3-Point Hitch Saturday Morning relaxing (log splitting with the MF)

[lpigott]

How much wood do YOU split with a maul??? This much??

You have to work smarter not harder... Use the tractor to lift the big ones...

SR

Buckin Billy Ray does WAY more than that all with axes! If you're into wood, saws or axes you should check his youtube channel out.

 

[GC1710]

Not to be snarky or anything, but wrassiling big rounds like that up onto the hydraulic splitter looks like way more time and work than just using an old fashioned splitting maul.

I cut up an entire tree trunk probably 25' worth. My back would die if I split it manually, plus bending over every-time you split to stack would slow me down. If I have some really heavy pieces I can lower the 3 point and roll them on and then lift it back up.

 

[1bayouboy]

Thanks GC1710......haven't looked at the power beyond docs......but seems we have the possibility to run about any hydraulic implement/tool from it....

 

[mapper]

How much wood do YOU split with a maul??? This much??

You have to work smarter not harder... Use the tractor to lift the big ones...

SR

About four cords of locust and cherry last week. Just watching the video it seemed to be a lot of lifting and turning heavy rounds, then the splitter seemed to move rather slowly. I certainly understand using a hydraulic splitter when the wood is gnarly and hard to split but stuff that splits easily a maul can be faster and no less effort than picking up big rounds and positioning them in the splitter.

 

[4570Man]

This pile is about 2/3 hickory and my 5" cylinder hydraulic splitter won't like it. If you can split it with a maul than you must be built like vin diesel.

 

[mapper]

This pile is about 2/3 hickory and my 5" cylinder hydraulic splitter won't like it. If you can split it with a maul than you must be built like vin diesel.

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Never have had the pleasure of dealing with hickory, did encounter a large maple with about 5 inches of curly grain around 24 inch plus rounds. Every one had to be split with sledge and wedge. Really could have used a splitter then, but they weren't too common in 1980.
As I stated earlier if the wood is tough and hard to split then a hydraulic splitter is the way to go, but if a round can be split with one or two whacks and the subsequent splits with one hit from the maul it looks like less effort to me, but that's just my opinion. Everybody should what makes them happy.
Oh, I just wish I was built like Vin Diesel, unfortunately I am just a slightly arthritic nearly 65 year old retired guy

 

[1bayouboy]

Sometimes a maul is just therapy...

 

[mapper]

Sometimes a maul is just therapy...

Or good exercise, when I was working on the locust and cherry pile I would wake up a bit stiff but about 30 minutes with the maul would loosen me up nicely. Thing is I just use it to heat the shop, at that rate I now have enough wood to last me 5 or more years. I'll be in my 70's then. Might take more than 30 minutes to loosen up then.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Buckin Billy Ray does WAY more than that all with axes! If you're into wood, saws or axes you should check his youtube channel out.

I do WAY more than that too, that is just a pict. of part of what I now have and I'm still in the woods.

I don't pick them off the ground to put them on the splitter, I work smarter than that...

SR

 

[4570Man]

Picking rounds up off the ground is another job for vin diesel and I'm not him. I'm not sure what the technical term is but I've got smooth bark hickory and rough bark hickory. The smooth bark is the better splitting of the two but it's still pretty stringy. The rough bark hickory pretty much has to be sheared. It's at least as bad as any gum wood maybe worse. At least after all that work the heat output is the best I have. Better than sugar maple or oak.