komatsuvarna
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A jack hammer has no were near that long of a stroke. If it did one could not hang on to it.
Jack Hammer wood splitting?
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A jack hammer has no were near that long of a stroke. If it did one could not hang on to it.
macattack_ga
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It it bad form to resurrect such an old thread, but the idea of using a jackhammer was posed and no one appeared to have followed though.
It does work!
I used a cheap ($125) 35lb electric breaker (it's red and can be seen in one of the pics) on some LARGE red oak rounds.
Other options were to use the wedges, maul, noodle or man-handle onto the splitter.
The jackhammer seemed like a better than moving the rounds again.
Standing on the round, still in the trailer, I position the bit inline with natural splits or with the grain.
If it appeared the round was not going to split, I'd re-position the bit before it got stuck.
The bit did get stuck once and I just pulled the jackhammer off the bit and put another on to finish the split very much like using a second wedge. (I've ordered 2 more bits. They are cheap.)
The jackhammer allowed me to knock these big rounds down to a manageable size that i will finish splitting with the splitter.
As for knots, not so much. But for straight grain stuff, yes, yes yes!
(re-posted of the same pics "Scrounging firewood" thread)
It does work!
I used a cheap ($125) 35lb electric breaker (it's red and can be seen in one of the pics) on some LARGE red oak rounds.
Other options were to use the wedges, maul, noodle or man-handle onto the splitter.
The jackhammer seemed like a better than moving the rounds again.
Standing on the round, still in the trailer, I position the bit inline with natural splits or with the grain.
If it appeared the round was not going to split, I'd re-position the bit before it got stuck.
The bit did get stuck once and I just pulled the jackhammer off the bit and put another on to finish the split very much like using a second wedge. (I've ordered 2 more bits. They are cheap.)
The jackhammer allowed me to knock these big rounds down to a manageable size that i will finish splitting with the splitter.
As for knots, not so much. But for straight grain stuff, yes, yes yes!
(re-posted of the same pics "Scrounging firewood" thread)
I just don't understand you guys that think splitting wood by hand is that difficult. I am 70 and my wife is 68 and we routinely split wood with our Fiskars. Red oak is one of the easiest to split and cut short like yours it would split with one hand. But if you think muckling a heavy jack hammer around is easier, well more power to you.
macattack_ga
ArboristSite Operative
Much easier & safer that this was.
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