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evan price wrote:He's using white pine. You could almost split it with a hammer. Try his fancy axe in knotty elm or good red oak. Then go back to a splitter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmtMv7Cz0HA
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Elm....argh. I have some 3'-4' diameter rounds in my backyard a buddy gave me. I'm reconsidering his "buddy" status...
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I'd like to give it a go -- but I'm not giving up my maul and wedges. Doubtful it would do very well with Eucalyptus when there's knots or crotches involved.
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blackeagle603 wrote:I'd like to give it a go -- but I'm not giving up my maul and wedges. Doubtful it would do very well with Eucalyptus when there's knots or crotches involved.
You want to see some REAL HARD woods, take a look at THIS scale (where Eucalyptus is about 1/3 up from the bottom, soft end, of the scale) - and imagine trying to chop some of THAT hard stuff (the scale is meant to measure hardness used for flooring)!!
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CByrneIV wrote:That scale wont help on matters of splitting. That's measuring compressive strength not engrain shear strength.
Some of the hardest woods split the cleanest.
Because they're more brittle?
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
Not sure I trust that toy on cottonwood, either. I learned old school, maul and axe. I've split wood by the cord. I've also swung hammers for money. The first rule with any striking tool is a square hit. As has been pointed out, this tool steals that.
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We've thus far avoided the temptation to jack an entire forum.
But what the hell.
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Lokidude wrote:Not sure I trust that toy on cottonwood, either. I learned old school, maul and axe. I've split wood by the cord. I've also swung hammers for money. The first rule with any striking tool is a square hit. As has been pointed out, this tool steals that.
No expert here but I have split wood, and I have broken concrete with a sledge.
If this thing does what I think it does, you need to come close to letting it go when it hits. Which is alarming, a heavy edged weapon that torques when it hits something so you need to *let it go*.
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blackeagle603 wrote:I'd like to give it a go -- but I'm not giving up my maul and wedges. Doubtful it would do very well with Eucalyptus when there's knots or crotches involved.
You want to see some REAL HARD woods, take a look at THIS scale (where Eucalyptus is about 1/3 up from the bottom, soft end, of the scale) - and imagine trying to chop some of THAT hard stuff (the scale is meant to measure hardness used for flooring)!!
Hard isn't as much of a problem as fibrous and stringy. Good clean hardwood solid very nicely if you hit it right. Elm...not so much.
Concur you probably need to slack your grasp before impact...and that is a bit scary.
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