That's awesome. I may need to try that this weekend.

 

That is way faster than using my log splitter, except for a piece full of knots!

 

But he could only use the chain once... he left it buried. LOL

I've seen similar ones where they would stack the wood inside of truck tires. truck tires would allow them to do several logs at once.

 

Thanks for the post. That is a great method.

 

Its great for soft woods I would like to see that with Madrone.

 

Very dry and straight softwood. Try that with a gnarly, twisted up piece of hard maple. I would have a hoot watching and finish a six pack b4 he finished.

 

There is no easy splitting for a gnarly twisted up hunk of hard maple, regardless of method. For the woods most chop, the technique does seem quite effective. I'd use the tire suggestion for the added capacity and durability of the tire as a holding mechanism.

I'm always amazed when I see a simple and straight-forward way to improve outdoor living. This is one of those AWESOME things everyone should do, but no-one thinks of.

 

Oh that was a beauty!

Thanks for video.

 

Wow - that was a stroke of smartness. Made splitting so much easier plus a handle to carry it to the pile.

Now how about you hard maple spouters come up with something besides BS ??

 

Work smarter not harder!

 

Back when I was a lot younger and more vigorous I use an innertube like that. slipped it over a few small chunks of red maple, walnut, ash, pine or whatever I had in my pile and I could split it in a hurry. Then I got to elm and that was the end of my tube and my patience. After that I made a lot of little chunks with my chain saw on elm whenever possible or I didn't try to split it till it was a year old and below -20.

That was back when I could get elm for free. People would pay to get it out of their yards but the pro's were charging $150 per tree. I'd do it for nothing and take the wood. Took me a lot longer but the price was right and I liked doing it.

 

notice that there wasn't a single knot in that piece of wood? if the tree he harvested that from would have been full of branches, it would be a very different story, (but if you have branchless spruce all over, that technique would work great all the time)

 

Same thing when they do the slicing and dicing demos for knives on the info commercials. For instance the tomatoes they have for their knife have been chilled till they are firm and the ones they cut with the competitors knife are room temp mushy. They always have a bucket full of tricks to make their product look good.

 

Is it just me or did he split that piece about 6 more times than it needed? I could have used that chunk in my stove split no more than 2 times leaving 4 quarters.

 

Do that with some cotton wood or black locust.

 

That's was impressive...thanks for sharing

 

great idea, i will remember that one

 

I will stick with my log splitter. This Oklahoma Oak just dont split easy with an axe.

 

I got to try it out today, and it worked pretty well. All I got was a piece of chain and a small bungee cord.

I was splitting white oak. It was a little wet from the snow the past few days, but not too bad. It definitely saved my back from constantly bending over.

Thanks again, OP. From me and my lower back.

 

This is actually really clever - I haven't had to chop firewood for a few years but hope I'll remember this next time I do! I always found the best way to deal with really knotted wood was to swear a lot then throw it to the back of the pile until I was desperate.

 

That is so simple I feel stupid for not thinking of it sooner!!!

 

Wow That's great.

 

Very clever!
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Use an old tire, or a bungee cord. We've been doing it for years that way.

 

I like to see stuff like this, it reminds me the great innovators of the USA are still at work!

 

mine splits in 8 pieces with the pull of a hyd lever then up the conveyor and into a dump trailer im to old for hand spliting lol

 

Split up a chord & a half last year like that. Tried a chain & bungee and keep slicing the bungee in half. Some of the wood is from the bottom of the trees where I'd cut to fell them, so, not a straight cut. Finally used a chain & metal spring, then I could straighten the spring with pliers if it got hit.

Wish where my splitting was done was level like in the video. I do it on the side of a hill, put the wood uphill on a 'shelf' I dig out. Reason is, besides living on a mountain slope, that's close to where I build the piles.

 

That's pretty slick