calmloki
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I still use my great grandpa's axe. Been through two heads and three handles, but it still works well.
Long as you kept the handle wedges...
I still use my great grandpa's axe. Been through two heads and three handles, but it still works well.
I guess I am just a sick person. I do love the quick cutting feeling of easy cutting wood. But...there is just something that gets me going of an ornery piece of knotted wood that's hard to cut. I will just keep smacking away until that sucker gives up. Sweating is very much involved.....and swearing....
For $281 I could rent a splitter a long time, for the tough stuff.
MRG
I don't have a chainsaw......I just keep beating on the wood until it cries "momma" and finally gives up. I didn't say I was smart......but I'm a terror when you get me going.....By the time I resort to the chainsaw, I have tried everything several times with the splitting axe, sledge hammer, etc.
My axe is a 94 strat.
Martin HD-28.
Stupid question - but if you are using a stove (not a fireplace), why even split the wood? From what I've seen of stoves, they get so hot internally they burn everything, I don't think you need that surface area to 'catch' like you do in an open fireplace.
I've read that they split it to help it dry faster. Isn't a whole log pretty dry after a season or two? Unless you don't have the space, why not just keep a rotating supply of 2-3 years worth of logs?
Or just split in half - I'll bet that is the most important with steep diminishing returns for each additional split (which increases exponentially in number of splits, though the effort is somewhat less with each split).
-ERD50
Got this old chopper 1 axe from my dad, a half century ago. Works fine on pine but a joke on oak...
My axe is a 94 strat.
I wouldn't mind trying one of these, but the cost is a bit high. And it sure sounds like he has really really dry wood which always makes splitting easier.
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That splitter looks horrible. Watching the twisted off center angle of the head as the tool is brought down just makes my wrists hurt.
Oak splits really nicely when green, unlike pine or fir. After oak is dry it's a bugger.