I also liked the technique how he sharpened his axe prior to the race.
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Not taking any thing away from Tom Clark, that guy could really make splits fly , but the two guys with the hydraulic splitter looked like the keystone cops and that splitter was slower than molasses running uphill.Really depends on the wood. My record is 15 splits of oak in 40 seconds with the fiskars. Had pics of it here but lost in the great hack. I know that was significantly faster over the hydraulic splitter we were using. But..that splitter could do massive sweetgum rounds...tradeoffs. Nice clean straight grained, you can fly doing it by hand. Twisty or with knots, no, any mechanical splitter is going to be faster.
There's a video of the late Tom Clark racing two guys with a hydraulic splitter on youtube, he is using his home made axe.
Not taking any thing away from Tom Clark, that guy could really make splits fly , but the two guys with the hydraulic splitter looked like the keystone cops and that splitter was slower than molasses running uphill.
Yes, that is exactly it, that little flick at the last second. He was a blacksmith, that is his home made axe, obviously sharp......technique is vital using a splitting axe. Mauls rely on heavy weight, splitting axes on speed AND technique.
So far (hear them horns tootin in the background?) as far as I know, I am the onliest dude here to replicate the match splitting long ways trick.
I am NOT a big guy, I am slight, and short, I HAVE to rely on speed, accuracy, reading the wood, etc to split wood by hand. Of course, some times I can get tarded, blowing my elbow out this summer was 100% tard on my part.
Somewhat. They were milking it out though, fast on the levers, no wasted space on the beam, etc.
This was on the phony baloney reality show That's Incrediable , that guy swings a man axe but this contrived compatition was nothing more than a skit.Not taking any thing away from Tom Clark, that guy could really make splits fly , but the two guys with the hydraulic splitter looked like the keystone cops and that splitter was slower than molasses running uphill.
To be completely fair he should have had another guy setting logs for him.Well, there are at least two guys here who actually knew him back then, perhaps they will see this and comment.
I was not there. The crowd liked it, the eye witnesses, and to be fair, two guys and a splitter against one guy. think about if it had been one guy with the splitter against him.
I will contend, a reasonably proficient dude with a sharp splitting axe in clean straight wood could very easily beat one guy with an off the shelf entry level hydraulic splitter, at least for a short duration, say 1/4 to 1/3rd cord, perhaps even beyond that, given his condition as "real good athlete" level.
Ya think so? It was a year or two ago that I last saw the video. I might have to got back and watch it again.This was on the phony baloney reality show That's Incrediable , that guy swings a man axe but this contrived compatition was nothing more than a skit.
I doubt that Tom Clark was splitting this elm tree:
or this one:
But, on the other hand, I was rather impressed at his work. Regardless, I have never heard of a professional wood splitter. I suppose I was a "professional" when I split my own firewood and heated my house with it. Nobody ever paid me a dime to split wood by hand, and practically nobody pays me anything today to split it with a power splitter.
Splitting matches is old hat - I wish I could find the pictures from this old thread when I split a fly, but I seem to have lost them. http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/splitting-axe-vs-fly.231234/So far (hear them horns tootin in the background?) as far as I know, I am the onliest dude here to replicate the match splitting long ways trick.
Thats like saying hand sawing is faster than using a chainsaw.
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