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Originally Posted by raymilosh
Anyhow, on Sunday, a group of folks in the community will be gathering to split wood both by hand as well as with a splitter. I may be running a chainsaw for a bulk of the morning, but we're going to have a loose kind of an assessment about which is better. When we're done, I imagine it'll still be a matter of the type of wood, greenness, experience, personal preference, etc.
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This has turned into a good thread. Enjoyed the humor.
I am still working on the many dead elm trees, so dead wood about 2-4 feet across. My wood stove takes wood 27" long, & I do _not_ make toothpicks, less sawing is better, so my wood is generally 26-27" long.
That takes a maul & wedges, not an axe. A hyd splitter is nice, but so many are limited to 23" or even less in length, and frankly lifting a big chunk of wood that high and running the splitter into it several times (I mentioned it is elm???) isn't all that easy either. I will agree, for an hour or less the maul is faster, for the whole pile the hyd would get my vote.
As to your 'contest' I also own the winner. OSHA would not like it of course, but one of those pto powered spinning wedges (like a Unicorn) will split more wood faster than anything else out there. Period.
A cousin of mine explained what they used to use to help the neighbors split wood. It was a large wedge deal on the edge of a big steel wheel. The flat belt pulley (or perhaps it was a pto, but this was an old-days engineered contraption) from a tractor would power the wheel, and you set a piece of wood into the shelf, the wedge would come around & smack it, you picked up another piece, put it in the shelf, SMACK, and so on. The wheel with the wedge just spun continuosly. He said timing with that thing was EVERYTHING, and I would imagine!!!!!!! Knots also made for an exciting afternoon.
--->Paul
