Have you ever felled a tree?

[Sleeping in EQ]

Timber!

[hostile]

Timber!

Just dropped 3 large pine trees in the Uintas and split a cord of wood this weekend.

[BigPiney]

Just dropped 3 large pine trees in the Uintas and split a cord of wood this weekend.

Do you have a splitter?

[hostile]

Do you have a splitter?

Yes. Me and my 18 year old.

I do most of the cutting and hauling; he does most of the splitting.

[BigPiney]

Yes. Me and my 18 year old.

I do most of the cutting and hauling; he does most of the splitting.

Good for him. Someone gave my neighbor and me a splitter. Other than a small hydraulic fluid leak, the thing is amazing and makes wet rounds really easy to split.

[hostile]

Good for him. Someone gave my neighbor and me a splitter. Other than a small hydraulic fluid leak, the thing is amazing and makes wet rounds really easy to split.

We were splitting standing dead spruce so they were pretty dry already and split relatively easy. Some of the larger logs are still wet so I’ll split those in the fall.

[cowboy]

Yes. Me and my 18 year old.

I do most of the cutting and hauling; he does most of the splitting.

I splits easier if you cut it into sections and let it dry through the summer. Even if it was dead when you dropped it.

BTW, the Fiskars Splitting ax is the best splitting tool I've ever used. I've owned it for 6 years, and I rarely use a hydraulic splitter anymore. Even splits hard stuff like russian olive and knotty pieces. It also never gets stuck in a log. It's an amazing tool.

[hostile]

I splits easier if you cut it into sections and let it dry through the summer. Even if it was dead when you dropped it.

BTW, the Fiskars Splitting ax is the best splitting tool I've ever used. I've owned it for 6 years, and I rarely use a hydraulic splitter anymore. Even splits hard stuff like russian olive and knotty pieces. It also never gets stuck in a log. It's an amazing tool.

I’ve got several large logs cut into 18” sections that will dry over the summer.

I saw that Fiskars splitter recently and was tempted. Now I’m getting one.

[Green Monstah]

Not one worth bragging about.

But, one of the coolest and stupidest things I've ever done was help a guy in my ward in AZ cut down his humongous palm tree. It was probably 35 feet tall, and he took it in halves. I was holding/pulling the rope to ensure that the top half fell into the street. No one present was a professional and this was pre-YouTube. I was impressed with how much the ground rumbled when it hit the asphalt. Immediately afterward, I showered and went to my senior prom. I was pretty jealous that a friend of mine went to prom with a girl I liked throughout high school, and I got suckered into taking a girl I barely knew. But my old crush and I have been married now for nearly two decades, so it all worked out.

[Walter Sobchak]

BTW, the Fiskars Splitting ax is the best splitting tool I've ever used.

I was looking at the very same ax, I kid you not, just last weekend. Which size? 36in or 28in? Both my 16-yo and myself would be using it. I'm 6'1" and my son is a whisker shy of 6' even (the description for the 36" axes states that it is "Ideal for taller users ").

[hostile]

I was looking at the very same ax, I kid you not, just last weekend. Which size? 36in or 28in? Both my 16-yo and myself would be using it. I'm 6'1" and my son is a whisker shy of 6' even (the description for the 36" axes states that it is "Ideal for taller users ").

I’m getting the 36”. I’m 6’6” and my son is 6’4.5”

[Art Vandelay]

I was looking at the very same ax, I kid you not, just last weekend. Which size? 36in or 28in? Both my 16-yo and myself would be using it. I'm 6'1" and my son is a whisker shy of 6' even (the description for the 36" axes states that it is "Ideal for taller users ").

I’m getting the 36”. I’m 6’6” and my son is 6’4.5”

[Joe Public]

Does nobody use a wedge anymore?

[Walter Sobchak]

I’m getting the 36”. I’m 6’6” and my son is 6’4.5”

Dang. Why don't you just leatherwork that onto a belt already... "Three Cords of Wood".

[hostile]

Does nobody use a wedge anymore?

I do occasionally. Most of what I split is dry pine/spruce and a splitting axe works fine and is more efficient than a wedge.