Wood pile pics

[Douglas Ostrander]

Big wood

 

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Some pics from last year.

Blow down oak out in the woods.
Holz Hausen my first try at it



Big chunks
Same pile split



Splitter helps

 

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This year

 

[Ronaldo]

This year

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I really like the boom lift on the splitter, think that would be so handy. Piles look good!

 

[mainewoods]

Some of this winters wood, almost ready to go into the basement.

 

[Wolverine]

Andrew (my son) and I split 5 cord of apple this week (part of the reason my custom user title says fruitwood champion).

 

[Ronaldo]

Andrew (my son) and I split 5 cord of apple this week (part of the reason my custom user title says fruitwood champion).
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Do you have a deal to sell the fruitwood to meat smokers?

 

[Wolverine]

I do not. Years ago when I started burning apple, I was told I'd have to use veg oil for the bar for food use. I never pursued it after that. And I do have a 34T splitter. Apple is very stringy.

 

[Brewz]

Well its warming up here in Oz and I just went and split my timber for next winter.

Got a bit more to do yet but its a good start.

 

[Brewz]

Does anyone have a video of how the timber in the USA splits?
It all seems to be so straight sided and uniform.
The timber in my pic above was a nightmare. Some of it wound not crack even after repeated heavy blows and I had to section it up with a saw.

I still have a couple bits, I will have to get a video of it.
That small pile took me 8 hours days and I am sore!

Nasty, hard, cranky, interlocked, timber that you would think is fed superglue

 

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Not all wood found in the America's splits easy, the rest of the story of the picture above with the wedge, hammer and splitting mall, is that I had to give up and borrow a 22 ton hydraulic splitter, it did not much like it either.

 

[Brewz]

I like your Holz Hausen
Looks like an adult version of Jenga

 

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Worked surprisingly well, making another this year. Only difference being it's full of edgings and cut offs from the sawmill. I throw a tarp over just before snowfall, to keep it from icing up and such.

 

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Speaking of firewood, time to go make some.

 

[Brewz]

Aaaaaaaannnnnnd there is why I dont need as much firewood as you guys in the states thank god.

I have never seen snow in person

 

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It's(snow) fun to play in, not so much to work in. My buddy showed up and we put up a bit this morning. What started out as throwing wood into a pile, turned into an impromptu holz hausen. Will be the extra pile in case of sever cold, so I don't have to be out there cutting in the freezing cold. Another few hour session and this one will be done.

 

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@Brewz , Saw this today and thought of this thread. Believe this to be in BC Canada. Watch how he gives the ax a flip right at the point of contact.

 

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More of this technique.

 

[amberg]

That is the way my daddy taught me to split wood years ago. You twist the ax handle just when you hit the block and it will pop open and your ax will not go in the dirt. Which he would whoop my ass for! But I ( highly ) recommend to where some kind of shoes. As the ax can fly any where while doing this. Esp. on wood that does not pop open very easy. It mostly flies out of your hand to the right and sideways at a high rate of speed, as I know too well.

 

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Also notice lack of use of chopping block with this technique as well.