Splitting 100 cord a year ........with an axe !!!

This guy is a wood splitting machine!!!


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Nice vid! Anyone ID his saw?

His buster and technique looks OK to me, reasonably fast. Not incredibly fast, but plenty good enough. Really impressive stacks though, that guy *worked* at that. I did see his skidder in the background as well.

I need a worker like that.

Cool old videos. Welcome to the site, I sent ya some welcome rep!

Edit: gotta try that angled swing thing next time I'm hand splitting.

Zogger, that MIGHT be an older Echo, but I can't tell for sure.

lone wolf said:

I need a worker like that.

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Every boss in the world wants that...

..and every guy who can work that hard all day long also wants to be his own boss, and usually is his own boss.

That's why I think some times it is better to remain small potatoes and do it all yourself. Keep expenses low so you don't have to gross as much, then be happy.

Like the guy in the vid, one man black smithing, one man 75-100 cord a year firewood. Not getting rich, but making a living, having fun, no employees to worry about "working hard enough" or wrecking (or stealing) equipment or showing up on the job late drunk and stoned, etc, calling in "truck broke down", no extra accounting and government paper work rules stuff for having an employee, all that noise...

technique

A good friend of mine(now in his 90"s), showed me that technique of splitting about 30 years ago. Works great if your timing is correct. I prefer to operate a handle on the splitter!

stihlguy said:

A good friend of mine(now in his 90"s), showed me that technique of splitting about 30 years ago. Works great if your timing is correct. I prefer to operate a handle on the splitter!

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ya, but how cool is it to be able to slice a wooden match in half? I guess I am fair to middling, don't know if I can do that BUT I AM GONNA PRACTICE NOW hehehehe I can hit the same crack pretty regularly, splitting the match though...give me an excuse to go find a box of them things, do they even make strike anywhere wooden matches any more? Haven't seen them on the shelves any place for like years now.

I'd race that guy if he was still around...he'd proly beat me but I'd give him a good run. And those guys on that hydraulic splitter.....what I said fifteen minutes after using a fiskars "you can't load a hydraulic this fast"

I'd put the fiskars SS up against his home made axe for that matter, but his is still WAY COOL for a home made unit.

Those have to be like collector axes now, I wonder how many he made? I'd like to try one.

He is sorta doing what that leveraxe is designed to do, or the "wrist snap" technique.

stihlguy said:

A good friend of mine(now in his 90"s), showed me that technique of splitting about 30 years ago. Works great if your timing is correct....

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Strangely, I find that my ax swing is nearly identical to this guy's. I guess I wasn't doing it wrong all this time. :msp_sleep:

On Wednesday, I cut down a 40' nasty-leaning Mulberry hung up in a spruce, limbed, bucked, and ax-split it into firewood, wheelbarrowed it up a muddy hill and stacked it on a pallet without any help. I just turned 41.
I hope I can still move as well as this guy did when I am 50.

Which makes me think, most of us here should be very thankful for the precious measure of health we each enjoy.

I'd take him to the cleaners. He needs to line them up in row and knock em' down, that and get a Fiskars.

Nailsbeats said:

I'd take him to the cleaners. He needs to line them up in row and knock em' down, that and get a Fiskars.

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Lets see your video !

Nailsbeats said:

He needs to line them up in row and knock em' down

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He tried that, but he was setting them too close together and his splits were knocking them over. Rookie....

And, anyone could be that fast with all those hot babes in the crowd.

blackdogon57 said:

Lets see your video !

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Go on youtube and search Nailsbeats. I have treework videos, never made one splitting with a maul and don't intend too. Run a maul in my sleep.

Imagine how fast he would be if he used a tire to keep the splits from falling over.

Any idea what kind of wood he's splitting?

Thanks for sharing that!
Awesome!
I think there is going to be an increase in wooden match sales soon!

gblass1 said:

Any idea what kind of wood he's splitting?

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firewood!!!! some of it looked like hickory to me

gblass1 said:

Any idea what kind of wood he's splitting?

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looks like red oak

stihlguy said:

A good friend of mine(now in his 90"s), showed me that technique of splitting about 30 years ago. Works great if your timing is correct. I prefer to operate a handle on the splitter!

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Isn't that twisting motion hard on the wrist? I didn't quite notice what was so unique about his axe other then it was polished.:msp_smile:

Johny Utah said:

Isn't that twisting motion hard on the wrist? I didn't quite notice what was so unique about his axe other then it was polished.:msp_smile:

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the axe was unique because he had a piece of round stock welded on the back side of it. you can see it in the first video