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Hand Splitting Firewood

Hand split wood green or seasoned?

  • Green

    Votes: 52 85.2%
  • Seasone

    Votes: 9 14.8%

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Mill some of that turkey oak and make a couple of handles. Good temporary fix. Maybe try duct tape? Lol. It fixes everything.
 

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I want a cornelian cherry handle!
Those are deemed indestructible by the old folk here.

The issue is to find a straight and long enough piece to make a 40" handle out of it.
 

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My left hand tends to slide over that handle section when I switch from chunking on the ground to splitting to size on the splitting block. :(

I have some thermal shrink tubing that I purchased years ago, might slide that over in a couple overlapping layers!? o_O

I will watch not to stress the handle too much, but I will need a new one no doubt. :confused:

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I have office tape wrapped around the cracked area
Seems to hold up for now. ;)
Your pretty handy with a drill, a couple of holes, some glue & some dowels can be a lasting fix. I've made a few handles out of extremely hard pieces of wood and while they will last a long time, some flex is good. There is good reason hickory & other species have been used for centuries, it has a good balance of properties.
 

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Holy moly. A whole field full of split wood.

36 trees drug to the landing. 7 tanks of fuel through the 044, 462, & 2171. Two guys 5 hours of splitting and cutting. One 79 year old land owner set for 2023 winter and one trailer load of 1.5 cord for myself.
Edit: two x27 hand split. Couldn’t do it faster with a splitter.
 

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36 trees drug to the landing. 7 tanks of fuel through the 044, 462, & 2171. Two guys 5 hours of splitting and cutting. One 79 year old land owner set for 2023 winter and one trailer load of 1.5 cord for myself.
Edit: two x27 hand split. Couldn’t do it faster with a splitter.
What kinda wood is it?
 
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