Sir, your aim is on point! Good honest hard-work to keep your family warm. Nicely done. When I’m working a tough one, I approach it like eating an elephant- one bite at a time. So I work with the grain starting on the outside taking off a few inches then work my way around the round. Usually saving the knots for last.
I enjoyed your video, some suggestions: look for knots and put them on the bottom, it'll split easier; try chipping off the edges first, good for really tough stuff; keep making videos and learning. Oregon? Nice place. Thanks again.
That’s pretty much what every straight grain red gum splits like... It’s super annoying. But a great workout! I like your precision. The strikes are so nice and close together
Yes this round was super green, I knew it wouldn’t be easy. Yes I agree, a total workout, kinda what I was looking for. Thank you! I’ve been doing plenty of practicing
This seems like a more honest test of a Fiskars. Lots people testing them on pretty easy logs. But I get a lot of rounds like those, but often american elm, with lots of cross fibers. I'd expect the Fiskars to just bounce right off. I hit it a few times with a regular maul to make some bite marks, then pull out my splitting wedges and either the back of the maul or a separate sledge. Even then I end up putting ten or so wacks per wedge to drive them through. Hard to imagine a Fiskars working well for that.
Geeeeze that's a tough piece of wood, I just bought the same axe for splitting, thankfully I don't have anything like that in Indiana. Hopefully pick up a tasmanian axe next month for a comparison and well 2 axes are better than 1
Why are you trying to split it straight down the middle? Chip off some of the side and start there. But you probably already know that and this was just a demonstration? What do you think of the axe for splitting?
I just wanted to see if I could do it. I realize this is the hard way. The axe is great for splitting, but of course it comes down to personal preference. A maul is definitely more effective in its own way.
Look like at the beginning you work against the grind of the log need to work with grind of the log not against it and put knot at the bottom i splitted a 4ft tall 25inch round log with a knot in it took a min but got it done
You wasted more energy and time splitting that round down the center than if you would just chip a piece of the side over n over again...the more pieces you chip off the easier it gets....but its not hard to chip away at a round....and its alot easier to beat a small amout of grain than 2 feet of it.....im Dead serious
