Yellow Birch can be ignorant. I've had wedges sunk right in, it and would not give and inch (it had a pretty twisted grain, mind you).
I would put as a second worse to elm. Yellow birch can be a funny wood to split, sometimes it cracks open so easy that you wonder why you used two hands to swing the maul and other times it takes 3 or 4 swings to start developing a crack.
Black Gum makes elm look easy!
Black gum is the worst there is....bar none!
What is this "split by hand" you speak of...:monkey:
Those of you that split all your heating wood by hand are far better men than I...
Black Cherry is one of the easier for me.
Interesting that your is twisted and difficult
Hickory has been my worst. ... often it has to be run the full length of the ram because it is so stringy.
Black gum, black locust ...
Interesting differences here, folks. Black cherry is a piece of cake for me. Hickory too. Black locust? One of the easiest! Straight grained and just pops open!
I suspect we're calling different trees by the same names. Probably regional differences, coupled with the fact that most of us don't know how to ID trees as well as we think we do!
Always good having a few elm rounds on hand. For when there's company.
Usually the gals like to talk amonsgt themselves. Us fellas usually head out to the barn or else to the woodpile. Even my non-woodheat friends like to mosey on out.
Gee, that's a lotta wood.
Yep. Split it with a maul. Like this. (Demolish an oak round by way of demonstration.). Here, you try. (put elm round on stump. Enjoy the free entertainment.)
Cruel, very cruel
But somehow brilliant in its simplicity.
Take Care
BL might be easier to split when dried but when green ive alwayse thought it was hard to split.
Elm.
Here are a couple pics of my elm experiment. Notice how small the log is. The wedge was swallowed by this elm round. It never did split.
It never split?So what did you do?Just throw the log and wedge in the fire?
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