At the start, I was skeptical. We kicked it in the teeth in about a month. The equipment held up, and no one injured aside from self inflicted ones. I’d say turtle head pulled it off. The mummichog is very proud of his friend. Stay safe out there fellers!!!
@HWStix once you learn how it's not bad at all. Now I have split a lot of wood by hand, and I'm a solid roughly 215, so I have a little edge over some people, but anyone can split red aka sweet gum, or black gum if it's not too knotty. First I like to split it green, and I use a fairly heavy splitting maul, not a axe. The only way I found to split it is to not try to go across, I take a corner off and then another edge. Otherwords the wood will look sorta like a octagon, I work around it.then you will have a section that's all heartwood, usually I can then split it straight across. I had to take down several, tupelo and sweet gum last few years, they especially the sweet gum had gotten too tall and was shading my vegetable gardens. I split two pickup loads last year, but of tree was around 2 feet across, give or take a couple inches. It worked up almost as quick as red oak. People say all kinds of stupid stuff, that they are just repeating, you can't split it, it won't burn etc. I had to open cabin door today, got too hot. Now it does have to be split and dried to burn, it's extremely wet wood, buddy brought his hydraulic splitter over years ago, and logs would literally, pour water out as they were getting split!
Man that’s quite the clearing! You guys sure have made some progress 👍👍
At the start, I was skeptical.
We kicked it in the teeth in about a month. The equipment held up, and no one injured aside from self inflicted ones. I’d say turtle head pulled it off. The mummichog is very proud of his friend. Stay safe out there fellers!!!
You 3 make a great team.
It was defiantly a challenge for the Turtle, shags and chug.Thanks for your time.
Glad you got some rain, still too dry to burn I guess, almost there 👍🚜⛄️
So close for burn the rain was much needed.
I've been burning dry tupelo all winter, actually burns good, hickory and oak at night.
Turtlewood told me its very difficult to split is that true?
@HWStix once you learn how it's not bad at all. Now I have split a lot of wood by hand, and I'm a solid roughly 215, so I have a little edge over some people, but anyone can split red aka sweet gum, or black gum if it's not too knotty. First I like to split it green, and I use a fairly heavy splitting maul, not a axe. The only way I found to split it is to not try to go across, I take a corner off and then another edge. Otherwords the wood will look sorta like a octagon, I work around it.then you will have a section that's all heartwood, usually I can then split it straight across. I had to take down several, tupelo and sweet gum last few years, they especially the sweet gum had gotten too tall and was shading my vegetable gardens. I split two pickup loads last year, but of tree was around 2 feet across, give or take a couple inches. It worked up almost as quick as red oak. People say all kinds of stupid stuff, that they are just repeating, you can't split it, it won't burn etc. I had to open cabin door today, got too hot. Now it does have to be split and dried to burn, it's extremely wet wood, buddy brought his hydraulic splitter over years ago, and logs would literally, pour water out as they were getting split!