boltboss
ArboristSite Lurker
Hello. New to this forum and looking forward to participating.
I have been heating with wood for three years and I cut and split all of our wood by hand using a 6# splitting maul. In most cases I do not miss having a log splitter as I feel it is easier to walk up to the logs and split them than it is to carry the logs to the splitter. I also think the maul is faster since the cycle time of most splitters appears to be rather slow.
This year we had to cut down a huge (42" across) white oak tree that was storm damaged and threatened to come down on our house. I killed me to cut down that beautiful old tree but we had no choice. I have been working around the rounds splitting away as much as I can but these rounds are just too much in some cases. If I purchase or rent a splitter (horizontal or vertical) I will still need to muscle the rounds to the splitter which leads to my question.
Has anyone here ever tried using an electric jack hammer to split large rounds of hardwood? I have read that the better jack hammers will break up 6" concrete so they are clearly serious tools but I wonder if they can split the wood using a wide chisel bit or will it just bury itself in the wood. The advantage of the jack hammer is that I could take it to the logs and split them where they lay. Since I deposited all of the rounds next to my pole barn using my loader I will have electricity available to power the jack hammer.
Any ideas, suggestions, experiences are welcome and helpful before I just go rent a jack hammer and try it.
Thanks!
JN
I have been heating with wood for three years and I cut and split all of our wood by hand using a 6# splitting maul. In most cases I do not miss having a log splitter as I feel it is easier to walk up to the logs and split them than it is to carry the logs to the splitter. I also think the maul is faster since the cycle time of most splitters appears to be rather slow.
This year we had to cut down a huge (42" across) white oak tree that was storm damaged and threatened to come down on our house. I killed me to cut down that beautiful old tree but we had no choice. I have been working around the rounds splitting away as much as I can but these rounds are just too much in some cases. If I purchase or rent a splitter (horizontal or vertical) I will still need to muscle the rounds to the splitter which leads to my question.
Has anyone here ever tried using an electric jack hammer to split large rounds of hardwood? I have read that the better jack hammers will break up 6" concrete so they are clearly serious tools but I wonder if they can split the wood using a wide chisel bit or will it just bury itself in the wood. The advantage of the jack hammer is that I could take it to the logs and split them where they lay. Since I deposited all of the rounds next to my pole barn using my loader I will have electricity available to power the jack hammer.
Any ideas, suggestions, experiences are welcome and helpful before I just go rent a jack hammer and try it.
Thanks!
JN