Last night I headed out to a friend's property to cut some wood for the firepit at my house. He had a big maple about 36" DBH that had fallen in his field earlier this summer.
Cutting went pretty quickly with this basically being a giantic pipe. We cut from the break up to the first crotch.
Splitting was another story. This was the most twisted tree that I have ever worked on. You would whack the maul through a chunk and the bottom would end up splitting 6" over from where you started. Fiskars was no better than the maul in this tree. Noodled it into quarters then started splitting. Still needed to noodle a few of the smaller pieces but that's what tools are for. None the less, we had a nice level pickup load in an hour with two guys trading off splitting duties.
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Hope to get two more loads out of here this fall.
He also has a GIANT maple, 60-65" DBH that had broken off in a similar fashion about 12' up. They already burned the top of that but it would be cool if I had a big enough saw/bar to stump it.
Cutting went pretty quickly with this basically being a giantic pipe. We cut from the break up to the first crotch.
Splitting was another story. This was the most twisted tree that I have ever worked on. You would whack the maul through a chunk and the bottom would end up splitting 6" over from where you started. Fiskars was no better than the maul in this tree. Noodled it into quarters then started splitting. Still needed to noodle a few of the smaller pieces but that's what tools are for. None the less, we had a nice level pickup load in an hour with two guys trading off splitting duties.
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Hope to get two more loads out of here this fall.
He also has a GIANT maple, 60-65" DBH that had broken off in a similar fashion about 12' up. They already burned the top of that but it would be cool if I had a big enough saw/bar to stump it.