Second day splitting that tough Black Locust. I was having to drive my wedge 3/4 to the hilt to split 10" cleargrain rounds. Decided to teach it a lesson and drug out the splitter but had to clean up the manual reject pile of uglies first.
Uglies done with only 4 chunks needing a bit of noodling:
Area cleaned up and ready to work on the rounds. I dunno how many of them I will run through teh splitter before reverting to manual splitting again. Definitely several that are crotchy/knotty.
Another case of a drawback to a "wedge on ram" abortion of a design. They can only be used from one side. Wedge on beam allows working from either side. In the current case I had to unhitch from the tractor and then manually drag the machine into place over rough and sloping ground. Did me in.
Harry K
Uglies done with only 4 chunks needing a bit of noodling:
Area cleaned up and ready to work on the rounds. I dunno how many of them I will run through teh splitter before reverting to manual splitting again. Definitely several that are crotchy/knotty.
Another case of a drawback to a "wedge on ram" abortion of a design. They can only be used from one side. Wedge on beam allows working from either side. In the current case I had to unhitch from the tractor and then manually drag the machine into place over rough and sloping ground. Did me in.
Harry K