Sharpening wrong

[John_Mc]

At 71, if I can't lift it (or don't want to), it can rot in the woods. :laughing:

At 58, that's exactly how I feel. I have a hydraulic log lifter on my splitter and I still won't bother messing with the monster logs for firewood. A 24" diameter Red Oak cut to 16" long weighs 260# when green. Why wrestle with it when I have so much easier stuff to deal with?

 

[crazyal]

I use my tractor, lol. I roll them into the front bucket and then lift them so I can roll them onto the splitter. Also when they split the half on the tractor side falls back into the bucket. I find that's easier than standing up my splitter into vertical mode. My splitter has the wedge that moves vs the style that pushes the log into the splitter.

 

[dodge man]

I use my tractor, lol. I roll them into the front bucket and then lift them so I can roll them onto the splitter. Also when they split the half on the tractor side falls back into the bucket. I find that's easier than standing up my splitter into vertical mode. My splitter has the wedge that moves vs the style that pushes the log into the splitter.

I do the same exact thing. The reason I noodled these is some were to big for my bucket. Some were also really stringy and when I split the the first time, they didn’t come apart and I then had to wrestle them. Big rounds are very heavy but you get a boat load of wood out of just a few of them.

 

[Buggs67]

I use my tractor, lol. I roll them into the front bucket and then lift them so I can roll them onto the splitter. Also when they split the half on the tractor side falls back into the bucket. I find that's easier than standing up my splitter into vertical mode. My splitter has the wedge that moves vs the style that pushes the log into the splitter.

Same here. The bucket is then like a work table. I don't split as much as I used to but back then I'd put it in vertical mode and roll the big round to it. Then sit on a smaller round and get a lot of wood from one round.

Now I can't lift more than 50 lbs and any work more than 3-4 hrs will lay me up for a day or two.

Good info about the chain saw sharpening. I'd read that there are ripping chains but not recommended for hand-held saws. Sharpened at 0 degrees. I was ripping larger logs for benches and other craft projects, like turning bowls on my lathe. I bought a Farm Boss to supplement my 025.

 

[Ford850]

An old dead elm log I cut had growth ring layers in alternating angles and it would not split. First ring grew in a clockwise swirl. Second ring grew in a counter-clockwise swirl. And each ring was like that, alternating and forming almost a plywood affect. The log splitter would cut/slice through the grain but it was impossible to split, so only the height of the wedge would be cut. I had to noodle all the logs over 1' diameter, and then I could nibble them down with the splitter. My son talked me into noodling them as a test after I said I was gonna roll the whole mess in a gully and be done with it. He was noodling the logs and I 'split' them when he was done. It went really well actually, and our pace was about even. We had a nice pile of hard elm when we were done, so he was right and I'm glad we noodled them.