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Heck you can always rip the "big" rounds to make them easier to handle a sharp saw will zip right through and give you lots of long curly shavings in the process.

I used to "noodle". Don't noodle anymore. I find wedges ( at least two per round for those 20"-30") and a good splitting maul much faster. I don't have a set up to split those on a beam so I reduce them to lifting size then 4 way them.
I like the 36" Fiskars with the hammer head.
Beat in the wedges with one side and split with the other.

 

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For those griping about bending over to pick up splits from a vertically-oriented splitter, you're doing it wrong. Set the splitter vertical, then set a round a distance from the foot plate just sufficient to wheel the next round onto the splitter. Once the round is on the foot plate, all other op's happen from the seated position.

I knew a guy in his late 70's that heated his house solely with wood, something like 6 - 7 cords per year. He did 100% of his splitting vertical, while sitting on a milk crate, and swore by it.

I also prefer standing with the splitter horizontal, not because it's easier, but because it's much faster. But maybe when I'm old and tired, I'll be doing it all vertical, sitting on a milk crate.

 

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For those griping about bending over to pick up splits from a vertically-oriented splitter, you're doing it wrong. Set the splitter vertical, then set a round a distance from the foot plate just sufficient to wheel the next round onto the splitter. Once the round is on the foot plate, all other op's happen from the seated position.

I knew a guy in his late 70's that heated his house solely with wood, something like 6 - 7 cords per year. He did 100% of his splitting vertical, while sitting on a milk crate, and swore by it.

I also prefer standing with the splitter horizontal, not because it's easier, but because it's much faster. But maybe when I'm old and tired, I'll be doing it all vertical, sitting on a milk crate.

I bring my "long wood" out of the woods to the wood shed which is on a knoll. Long wood for me is 90" long, a length I can carry a few at a time with my grapple out of the woods. I pile them up, high on the knoll and cut them to five 18" lengths. I place the splitter in vertical position lower on the knoll and roll the rounds to the splitter. I split the rounds to manageable size, flip the splitter to horizontal and split down to burnable size. My rounds can be easily be 4' diameter, so rolling them is important.

 

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I bring my "long wood" out of the woods to the wood shed which is on a knoll. Long wood for me is 90" long, a length I can carry a few at a time with my grapple out of the woods. I pile them up, high on the knoll and cut them to five 18" lengths. I place the splitter in vertical position lower on the knoll and roll the rounds to the splitter. I split the rounds to manageable size, flip the splitter to horizontal and split down to burnable size. My rounds can be easily be 4' diameter, so rolling them is important.

Nothing like using the good old earth as a splitting platform.

 

[WinterDeere]

I bring my "long wood" out of the woods to the wood shed which is on a knoll. Long wood for me is 90" long, a length I can carry a few at a time with my grapple out of the woods. I pile them up, high on the knoll and cut them to five 18" lengths. I place the splitter in vertical position lower on the knoll and roll the rounds to the splitter. I split the rounds to manageable size, flip the splitter to horizontal and split down to burnable size. My rounds can be easily be 4' diameter, so rolling them is important.

I often do this as well, especially if the next stick in the batch is something I can handle horizontal. I'll quarter the big one vertically, and then lay the splitter beam back down to process them further from the horizontal position.

I also move my "long wood" to the splitter, with the splitter parked right next to the shed where I'm stacking. My long wood is usually 15 feet, that being the longest multiple of 18" that will fit in the 16' box on my trailer, but I will cut the fatties shorter to keep each stick under the 5000# payload limit of the trailer.

 

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For those griping about bending over to pick up splits from a vertically-oriented splitter, you're doing it wrong. Set the splitter vertical, then set a round a distance from the foot plate just sufficient to wheel the next round onto the splitter. Once the round is on the foot plate, all other op's happen from the seated position.

I knew a guy in his late 70's that heated his house solely with wood, something like 6 - 7 cords per year. He did 100% of his splitting vertical, while sitting on a milk crate, and swore by it.

I also prefer standing with the splitter horizontal, not because it's easier, but because it's much faster. But maybe when I'm old and tired, I'll be doing it all vertical, sitting on a milk crate.

I remember when I was about 40 or so and saw a picture of this eighty two year old guy hand splitting these chunks of wood and was inspired to wanna be this guy.
He was red red in his face but there he was none the less working his arse off doing something he had probably done all his life.
To top that, there was a local story of this 93 year old building stone walls lifting stones 150 lbs.
He said he’d slowed down a bit and couldn’t lift what he used to……cheez.

 

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I remember when I was about 40 or so and saw a picture of this eighty two year old guy hand splitting these chunks of wood and was inspired to wanna be this guy.
He was red red in his face but there he was none the less working his arse off doing something he had probably done all his life.
To top that, there was a local story of this 93 year old building stone walls lifting stones 150 lbs.
He said he’d slowed down a bit and couldn’t lift what he used to……cheez.

I mentioned the story of a tile guy working on my mom's house in another thread recently, doing the original build in the 1950's and then a repair on the same shower in the 1990's, and I had said he was in his 70's. I reminded mom of that story the other day, and she told me, "no, he was turning 92 that year."

I live in a very old and relatively large stone house, and thus have a mason or two here every year doing repairs, in fact there's been one here all week this week doing some concrete and paver work. The main "stone work" guy is in his mid-60's, and still moves multiple 94 lb. bags of Portland every day. He's had a few joint replacements, but keeps ticking. I do think he's a bit shorter than when I first met him at age 50, but that probably comes with moving big stones and heavy bags of cement for a living.

 

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I mentioned the story of a tile guy working on my mom's house in another thread recently, doing the original build in the 1950's and then a repair on the same shower in the 1990's, and I had said he was in his 70's. I reminded mom of that story the other day, and she told me, "no, he was turning 92 that year."

I live in a very old and relatively large stone house, and thus have a mason or two here every year doing repairs, in fact there's been one here all week this week doing some concrete and paver work. The main "stone work" guy is in his mid-60's, and still moves multiple 94 lb. bags of Portland every day. He's had a few joint replacements, but keeps ticking. I do think he's a bit shorter than when I first met him at age 50, but that probably comes with moving big stones and heavy bags of cement for a living.

Yup
Moving and lifting heavy weights at early ages definitely impacts height later on.
Can’t keep compressing cartilaginous discs and think you’re not gonna shrink later on.
I’ve lost almost two inches from what I used to be.
Now at 3’8”, I have trouble reaching stuff.

 

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Now at 3’8”, I have trouble reaching stuff.

3' 8"? Damn, that has to be rough. I think our kitchen counters sit at 3' 6"!

 

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3' 8"? Damn, that has to be rough. I think our kitchen counters sit at 3' 6"!

At least I can see what I can’t reach.
“Gimme some of that licorice”.