Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Broke out the splitting maul

I haven't picked the thing up in 3 years. But I'm running low on firewood,..and it's getting cold. So I decided to split up those logs I've got from the last black walnut tree I cut down.

I've got enough to heat the house for 2 days. But I'll probably be too gimped up to build a fire tomorrow.

2 Aleve per half a rick of firewood seems to be the magic formula. We'll see if it holds true for tomorrow morning.

I love splitting wood and normally cut, skid, block, split and pile about 10 cords a year for entertainment. I don't own a wood stove but sell it for beer and hooker money. I get to cut trees for new shooting lanes, plant some new kinds and keep from getting fat. The snow is already up to my knees here so I likely won't get as much put up this winter. The colder the better for splitting wood. At -20 most blocks you don't even need to stand up, just one good crack and they bust right open.

Splitting mauls warm you up twice, once when using them and then again when you are standing by the fire

Wondering how much firewood you could have bought with the money you could have sold that tree for.

Get a six pound fire axe. Easier than a maul! Then wedge and short handled 8# sledge! Been using that combo for fifty years. Splitting mostly fir and pine. But some oak and madrone! Mauls work you to hard.

I always thought that a heavy axe worked better than a maul for splitting straight grained wood. Gnarly stuff is better done with hydraulics.

And this is for people who think their walnut tree is valuable:





Jerry

Fucque all that. I make an elevated V to drop the wood onto and I use the Husky 28" saw to split wood. I can stand and saw at waist level no strain no pain.

Black walnut trees are common as dirt around here. The road I live on is lined with them. I've got a big one right off the front door to my house. It dropped about a ton of walnuts this year. They're a nuisance to clean up.

Walnut does not heat worth a crap compared to oak, hickory, and ash

I'd run down to Home Depot and get a $300 electric log splitter.

says ts will split 20" logs that are 10" diameter.

I've got some oak that needs to come down too. I took three of them down back in the early spring. It's already gone up the chimney.

I also took down a big pine a while ago. I'm mixing the pine in with the walnut to keep it hot.

There's a big walnut stump in the ground that was here when I moved in. It started out about 4' tall and 50 inches across. I'm guessing g that it was cut about 10 years ago,...big burl of walnut.

I know that walnut isn't considered a particularly hard wood, but a big, burl walnut stump that got a decade's worth of seasoning on it will go hard on a chainsaw. A sharp chain will just pull dust off of it. It's like sawing concrete,...burns a long time, too.

Sawing length way through block, that's how guys with man buns split wood ! Nice pile of shavings to get rid of been there done that, no thanks. Probably too much soup and not enough beans in your diet! Bacon doesn't count.😁

I bought a boom to go on my old 8N. When I cut a tree, I use the boom to lift it off the ground then saw it off a piece at a time like it's a roll of bologna. It saves a lot of trouble from getting the saw bar pinched from trying to cut it while it's laying on the ground.

Save the energy for satisfying the woman. LOL

You might need a longer bar on that husky!

I’d hate to have to rassle these up onto a splitter, 14” long rounds of green red oak this size probably weigh 150# or more each. I try to cut a couple big trees like this one every winter and bust them up and stack them out. They’re burning nicely in the stove as we speak about a year later.
I enjoy cutting and splitting wood. 8lb maul is my tool of choice. Good exercise and satisfying work.

No picture, I screwed a tire on the splitting stump at the cabin, it saves a lot of bending to pick up the splits.

I feel your pain, but from digging up a sewer line. I'd rather split wood.

Buy a Fiskars Splitting Axe! Been splitting wood off and on all my life. Bought one of these and will never use anything else!

thats for sure. i lost about 15 big white and red oak to gypsy moths about 15 years ago and have been burning them ever since. some of the rounds are 30+ inches across. ended up with a hernia just moving them fuggers to split them vertically. learned my abdominal muscles ain't as strong as my arms and legs. but then my boys grew up so now i have a lot of help when i can wrangle them. red and white oak are the best i have found around here for firewood.