Youare
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You are right. The only time I could beat a powered splitter is when the wood needed only to be halved or quartered and when one or two hits with the axe or maul was all it took.
I wouldn't call that wimpy wood, I called it nice easy splitting wood. I remember chunks of knarly, knotty, twisted hard maple where you beat on them for what seemed like hours to get a wheel barrow full of twisted, knotty, knarly pieces. Or, chunks of elm that were stringy and hard to get even a wedge into. I wouldn't even try to split knotty pine or spruce.
Much of the wood I get now are tops and poles from thinning cuts. Ash, red oak, soft maple, a little cheery make up the bulk of what I have to split which is easy splitting. Every now and then some beech and hickory get thrown into the mix.
Seems like age 50 is the time when the body say you have to find a different way to do things. I tried not to listen for a couple of years but finally got the message. My son was helping me split wood this past weekend when were almost finished he sad to me, "you know this is the best investment you ever made". I told him it was the second best, the best investment was the money I spent on his mother's wedding ring.
Randy
You are right. The only time I could beat a powered splitter is when the wood needed only to be halved or quartered and when one or two hits with the axe or maul was all it took.
I wouldn't call that wimpy wood, I called it nice easy splitting wood. I remember chunks of knarly, knotty, twisted hard maple where you beat on them for what seemed like hours to get a wheel barrow full of twisted, knotty, knarly pieces. Or, chunks of elm that were stringy and hard to get even a wedge into. I wouldn't even try to split knotty pine or spruce.
Much of the wood I get now are tops and poles from thinning cuts. Ash, red oak, soft maple, a little cheery make up the bulk of what I have to split which is easy splitting. Every now and then some beech and hickory get thrown into the mix.
Seems like age 50 is the time when the body say you have to find a different way to do things. I tried not to listen for a couple of years but finally got the message. My son was helping me split wood this past weekend when were almost finished he sad to me, "you know this is the best investment you ever made". I told him it was the second best, the best investment was the money I spent on his mother's wedding ring.
Randy