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Hand Splitting Firewood

Hand split wood green or seasoned?

  • Green

    Votes: 53 85.5%
  • Seasone

    Votes: 9 14.5%

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I had a stainless steel wrap on my ax previous to the current handle, it didn't fit on the new handle so I wrapped simple duck tape around it.
I’ve got some stuff that’s about like a hard cast when someone breaks an arm. I put it around mine but it’s not exactly a perfect setup. It’s ok but it didn’t stay put as well as I had hoped. That’s why I put it on mine too same reason
 

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On my next handle I will most likely make a new stainless steel sheet wrap.

At the thousands of swings one makes splitting rounds one is bound to hit the handle eventually, no big deal. :)
 

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Logs cut that short work very well in potbelly stoves. I have a few of those customers, but most want them 16" to 18" and some fireplace customers even longer.

One thing for sure, short rounds are easier to hand split. Stacking them is yet another issue.

Over here the normal length is 9” to 10” logs our stoves are a lot smaller
And customers don’t like anything split too big or too long

it saves a lot of work if you can make em longer
 

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What’s the green wrap you’re running on your axe?

It’s vetwrap or cohesive bandage with electrical tape wrapped around just to save the handle cheap and easily replaced after a a few mis swings
and It’s a bigger grip when you got a slender handle
 

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Over here the normal length is 9” to 10” logs our stoves are a lot smaller
And customers don’t like anything split too big or too long

it saves a lot of work if you can make em longer
Perhaps, but longer logs, 16" to 18" is what many people request. I have tried delivering logs split from rounds cut as short as you show here, and customers will throw them back into the truck's bed and demand either an immediate discount or that I just drive away. That includes both dry oak and ash. The length is critical in my book.
 

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Over here the normal length is 9” to 10” logs our stoves are a lot smaller
And customers don’t like anything split too big or too long

it saves a lot of work if you can make em longer
In my area people want their firewood bucked quite short too, from 10" to 13" for the most part.
Rarely 14"+, nothing over 18".

Many "want" precise lengths and frown upon shorter/longer firewood pieces.

FFS, it's firewood!

The silly wishes and demands are one of the reasons why I am cutting back bucking other peoples (relatives, friends, neighbors) firewood logs.
 

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My solution was to keep all the shorties separate from the ones most in demand (16" to 18"). I recall the last truckload of shorties I delivered contained at least 600 splits. The buyer had a fabulous antique potbelly stove and was thrilled to receive them:
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Is that a shop or living quarters? Looks neat!
 

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Is that a shop or living quarters? Looks neat!
Its a large shop where he stores trucks, tools, and equipment. It has an office attached and a small entertainment area that surrounds the stove. He cleans, installs, and services chimneys, stoves, and fireplaces. Quite a layout to say the least. No log that he burns can be much longer than a foot.
 

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Its a large shop where he stores trucks, tools, and equipment. It has an office attached and a small entertainment area that surrounds the stove. He cleans, installs, and services chimneys, stoves, and fireplaces. Quite a layout to say the least. No log that he burns can be much longer than a foot.
Neat, I wish my shop could look like that lol
 

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My solution was to keep all the shorties separate from the ones most in demand (16" to 18"). I recall the last truckload of shorties I delivered contained at least 600 splits. The buyer had a fabulous antique potbelly stove and was thrilled to receive them:
View attachment 355422

that’s a cracking stove
 

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I was talking the wraps I put on those handles I mentioned them a page back I think I’d try something different next time but they’ve held up respectable

sorry I didn’t get it earlier but yeah that wrap looks like it’s working alright
 
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