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She even listens when you talk to her. I think she senses the nature of a gentle person. That’s why she’s not afraid. A beautiful interaction.

How long do you have to e to let the firewood dry?? And when do you split the fire wood when is green or dry?

That ain't elm

Good job Sir.

Good work! th-cam.com/video/jh37t8H1g68/w-d-xo.html

Speak up, Mr.! Can barely hear ya!

What saying so true but sounds hard hear. I just split in circle wedge don't work in elm. I also don't use triangle mull just ax tyle.

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Very cool, If you know anything about ants you know how ballsy that bee was being!

I cut elm 2" long then it's easy. Try sweet gum it's hard to bust.

love the hammer! Love your stuff! Love you!

Lovely work mate, keep it up

To all the ney sayers, that was an American Elm. And this man is onto the right method. Although on his first slab he was too close to the center of the heart. Elm does not like to bust through the center of the heart like more traditional firewood’s are busted. It’s better to use a slabbing method similar to what this man is demonstrating.

Can't hear a word you are saying

I don't think that's elm. But if it is than whatever wood I'm splitting is ten times harder.

I have to agree I have never in my life seen elm that straight before. Not saying it isn't elm, just saying that's a rare case if it is. I can say that those that are claiming that it's ash can't be correct. The bark is much to deep/coarse while being the wrong color for ash, and furthermore, ash wood is consistently light khaki color, not light sapwood and dark heartwood like the wood in the video. Most firewood burning dudes should know this since dead ash is everywhere due the the Emerald Ash Borer killing off the species, leaving dead, dense firewood behind. It's sad what's happening to ash trees. I cut and split cord after cord after cord of it, nearly constantly it seems because of all the people asking me to remove dead ash trees from their property. That way I don't really have to deal with elm, especially since ash puts off more heat (more BTUs per cord) and splits super easily. That said, elm is still good burning wood if you can split it. Although the distant microphone makes it hard to hear you, I love the acoustics I get when you finally swing. The stack and shed make nice reverb and the microphone catches the impact sound well since it's closer to the wood than it is to you, especially since I had to crank up the volume to hear your voice. I use your technique often for any species if the diameter of the round is too big to split down the middle. I'm here to make firewood, not to show off the ability to split down the middle, and I agree that your technique helps to make firewood efficiently, and yes, the resulting right angles helps in stacking. Thanks for posting your video.

That's not elm it's ash it looks simular! The elm that grows here in western pa you ain't never going to split with a maul lmao! You need a hydrolic splitter and a hatchet it is so fkning stringy

Thats not elm. Ive never seen elm that will split that easily

That is not like any Elm I have ever split.. Even a hydraulic splitter has serious trouble normally. Every Elm I have ever split is a twisted stringy mess. and if there is a knot, fogetaboudit! If you cut it down even if it was dead it's loaded with water. In my experience in PA. I watched your video today and tried splitting 2 clean logs that were 20 inches wide with my Maul and wedges.. I'm a strong guy.. I gave up after 2 logs. The stringy-ness was eating my lunch. The Ash was a piece of cake.. so was the Cherry.

Very nice keep it up good workout

dont know what that wood is but the elm i have is so twisted even a hydraulic splitter has problems

all the american elm I have dealt with it stringy as hell and is easily recognized with it's horrendous smell for which it gets the nickname of piss elm this stuff does not look like american elm but I know there is more then one species of elm as well

no fiskars could ever do that. it took me 2 weeks to split a load of elm from a tree we cut down, where oak or locust would have been a single afternoon job. the worst I've found to split was mountain mahogany. ho......lee...........shit that stuff weighs twice what oak does and straight pieces simply do not exist. but it'll burn for damn near 48 hours in a good catalytic or airtight. it's BTU density is almost identical to anthracite

Least twisted piece of elm ever

That's not a maul. That's Thors hammer! LOL Nicely Done!

Needs a mike

Another thing to consider is where you want the air to go. The design that you criticized will probably push the air outward, and the one you gave will push the air inward. If you want more air to bypass the turbojet part of the turbofan engine, you probably want to push the air outwards. If you don't have enough air in the turbojet part, then we should use your design.

Lol makes t look easy

Nice job letting the maul work and not letting it work you to death. Took me a while to figure that out.

Yes

Get a tire and avoid the back breaking lifting of those big boys!

Here's a shout out to Gary Morris for impromptu background music & sounds Yeeeeesss!

Correction : The screws are #4 sheet metal screws pan head . Though probably any head should do really

how long did you wait from cutting the tree down till you split it? had it been drying long or was it freshly cut

looks like a pretty wood is it similar to oak...I'm not real familiar with elm but looks like you could make alot of flooring out of it or something.

I agree. Elm is the devil to split, but you sure do make it easy to split. How much does your maul weigh?

Elm grows in a spiral. Every 6 inches down the trunk is a 1-2 inch twist. And when split literal wood ropes hang on for dear life and the pieces have to be pried and torn apart. This may be splitters elm. Ha ha. That is quite the maul.

Good job, I will have to try your method. Thank You

Nice that you at least made it. In the late 70's (12 or 13), I built a model of a similar design (out of wood) that I copied off of a Popular Mechanics design for a manned glider. My model would of worked had it not been for the wrong type of wood I used. I always felt that soda cans could be incorporated into building one.

That's not elm.

Excellent job! I ROFL'ed!

Beautiful.

A project of mine

I have a prediction for you : It will not be debunked . In fact , as the technology of blade construction advances, this shape will become commonplace in turbofans . As well I wish you the best of luck with your inventions !

A model would be a good (and probably more accesible (unless you live close to and have access to a good engineering school) than computer simulation) method to test this ideation. I wish you the best of luck, as I am a novice inventor myself and think it is awesome that you put this out on the web for people to comment and debunk. Most all the best inventions have come from someones garage!

In theory, wouldn't this design pull air towards the center, working against the centrifugal force? so instead of mitigating the effects of this radial force, your actually doing the exact opposite.. This may in turn increase the torque necessary to keep the fan at a constant speed. i am an engineer at Purdue U and can assume that there are a lot of highly intellectual people working at rolls royce running optimization simulations constantly and id be surprised if this wasn't already attempted.

But this is one idea for trying to mitigate the effects of centrifugal force imparted to the air caused by blades of greater chord . The simulations sound like a good idea . Maybe I will just build a model of it and test it out and see though .

Thank you for your thoughts ! I think that one of the things that makes it necessary for impellers/fans/compressors to have thin blades is that if they are too thick then the friction against the surface would cause a larger boundary layer to move in a circular motion thus effected by centrifugal force . The ring is an option but it need not be heavy imo especially if it made of carbon fiber and i think the main force acting upon the ring would be centrifugal force keeping it nice and circular

I am definitely not an expert in the field, but I would think your design would cause cavitation and/or extreme pressure changes (and in turn temp changes) due the anticipated air acceleration path. Your suggested ring on the outside causes a lot of additional weight, which means a lot more energy into rotating the system. Just something to think about. If you a serious about this, try designing it in CAD and running it through some fluid model simulations.

Thank you very much !