fire wood
grunt work when you can only get 2 pieces in a 5 foot bucket
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Wrestle with those kind and you can cut washers of your you know what! Looks like a sister to my tractor. Two years off the ground with good air circulation and you are in business.
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Piece of cake. Like those big rounds. Wood a plenty.
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Probably easier if your tractor wasn't lying' on it's side....
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grunt work when you can only get 2 pieces in a 5 foot bucket
I have put way more in a BX 25
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Noodle them big rounds.
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jimdeere: 31547021860635/comments/31547038998427
Noodle them big rounds.
I ripped 6 cords of wood out of a 6' dia. spruce tree like that .
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Bought one in 1989. 12 lbs. Have not found anything it cannot split.
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Then you havent tried it on piss Elm.
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Or black gum.
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Any type of elm is hell to split with hand implements.
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How about bo' darc? Grandad used it for fenceposts on the farm in Missouri. That stuff was hard as iron.
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Bois d’arc, also known as Osage Orange, makes a great fence post -- get the staples in it when it's green and they aren't coming out!
We were going to cut up some old fence posts for firewood. Ended up just burning the whole thing.
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Agree that elm is a pain. Sweet gum, black gum- WILL split with one of those. I got the monster maul because I had red oak rounds that were too big to move to a hydraulic splitter (5 ft across). I could use that to split them where they lay. You don't swing it like an axe, One I never tried is supposed to be unsplittable- arbor vitae. Don't know what bo' darc is- sounds a lot like black locust- insect proof, rot proof, GREAT firewood- WILL split.
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Wild Turkey: 31547021860635/comments/31547035621019
Bois d’arc, also known as Osage Orange, makes a great fence post -- get the staples in it when it's green and they aren't coming out!
We were going to cut up some old fence posts for firewood. Ended up just burning the whole thing.
I've known dozens of farmers in the area where I grew up and to a man, they all hated the Bois d’arc trees. On the other hand, my uncles knew the properties of the tree so they always offered to cut and gather the trees when asked to. Large numbers of fence posts from these trees found their way into many of our fence lines.
One of the best discoveries was the use of Osage orange for traditional or long bows. Fortunately I had a grandfather with the knowledge, skills and tools to help me get started learning the intricacies of making traditional bows. It was a good opportunity to fill some of those winter nights after finishing homework.
Best.
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Yes, chme, the Monster Maul. I have had one for 30 years, great maul. Love to split firewood.
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The one on the right, piece of cake. The one on the left, a little tougher.
Have a Monster maul, good on really big stuff. I have several smaller, sharper mauls that work great, unless it really gets ugly.
I enjoy splitting wood.
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Much easier splitting when it's been below freezing for about a week😅
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Never tried Osage Orange. Like Black Locust, the heat value is getting close to the heat value of coal. Here most of my splitting is red and white oak, hickory, sweet gum, and the occasional poplar that decided to die.
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kannoneer: 31547021860635/comments/31547040380571
Any type of elm is hell to split with hand implements.
Elm was used as a second tier stock wood on some military guns like the Yugo M48 Mausers. A few had teak wood stocks leading to the false rumor that they all did. I have seen a French M36 with what looked like elm.
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