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Favorite "Go TO" non-powered tool for splitting wood
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<blockquote data-quote="Wood Doctor" data-source="post: 900915" data-attributes="member: 20385"><p><strong>Hand Splitting Logs</strong></p><p></p><p>I use a 2-prong approach. For large logs over 10" dia, I use a 10-lb sledge hammer and two or three 8-lb wedges as needed. When the residual gets down to 6" dia. or so, I pull out an 8-lb splitting maul to finish off what's left.</p><p></p><p>On occasion, with easy-splitting wood, like soft maple or red oak, I can use the maul by itself to split it all. My maul has an old hickory handle. To extend its life, I wrapped it with braided nylon mason line about 100 times up near the head. So far, that's lasted 25 years. </p><p></p><p>I like the exercise and challenge of hand splitting, but around here, lot's of firewood is very diffficult to split. Elm, locust, mulberry, hackberry amd pear wood are tough as nails. Even cottonwood is a stringy gorilla.</p><p></p><p>When pear wood is really dry, it splits under the log splitter like a cherry bomb explosion. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/dizzy.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":dizzy:" title="Dizzy :dizzy:" data-shortname=":dizzy:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wood Doctor, post: 900915, member: 20385"] [b]Hand Splitting Logs[/b] I use a 2-prong approach. For large logs over 10" dia, I use a 10-lb sledge hammer and two or three 8-lb wedges as needed. When the residual gets down to 6" dia. or so, I pull out an 8-lb splitting maul to finish off what's left. On occasion, with easy-splitting wood, like soft maple or red oak, I can use the maul by itself to split it all. My maul has an old hickory handle. To extend its life, I wrapped it with braided nylon mason line about 100 times up near the head. So far, that's lasted 25 years. I like the exercise and challenge of hand splitting, but around here, lot's of firewood is very diffficult to split. Elm, locust, mulberry, hackberry amd pear wood are tough as nails. Even cottonwood is a stringy gorilla. When pear wood is really dry, it splits under the log splitter like a cherry bomb explosion. :dizzy: [/QUOTE]
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