Had one, briefly, that someone gave me. Looked impressive. Heavy. Really did not work that great. Sold on CL shortly after getting Fiskars.
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That is why I built my first splitter over 40 years ago.
I never split primarily by hand. I had an old homebuilt hydraulic splitter that ran off my tractor. It was slow as molasses so I split the easy stuff by hand. I have a selection of axes and a maul but the x27 is the go to. It really is a good product. If I had to nitpick, I don't love the shape of the swell at the end of the handle. Other than that it really is the cats pyjamas. Since I got my new hydraulic splitter, and I recommend one for everyone, I don't use the fiskars as much as the new splitter is fast. Sometimes I go out in winter and split by hand just to feel the body limber up. I do recommend the x27, it's the best axe I've ever used. It's not a hydraulic splitter though.
Since this is ash, mebby I'll see how she does with an axe. Lotta rock on our ground, an axe will get beat up pretty quick.
I'm doing most of the splitting but she wants to help. Who am I to try to stop a 61 year old woman that can hand split 24" rounds?
It much easier to hand split than drag the gas splitter to the tree or get those big rounds out to the splitter at the wood racks.
Had to add another 10' to the already 100' (20 plus cord) of wood racks. A local steel fabricating shop gives away 10' skids, screw em together into sections, cover with some sign tarp I have and done. Will prolly have to add another 10' before this ash and a big dead elm are cleaned up. This 20' will prolly go into a buddy's furnace next year. Neighbor has three dead leaning fenceline cherry that need to go also... If I'm lucky we'll get frozen ground and not much snow for a week or two.
Bought one like that when I first started heating with wood, straightened that handle quite a few times before I got smart and went down to an 8 pound with a flex handle. Mebby I'll look into a 6 pounder next.
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Clearing a road for 17 acre development up the street. Asked the guys for some wood. They had already cut it up this way. May try to get more if they have it by the road.
Correct, Iowa and South Dakota class both had 16’s but the Iowa had longer barrels and could shoot heavier rounds. Obviously both very deadly to anything that got in its way.
I have read up on quite a bit of WWII history although I probably forgotten most of it lol. There was one instance where two Iowa class battleships almost sailed directly into a whole assortment of Japanese warships including battleships and at least one of the big girls was there. That would really have tested their guns and armor.
The Badger Army Ammunition Plant
Just down the road from me.
Made bag powder for the big battleship guns from WWII til the end of the Vietnam war.
They removed it, mostly cleaned up over the last decade or so.
Just down the road from me.
Made bag powder for the big battleship guns from WWII til the end of the Vietnam war.
They removed it, mostly cleaned up over the last decade or so.
Circumstances will always dictate what you can and can't do with equipment.
I wouldn't be without ballast, and believe me when I say my back yard turns into a swamp. to the point the cub cadet can't dive through without leaving ruts. It's a give and take. First I don't have any big heavy 3 point attachments, (i borrow most that stuff from dad. But i have a lot of cat 0 stuff, not that any of it is heavy.) although I do have material for a weight box, but I've found that I barely have room to turn the tractor around between the house and wood shed so I've had to rethink how big of a box I can hang off the rear of the tractor, yet keep it tight in the back of the tractor.
My wood stove up in my cabin is the Sotz airtight kit for the 55 gal drum stove. It works great. I also have the full set of Sotz tools for it (poker, rake and shovel).
After breaking the wood handles on numerous 6 + 8 lb wood mauls, I used the Sotz maul for year, then larger Monster Mauls of the same design. Never broke the handle on one of the metal mauls, and I used them a lot.
However, since I got the Fikars X-27, the mauls have been all but dormant. I only got the Hydro Spitter after I split 15 cord by hand and developed tennis elbow. However, all the wood up at the cabin is still split by hand.
If you split regularly, and don't over-due it, I believe it is a healthy activity. In fact, when I heated the home by wood and had the Sotz maul, I made wood splitting part of my daily exercise routine, and I was in very good shape back then.
After breaking the wood handles on numerous 6 + 8 lb wood mauls, I used the Sotz maul for year, then larger Monster Mauls of the same design. Never broke the handle on one of the metal mauls, and I used them a lot.
However, since I got the Fikars X-27, the mauls have been all but dormant. I only got the Hydro Spitter after I split 15 cord by hand and developed tennis elbow. However, all the wood up at the cabin is still split by hand.
If you split regularly, and don't over-due it, I believe it is a healthy activity. In fact, when I heated the home by wood and had the Sotz maul, I made wood splitting part of my daily exercise routine, and I was in very good shape back then.
I was in a lot better shape before I bilt a splitter too, but my back like the lift and splitter much more then the maul or axe. I do split by hand from time to time but its rare anymore.
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I never liked those mauls. Too awkward and clumsy. At least fir me. I have one, but do much better with a regular maul.
I don't think splitting by hand takes a toll on the body either. If anything, its great exercise! I split several cord a year by hand fir almost three decades before I went in on a splitter with a couple neighbors. I knew this one old guy that lived in the mountains until he was 76. He split wood by hand his entire life! In fact, IMOP. Lifting heavy rounds up on to a splitter the wrong way can be hard on ones back and body. More so than swinging a sledgehammer or maul.
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Your right about the Bismarck class deck guns.
15" I just researched it. I thought they were 22"
I belong to a couple of facebook discussion groups pertaining to WW2 warships. You should see the arguments in there LOL.
How about the historic bravery of the Tin Can Destroyers of Taffy 3 that faced off against Japanese 18" guns but moved close enough to launch their torpedoes and turn back the far superior Japanese Fleet.
Just one of many heroic feats during WW II that saved our bacon!
While many of them lost their lives, they saved many other lives with their bravery.
Just one of many heroic feats during WW II that saved our bacon!
While many of them lost their lives, they saved many other lives with their bravery.
I think that would have been quite an experience to be on a warship. Certainly more harrowing being on something like a DE or aircraft carrier because on DE it doesn't take much to sink the ship and the carriers were the main targets of the enemy.My grandpa was on a destroyer escort in WW2 I remember all his stories about depth charges, crazy stuff back then
Yes, the Johnston and Roberts!!
I always thought the CO of the Johnston was a badass looking dude, he certainly stuck it to the Japanese that day.
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He was also mostly native american.
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/823
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