Splitting FIREWOOD with a JACKHAMMER - Can it be Done??? 

My brother and I tried the same thing with a jack hammer about twice that size with the same results. And we used a very wicked looking chisel that I had fabricated just for splitting wood. We did it for the same reason as the two of you did it. We could NOT believe how well it DID NOT WORK. LOL

Ran a jack hammer alot and never thought of splitting wood with one. Like the inovative thought. Give woodhound Sr big 👍for that

That’s how I used to do the big rounds before I got my wolf ridge . But I would take a 3-4 inch log and make a wood wedge. Once I opened it up with the steel I’d drive the wood one in . Great video as usual. I’m catching up on the ones I missed. Thanks for sharing!

Good idea , you never know till you try . Much respect for your father .

You boys deserve a wood splitter...I'm only 43 and my dad started me super young In the woodpile...that's why I need one...I been wedge splitting for years.

I’m 76 and enjoy trying new ideas. I now know one more thing that does not work. I enjoyed your video.

Love seeing WoodHound Sr. On the job💪🏻. We get to see wisdom in action, some Vintage Steel as well as a Vintage STIHL! 👍🏻👌🏼Blessings WoodHounds!

Hey guys fun video. Both of you are ready for the big screen. Come on guys Senior's dad Norman would have you wedging off 2 inch slabs in from the bark first. Every old codger I knew would take it in from the bark a coupe- three inches first. I sure am glad to see the wedges. Not everybody has a splitter or wants one for a few cords per year.

I loved this video! Always keep thinking. It might have worked if you had a bigger jack hammer but they are also really heavy. Trust me on that. I have one. I just recently had some really big hickory rounds that I couldn't pick up. I just went right for the saw. I'm not a purist. I just get the wood split and move on. Try this though to make it easier. Cut across the edge from one face to the other (longways). Then put your wedge in and do the wedge and sledge or hit it with the maul. The saw cuts a lot easier in this direction and it makes a lot of cool noodles. Have fun! Thanks for all the cool videos. They make my day!

A thumbs up for the effort. It's always good to try new ideas for old chores and find out what doesn't work and what might be a big improvement. Good video.

Learning physics of wood splitting in the Wood Yard! ha ha After years of splitting large rounds with wedges and a maul, I finally bought Harbor Freights 10 ton manual wood splitter. Roll the round up on it, ski handle action, pretty quick POP and you got it in half. If still too big to lift, repeat with one half, then the other....then ready to go to my HF 6 ton electric to finish out. As Sr. Woodhound will attest, as you get older, you like to work smarter, not harder! LOL

Sort of glad the jackhammer thing didn't work out.. I tried that a few years back & failed haha.. Great seeing you 'playing out' with your dad.. mine passed many years ago now but I still miss the good laugh we had doing the chores.

I would have bet that it would have worked. Oh well, good try - back to the maul and wedges. Oh and good to see Woodhound Senior in action.

I used to notch the big ones with the chainsaw, in the same way, and use a heavy triangle shaped maul, called a Monster Maul, weighs 20 or more pounds, and bust them up in one swing.

I just use my fiskars splitting axe. I can usually split an oak that size in half in about 2-5 swings. The trick is you have to get that axe out as far in front of you as possible for maximum power as well as hitting the wood in more than 1 spot across the line you want to split.

Loving the sound of that vintage Stihl! What a great demonstration of different techniques of splitting the big ones. Thanks for this fun video.

OK! THAT IS NOT A JACK HAMMER!

Used to use a wedge and a maul back in the 60's in Rhinelander.

WOODPECKERS I have to give ya a "A" for the thought and trying 👍

😆 this was a great idea! I was surprised that it didn’t get in farther. A way for splitting big rounds like that that has been successful for me and the only other person on RU-vid I seen do it is buckin billy, is to go around the perimeter “shaking” off pieces with a splitting maul or axle until a smaller diameter is left in the middle. From there I can usually make center hits and it will pop apart. There’s just too much mass and tension to try splitting in half right from the start.

you guys are hilarious we had a few cords of oak fall on the property when i was a kid. My grandpa showed my brother and i where the sledges and mauls were, we whacked at those things all summer long

Having a little fun did you say? Lol. Those are some big pieces to work on. Godspeed boys.

I just love that saw. Need to have that saw on here more often 😉👍

It’s amazing you two haven’t frozen to death.

Still do it the old school way, it's so much more satisfying to split by hand (plus it keeps me in shape while I'm at school). Great content, keep up the good work

Great video! Gotta try new things and now you know..

Thanks Dan Fun video Nice try though 👍 Have a great week!!

Great video when I read the title of the video I couldn’t wait to watch it, I thought it would work better than a did. I bet this video will get a lot of views.

That killed my curiosity.

It’s been years since I split a lot of wood- but back then if I had a straight grain log such as those rounds came from I would 1/2 or quarter the log before bucking it to stove lengths. You might need 1/2 dozen wedges, but start on one end with a wedge, drive the next one further up the log, the next one and the the next one... you end up swinging the sledge less in the long run and can buck with a smaller saw. Oh you need an axe too, to cleave some of the fibers within the split.

I put my log splitter verticle when splitting the big ones

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I had thought the power chisel would work, but. They are designed for short throw impact. Targeting hard, items like concrete or metal. Log splitting seems to need a longer throw and push, opposed to sharp crack. But the longer throw isn't good for the initial entry. It seems that an axe bite to start, followed by successive sledge and wedge would be the right mix. Heavy but narrow axe to start. But a relatively light weight wedges would seem to pass more energy into the split. Maybe titanium. It seems you have electric power so you could rig up a trip hammer splitter. A motor keeps lifting a weight to a specific height, then you trip it when log and blade are in position. Mini pile driver. I'd take a hydraulic splitter and stand in vertically. Replace the hydraulics with a mini pile driver. After each successful crack, the weighted head would be pulled back up to height in the time it would take to reposition the log for the next whack.

Thanks, and keep trying to think up new ideas.

I realize there's a big difference in solid wood and palm wood, but I just had to remove four palm tree stumps that were cut almost flush to the ground. Almost impossible to dig out because of the many roots and they were on a terrace without much room to work let alone get a stump grinder up there. I took my sawzall around the perimeter roots then took my jackhammer to it like I was slicing a pie. Was dreading removing these until I came up with the idea. Just thought I'd pass that along. I'd try a spike bit on that jackhammer with that solid wood.

I really thought the sledgehammer was going to get realy stuck. Nope .didnt even faze the big round.your dad is the best.

I wondered if the jackhammer was going to work.. too bad. Thanks for trying even though it didn’t work 👍

Hard to believe now but I got by with a sledge and wedge until about age 65. good exercise....on the big hard wood.

I have 10 huge rounds of maple ranging from 40''-60'' across. They are cut 16'' in length. You gave me a few ideas. Cut them a few inches deep with my saw and finish with a wedge. That might just work, maybe. :)

Man I share the same passion & your right , never enough is the common thread ... Glad I ran across ya man & wish you & your family the best

If you don't want to use an ax or maul, get a spliter that will go vertical!

Madmen Agree I’m gonna use that to Cut the Roots of Tree Stumps !!

Very good fire woods give warm many Times

My different idea. My firebox is 10 high and 18 wide so most wood gets cut 18 . However ,splitters have a way of getting people to pick up things that should not be. My challenging wood ( elm ,hedge and hornbeam ) get chainsawed to 10 inch to burn vertically. Much easier to crack. My firewood secret for ancient hands , a set of ice tongs with a top strap.

I’m 71. Been cutting and splitting wood my whole life. Always looking for a better way. Still found that maul, sledge, and wedges are still the best. The really ugly gnarly stuff I throw to the side, and when finished, I’ll rent a big splitter from sunbelt.

Really interesting watching them load the Tractor then the Pick up ! Going to save the rest for later

I have used a jackhammer to split rounds but I worked around the circumference slitting with the grain and not across the grain. It's the exact same method you use with a block splitter hammer or the wedge that was used. its much easier to split with the grain than across it

Lol that was worth a shot

That was awesome back40! Always fun seeing woodhound senior out and about! I would have thought that jack hammer would have cracked right through them rounds! Learn something new everyday 👍🏻 you both weren’t letting them rounds defeat you tho 💪🏻 nothing like father and son team. Keep up the great work my friend! Congrats on 4000 subs too!!🎉🎊

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I was splitting wood and I have a jackhammer I didnt try it but I thought it would split wood. Another thing my uncle gave me the same model stihl like you guys have. Henry Ford said firewood heats you twice, it sure does even if you have a log splitter.

You need to be Hercules using this technique.

Shifty McWedge Splitter ! Awesome

When they're big and gnarly, I use the chainsaw also but I just keep going. I try to go right through the worst knot(s) so it makes better looking firewood and I have fewer un-stackable odds when I split the rest. Oh, and I thought the jackhammer would do better than it did but still not the best; I thought it would penetrate and make a crack but not split it apart very well.

Thought that jackhammer was going to be the ticket. Very surprising that thing can go through concrete but not really put a dent in that round. I did a little experiment of my own last weekend vid should be up Friday morning. Keep up the great work my friend.

I find the wood grenade style wedge really effective two taps with a lump hammer it usually stays put, then you can drive it with a sledge.

Great father/son time doin' it the old school way.

Damn,that's the way my girlfriend swung a sledge before I showed her how to do it. Mine weighs 18lbs

What i'am fixing to do on the big round logs to split them is? Using a power driver on them, or a JACKJAMMER 👌👌🤣🤣

Oh, for goodness sake. Have these guys never heard of SCISSORS? :P

When I’m forced to use wedge I usually cut a slot with saw to get the wedge started

Nice old school video

I welded a wedge on a pipe and tried a post driver. Worked fair but in the end I went back to an axe

yes you are really nice people

If the jackhammer has a blunt attachment, you should try pounding the wedge with it!

Its 2020 close to 2021 Its like this nowadays, the big logs can be sold as design tables. So less work more money. Now you can buy dry cut wood with delivery. ;) .

I know someone with a tree service company and they have a spiral cone drill thingy on there skid steer for big unmanageable stuff

Nice

Hey "Woodhound SR." just give a call 😁 I'll bring Splitzilla with the crane and we can take care of those rounds.

Me and my brothers&father spent many times sledging and wedging large rounds in the day.good afternoon to you men.later dude.

Glanced at the title and thought ''goodie, another rassling vidja!!'' Good stuff! Next video, ''How to Fix Sledge Handle''?

That was one tough piece of wood

My neighbor just uses a chainsaw for this. You guys seem to have enough to justify one if those portable saw mill setups.

The jack hammer was a good idea .... but unfortunately was the wrong tool for the job. The head is narrow and the drive distance is short. Works great on non-compressible materials like concrete, but wood compresses. So you get so far and then a. it's not wide enough to split and b. you end up making a pocket of tough material that won't let you go in deeper. Especially hard to fight against with the short strokes. In theory you could design a jackhammer bit for wood, but in practice there are probably better ways to split it anyway. If I had a million dollars, I'd design a head driven by something like a screw jack ... only upside-down. The head would be expandable. So if you can drive the head through, great, it's split. If not enough force you drive the head in as far as it'll go and then expand the head kind of like a drywall anchor and try to split it that way. But I'm not a millionaire. LOL And even if I was, I suspect there must be a flaw or else someone would have built it already.

i believe it would work, only if the log is smaller

I really thought the jackhammer was going to work. Disappointed that would have been pretty cool

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It’s hard to come up with new firewood video ideas, this is definitely an original one.

Neat idea on the jackhammer.. Bummer it didn't work. One of the wood jobs I did a few years ago the owner took his cat backho and split a few rounds with it..

mark the top of your blocks with the chainsaw nose throw your wedge in the mark and raddle the wedge with the jack hammer

Instead of trying to split it in half, just chip pieces off the sides and work your way around 😉

What i'am fixing to do, on the big round logs, to split them, is? Using a Power Driver on them👌👌🤣🤣

I believe the wood as ... Is exhorting too much Shock....

laying the chunk on its side and cutting works well, much simpler than using a wedge. two cuts and you have 4 pieces.

I found that starting both wedges and switching from one to another to get the split started.

need skid steer with upside down splitter. even better was backhoe , that was the bomb.

If you were to run that saw cutting from the side of the log, called noodling, it would cut about 5 times faster.

I used wedges and a maul in the sixties in Idaho.

Maybe you could use the chain saw to cut a groove across the top and put the wedges in across the top then use the jack hammer to drive the wedges in.

The oak trees in Florida . You need a nuke to split them. Nice Video.

all ya need is a vertical splitter never pick anything up off the ground just roll it to splitter and split nothing ever falls down where you got to pick it up again i sit on stump in front of splitter with cushion on stump for ass if you have help they can roll them to you if no help just roll few close at a time i never pick nothing up till its smaller

been there done that and I can say the worse wood to split by hand is american elm aka piss elm I have personally gotten 4 splitting wedges and a maul stuck in a single log of that nasty wood and it was easier to just cut the log completely with a chainsaw and not even touch the maul and wedges and I am now switching to a .404 pitch chain on my saw with a 32" bar which will cut down on my sharpening as the .404 does not dull as fast and is better for nasty logs

I had my doubts on the jack hammer, it's not wide enough would of just got buried. I don't have a jh or I may have tried too.

Was really hoping the jackhammer was going to work. Does Sr’s splitter go vertical?

Try one of those backhoe jackhammers that should work

Get (or make) yourself a pickaroon. Your back will thank you. I made one by welding a grade 8 bolt opposite the blade to a cheap axe head, and sharpened the bolt , welded a pipe for a handle. I also bought a fiskars. Mine works better.

Try a 90 Lb Ingersoll Rand Jack hammer W//wide breaker, should work Takes plenty of air though

Also we were talking about moving a large log with a truck. Buckin Billy Ray showed his method in a recent video to do that. This is something I have done before and it works well. I don't do videos so the best I can do is show you things that work for me that someone else does also.

Thanks for doing this. I was going to try and use a Jackhammer to split a stump...but looks like it won't work.

Must be a trick question.