Hand Splitting Firewood

[Wilhelm]

I want the slayer badly.

One of many projects that I need to get going and done - I myself want to make sure I have a spare "Slayer" and a couple blacksmiths I contacted refused to try copy mine saying it is a waste of their time.
I might have to mill my own out of a solid steel block.

But that is on a backburner as I am neck deep in a couple other projects.

 

[Wilhelm]

It may not be the perfect design, but it is damn close!

 

[jakethesnake]

It may not be the perfect design, but it is damn close!

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If you ever get around to it wilhelm I need me a slayer

 

[Gullet]

It may not be the perfect design, but it is damn close!

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I gots the perfect one!
Bunches 'O hatchets have gone thru my place, but this one has stayed.

 

[Wilhelm]

Lol it’s not really “gone”. View attachment 362048It’s somewhere betweeen that husky and that large round standing up. Just can’t spot the handle

Your wheelbarrow needs new tires!

 

[Wilhelm]

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I gots the perfect one!
Bunches 'O hatchets have gone thru my place, but this one has stayed.

A hatchet tends to be slender with a narrow wedge body, my Slayer ax features a fairly pronounced wedge.
Hatchets and axes have different application areas and can not be compared with each other.

 

[Wilhelm]

A hatchet won't be of much help doing this:

 

[Gullet]

A hatchet tends to be slender with a narrow wedge body, my Slayer ax features a fairly pronounced wedge.
Hatchets and axes have different application areas and can not be compared with each other.

Understand.
I collect axes & hatchets, I was referring to design more than anything.
No worries.

 

[Gullet]

Splitting fire pit wood today.
I love cooking on coals.
Oak 1/2 rounds, Cherry ect...
Some Pine Knot & Catalpa wood for easy fire starting.
Catalpa wood is crazy easy to light!
Not as good as Pine Knot but really surprising.

 

[jakethesnake]

Your wheelbarrow needs new tires!

Needs to go to dumpster. Pan has a hole too. I don’t care much for the double wheel jobs. Won’t get another

 

[jakethesnake]

Don’t like the plastic pans either. Got a pretty good one now. Honestly not sure why that one is still there. Probably planned on robbing the handles and hardware first lol. Can’t throw good parts away

 

[davidwyby]

I have dims for a slayer, just need to get on it.

 

[Moparmyway]

Link for this Slayer ??

Im on the fence about laying out $300.00 to try the GransforBrucks-inraisins splitting maul, or just putting a new edge on all of the other dozen mauls that I already have ……..

 

[davidwyby]

Link for this Slayer ??

Im on the fence about laying out $300.00 to try the GransforBrucks-inraisins splitting maul, or just putting a new edge on all of the other dozen mauls that I already have ……..

Get the dims from wilhelm and reshape one mebbe

 

[Wilhelm]

Link for this Slayer ??

Im on the fence about laying out $300.00 to try the GransforBrucks-inraisins splitting maul, or just putting a new edge on all of the other dozen mauls that I already have ……..

Mauls never worked for me, I don't know why!
Everyone swears by them, I don't get them.
Maybe it depends on the splitting technique and mine isn't optimal for the use of mauls.

 

[ajschainsaws]

Had a spare couple of hours not the best grained ash some of it had too cut with
The saw

 

[davidwyby]

The Isocore and I are doing good. I figure out not to bother trying to hit existing cracks, but to just split from the outside in.

 

[Seachaser]

I do both, but our oak will crack after a few weeks and is a lot easier to split.
I use an old monster maul splitter that has to be over 40 years old.

 

[stretch5881]

Many years ago, an old fellow showed me and a buddy how it's done. It was about 0 degrees out. He had us stand the blocks up on the frozen ground. He was popping those blocks apart with a half swing of a small single bit ax faster than we could stand them up. He said frozen is the key and a slight twist of the ax when it hits.

 

[davidwyby]

Many years ago, an old fellow showed me and a buddy how it's done. It was about 0 degrees out. He had us stand the blocks up on the frozen ground. He was popping those blocks apart with a half swing of a small single bit ax faster than we could stand them up. He said frozen is the key and a slight twist of the ax when it hits.

Ok, I’ll bring these up to you to split when it’s 0° :-D

not sure it would work as there’s no moisture in them to freeze. They are actually pretty brittle. If you hit them wrong they just sting you with chips and the chopping instrument bounces off. Hit them right, only once they are ready after a couple initial whacks, they blow right apart. Not stringy. In a splitter, the splitter about stalls when it first hits, and then they explode.

Splitter beware.

sometimes there is a solid core I gotta noodle. Thinking about making tiles of that to make a table or something, the wood is beautiful.