Starting to split some maple

[Rookie1]

I acquired some maple last week and borrowed a splitter to help.

 

[1967 Tempest]

Looks like a didier splitter!!

 

[Herd8497]

Recently cut a dead maple down I my yard and acquired almost (what I think) will be 2 cords of sugar maple. Maple is not my favorite to hand split, so I went to the splitter quickly. Won't be nearly as easy to stack as Oak and ash either. I have come a cross a bunch of "uglies"

 

[Rookie1]

I'm not sure what kind of splitter it is. It's a coworkers and I'm borrowing it. Kind of funky and low to the ground but I'm not complaining.

 

[Fred Wright]

Soft maple is nice, doesn't take long to cure to where you can burn it. Split & stacked in the open, it's good to go in about 8 months.

It does create a lot of uglies and odd-shaped splits, especially in the tops.

 

[palmrose2]

Tie down that ball hitch release. You WILL screw it up eventually if it's left in that position.

 

[blacklocst]

Tie down that ball hitch release. You WILL screw it up eventually if it's left in that position.

So thats what happened to mine.

 

[Rookie1]

So thats what happened to mine.

Lol. I usually do on other splitters I have used but ovelooked that one.

 

[cantoo]

Grab some wooden skids and raise up that splitter before you wreck your back. Put skids under the wheels and a round under the tongue, use tiedowns to hold it onto the skid. My BIL has one and that's what I did when I borrowed it. He actually sits on his knees to use it, no way was I going to do that.

 

[Rookie1]

I have an old set of car ramps that I back the splitter on to get some height but these pieces were so big and I was working alone so low was the way to go this time.