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If anybody's using a tyre to split their logs in and tried a few different ones over time any idea what size I should try and get hold of although I guess this is also going to be limited by the size of round I'm going to mount it into as well as the size of round I'm looking to split .... a lot of them are around the 10" size although I get quite a lot of smaller as well which I could just put several in at the same time.
I'd really like to get a bigger tyre that I could put a few 10" rounds into but then you've got the problem of what to mount it on that won't split when the axe goes through, I recently screwed some scaffolding boards onto a pallet to make a bigger area and spread the impact so it didn't split each slat but it made fairly short work of the board underneath (put the grain the wrong way which didn't help) when it split the log fairly easily.
I'd really like to get a bigger tyre that I could put a few 10" rounds into but then you've got the problem of what to mount it on that won't split when the axe goes through, I recently screwed some scaffolding boards onto a pallet to make a bigger area and spread the impact so it didn't split each slat but it made fairly short work of the board underneath (put the grain the wrong way which didn't help) when it split the log fairly easily.