trailmaker
ArboristSite Operative
Shreve Oak is very similar to Coast live oak which is more common. Here's one on my property that looks like it's got "sudden oak death".
How would you deal with these beast rounds
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Shreve Oak is very similar to Coast live oak which is more common. Here's one on my property that looks like it's got "sudden oak death".
trailmaker
ArboristSite Operative
:agree2:Noodling is A LOT faster and easier on you all the way around,... If the saw doesn't like it then noodle once, then wedge and sledge until there reduced to a size you feel comfortable working with,...
That worked out pretty well today. I noodled then put the saw aside to cool down. Then I put wedges right in the noodle cut, then cracked off some blocks with the pry bar.
This is looking down on the round where the block snapped off.
trailmaker
ArboristSite Operative
With the view from that particular splitting location I would take the longest method possible.
We've got some great views but not much level ground. Here's an even better view from the top of the property.
That's the Pacific six miles off.
loadthestove
ArboristSite Guru
Very nice!
Looks like you done logged the top of your ridge and some of the ones in the first photo.
Plenty more to cut looking west though...
Looks like you done logged the top of your ridge and some of the ones in the first photo.
Plenty more to cut looking west though...
Guido Salvage
Supreme Saw Whoreder
Unfortunately, you will not find one of those in a store. It is a Sotz and I think they have been out of business for 15-20 years. However, there are some knockoffs around such as this one (which actually weighs a pound more than the Sotz).
Sis by side you can see the minute differences.
I have one of the original Sotz monster mauls. It has split a heckuva lot of wood. It will wear you out after a while though.
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Guido Salvage
Supreme Saw Whoreder
If I remember, the original Monster Maul weighed in at 22 or 23 pounds. Mine is the 15 pound version. I think they also made a lighter version as well. I used to have a catalog (it actually looked like a newspaper), but I sent it with the NOS barrel stove kit I sold last year.
Think mine's over 20, i know it feels like a ton after an hour of swinging it.lol
trailmaker
ArboristSite Operative
Very nice!
Looks like you done logged the top of your ridge and some of the ones in the first photo.
This area was logged pretty extensively about a hundred years ago, then it was used for cattle until the fifties or sixties. I think the background in that first photo probably was forested at one time. It's all starting to come back now that the cattle are mostly gone. Google earth has an aerial photo of this area from the fifties and it was much more open back then from all the cattle.
The forested area in the second photo has been protected for a pretty long time. Mostly hippies and pot growers lurking in there.
cjnspecial
ArboristSite Guru
That looks a lot like live oak and that stuff is hell to split. Don't even bother trying to split it with a maul or wedges, you will just wear yourself out. Noodle it or blast it.
trailmaker
ArboristSite Operative
Interesting. I've never seen the inside of the Live Oaks you guys have down there but they do look externally similar to our "Coast Live Oaks" and Shreve Oaks. Sounds like they've got similar splitting characteristics as well.
Locust Cutter
Sawing for Sanity
Kinda resembles mid-western 'Blackjack' Oak as well. It burns fantastically but splits painfully,...
dingeryote
Blueberry Baron
That is some seriously ugly lookin' wood for splitting.
I suppose that is what dehydrated Elm would look like.
Screw the maul unless you're one of those exercise loonies, looking to gain an extra bit of Cardio between Triathalons, or know one looking for some interesting "Cross training".
Make some noodles to get them quartered so they can be wrangled onto the splitter without getting a Hernia.
Have you considered milling some of that wood?
I'll bet the figure is outstanding.
Stay safe!
Dingeryote
I suppose that is what dehydrated Elm would look like.
Screw the maul unless you're one of those exercise loonies, looking to gain an extra bit of Cardio between Triathalons, or know one looking for some interesting "Cross training".
Make some noodles to get them quartered so they can be wrangled onto the splitter without getting a Hernia.
Have you considered milling some of that wood?
I'll bet the figure is outstanding.
Stay safe!
Dingeryote
watchamakalit
ArboristSite Operative
To answer the op.
Fiskars
If its too twisted or is a crotch that won't split it goes into the brush pile. We have way too many tops and available firewood to even mess with anything that takes too much work.
Thats how I deal with them....
Fiskars
If its too twisted or is a crotch that won't split it goes into the brush pile. We have way too many tops and available firewood to even mess with anything that takes too much work.
Thats how I deal with them....
I roll them up and log lift does the rest. Can be a hassle, but I usually got to or three other beer drinking buddies that like to help.
beerman6
Addicted to ArboristSite
Thats pretty slick!
