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bit of splitting today as the darn gum was so hard it just bounced my maul,, gonna be good burning tho

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Hardwood like that you need to split like a 50c piece - not like a pie

Doing it that way you'll find it just divides easily with the grain

I prefer to split hardwoods than the softer stuff - and you can do it more quickly manually with a blockbuster (per your pic) than with a mechanical splitter - I demonstrated this at an ag field day, much to the annoyance of the blokes selling the mechanical splitters

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J rider, what kind of splitters. Super split? How many man hrs go into that pile. Very impressive. Luke
I have an iron and oak with a 4 way on it. Hard to say how many man hours in that pile because I worked on it off and on since early January. I did make one roughly that size in about 3 weeks last summer though, with some help on the splitter. I do all of the cutting though since that's the fun part.
 
Hardwood like that you need to split like a 50c piece - not like a pie

Doing it that way you'll find it just divides easily with the grain

I prefer to split hardwoods than the softer stuff - and you can do it more quickly manually with a blockbuster (per your pic) than with a mechanical splitter - I demonstrated this at an ag field day, much to the annoyance of the blokes selling the mechanical splitters

:chop:


ta bloke yer right, work it around the edge use the grain to your advantage tho my picture was just example of a full hit penetration and yes agree again some hard woods split easy,, it the short grain stuff like sugar gum that will put up a fight i more often dont need mechanical axe happy with my maul just this stuff saw me knackered after a short while with little to show for ma sweat.. welcome to AS pop over here if u wanna yak with the mob
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ta bloke yer right, work it around the edge use the grain to your advantage tho my picture was just example of a full hit penetration and yes agree again some hard woods split easy,, it the short grain stuff like sugar gum that will put up a fight i more often dont need mechanical axe happy with my maul just this stuff saw me knackered after a short while with little to show for ma sweat.. welcome to AS pop over here if u wanna yak with the mob
http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/the-all-aussie-dribble-thread.175005/

Thanks mate - and sorry, it was only after posting that I noticed your post count and realised that you probably have a reasonable idea of how to split hardwood ...

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image.jpeg image.jpeg image.jpeg I am up to 45' long on the last pile I posted but am now close to the older logs so I moved to another pile I started in the winter. I hate to jump around but I had so many logs delivered in the winter, I couldn't keep them as orderly as I like. This new pile I'm working on was 35' long at the end of today. That puts me up to 160' of piles. Last pic was my reward once I got home from my moms farm.image.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpeg
 

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