Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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Cut a load of red oak today. Had help as I talked the wife into going. The pile is getting smaller! Got 2 more to go.

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Thanks
 
Here's some wedges LOL
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-hand-tool/annapolis-valley/wedges/1010905627?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

Of the wood I burnt last year and the wood I have ready now , most of it was split by hand so I'll guess at at least 15 cord for me 4 for the splitter , I own 4 splitters of one form or another and it's more enjoyable to me to do it by hand with the utv loads I've been doing , the splitters get fired up on the larger loads .
Most of my wood only requires 1 or 2 splits , no big stuff like some of you guys but the pasture spruce gets thrown on the splitter regardless of number of splits because they're nothing but stringy knots .
 
Here is a Gränsfors wedge ('N') - only $79.50 in the Lee Valley catalog!

Philbert

Proly nice steel, but looks like it would bury itself readily and get stuck.

Anyone have one/use one?

I have about made up my mind. Based on the leveraxe results, stuff I know that is hard to split, knotty pine, sweetgum and elm around here mostly, I'll just cut six inch cookies and be done with it. Let em dry, anything will split them then.

but..we'll see once we get some good input on the test. I can burn and stack six inch thick pizza slices. I already know what my other tools can and can't do.
 
20141007_184140.jpg This is what you missed out on Uncle Mike. Dropped that last big ash for Wayne, and then got to work on the rest of the red oak. With it getting dark earlier I used the hydro splitter to just make them small enough to handle, going to have to use the fiskars and my two arms to finish knocking them down to stackable size. I might just buy a splitter, next thou, it might make life easier. There is now a enormous pile of wood down by the trapoline that needs splitting.............
 
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