself...its obviously a physical challenge but also a mental challenge, I'm at the point now where I look at an easy round and go ho hum but give me a twisty/knotty one and a fire gets lit.
Thank you for your videos sir!
Ronald Elm is just about the toughest wood you can get to split.. Thanks for watching and for subscribing.
Hey just wondering, do you guys ever use a flywheel splitter? Pretty common but dangerous in prairie canada. I enjoy splitting with a maul just cause if feels bad ass. Takes a long time though.
I have seen these flywheel splitters on youtube and they are very good, but I suspect that they bog down on the stuff that I am splitting. A log splitter, depending on cycle speed, power, type of wood and other factors, is faster than a good human using hand tools, but not by a lot.
Hello Michael! How are you keeping?
Hello Wouter, or should I say Nikola. It has been a while. I'm up and running again. Stay safe in these times.