Hand Splitting Firewood

[IffykidMn]

I hand split most all my firewood. Just curious if you split wood green or split it after it's seasoned?
I split all my wood when its freshly cut. Just what I have done for 40 years.
Thoughts?

I cut mostly standing dead wood so does that qualify as green or fresh cut.

It gets split sometime after it is cut.

 

[RI Chevy]

Lol. It must be like splitting concrete.
Nah just kidding. They all get split one way or another. For me when it's green. Just seems easier for me.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

I hand split about 20-30 cord of wood a year. Green is easiest with Alaskan birch. Once it gets semi green, gets stringy as fk. Can beat on it with an 8 pounder, to no avail.

The best, is winter. The wood splits much easier when frozen.

I saw 52 below zero this year. And a 15-30 below zero cold spell that lasted weeks. Good grief do yah go through some wood when its that cold.

Hand splitting, tending a dog team, hauling water and clear cutting, keeps me in the same 34x34 pants I wore as a 19 year old. At 40, thats ah good thing.

Hydraulic splitters are boring

 

[RI Chevy]

Wow. Nice.
I agree with the splitting green.
Take care out there bud...

 

[Wilhelm]

As usual, turkey oak, bucked yesterday PM.

From rounds, to manageable slices, to stove size.
All with my 1.8kg lightweight "Dragonslayer" featuring a 40" long locust handle.
Gnarly knots that still don't fit the cast iron fireplace get noodled down in size.

 

[Wilhelm]

The butt end rounds had twisted grain, took some effort to chop them down to manageable slices.

 

[ajschainsaws]

Good day clearing up an older pile of ash and beech

 

[ajschainsaws]

Built this shed for a customer and cut up all her wood and stacked it in there already for winter

 

[Evan03]

I wonder if you built the shed for free

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[KcChiefs2019]

I wonder if you built the shed for free

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Wouldn’t really matter all that much if he did for free right? It only show that he is a nice guy . I would think.

 

[fearofpavement]

Some types of wood won't split when green. Sweet gum for instance will bounce a maul right back at your forehead. Once it dries it can be split. Elm is similar.

 

[ajschainsaws]

Some types of wood won't split when green. Sweet gum for instance will bounce a maul right back at your forehead. Once it dries it can be split. Elm is similar.

two names right there that’ll make you think twice about getting the axe out
And another is European acacia son of of a *b-word that stuff when dry

 

[ajschainsaws]

I wonder if you built the shed for free

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No I charged cost for everything usually she has the wood under corrugated roofing and tarps so at least now it’s nice and dry and the wood too saw up is near the shed now rather than stood up next to the trees in the orchards

 

[ajschainsaws]

Wouldn’t really matter all that much if he did for free right? It only show that he is a nice guy . I would think.

Thanks I always help the pensioners out , when iam fencing sometimes you gotta cut off the straining posts in hard ground I always drop in the tops split in a bag
To a few old people on the way home

 

[Wilhelm]

 

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[Battle Cross 2]

My brother has my hydro at the moment so the x27 and isocore have been putting in work this week.

 

[ajschainsaws]

Added some more to the shed

 

[Wood Doctor]

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.

 

[jakethesnake]

Added some more to the shed

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