That brings out early teens memories. In the mid 70's, I helped my Dad splitting ash and elm with wedges and sledge hammers. Mind you, we did it when the weather was in the low minuses. Eventually, everything cracked after a few swings but, those logs fought us until they were, in "distinct' pieces. I don't miss those miserable times, with the "old mentor" but, I miss him. I raise my cup of coffee and offer a toast, to hard working Men.
When I'm off the mark a little splitting with an axe, in my head I can hear, "you got to hit it in the same place!" Angry but true words of wisdom from my dad, gone 5 years now.
Good morning Chris, be careful of those lines, flying off the wedge, I have an axis, and I was splitting some rock Maple couple months ago, and it exploded off the wedge from my axis Spliter end it hit the end of my thumb and I tore the tendon and just recently had it surgically repaired. So the end of the story is try to read your wood while splitting it can get you end of story.
Morning coffee watching Chris. That cat sure buggered off when you started the splitter. We have had a stray here for over a month. Located its owner so trapped it monday and took it home ..... 10km away. Cat has been a great distraction since pooch passed away Christmas Day
All right Chris..... I'm ready for ya tday.... Brandy, Bourban, Shine, Tequila, Vodka.... What music will get the toe tappin to add a splash in my coffee.... Good Morning Woodhounds!
Rainin cats n dogs down here in south central Ohio....45°F we saw the sun yesterday.... 2nd time since Christmas!! yea!!! Bundle up and stay safe up north the weather Guessers are saying cold, wind n snow next few weeks north of Interstate 70
Was thinking about cycle-time the other day. With auto-cycle, my splitter is 6.5sec. Plenty quick for me. It allows me to work at a pace that I can handle all day. To me that's more important that having the fastest splitter out there. I settle into a groove and can rest maybe a second or half-second each cycle when the rounds are close.
Nice to see you put oil on the splitter but please don't put it on the Piston cuz the next Pistons wet wood oil it brings in dust under the seal and that's what will cause your that will cause your piston to leak your break to seal in the benefit back into the seal small Rubber seal dirt gets up under that it rips it always keep the Piston dry it gets lubricated when it's back-and-forth no problem never never put oil on a piston
Morning coffee “In the wood yard”. Just a little envious. Too much snow for me to do any firewood. Thanks for sharing. Happy February from Northern Ontario!
The worst part of that type of wood is it stacks like a$$$$$. It makes the best stackers look incompetent. Nothing worse than a messy stack and I know I have some and wife and kids make random comments about them. My one daughter told me there is not enough lipstick for that one. Lol.
Midwest, how are you weathering the storm. We are right on the line for sleet. Winds 30 mph. Everything is coated with ice and then sleet. North of us by 20 miles is snow. South of us by 20 miles is rain, freezing on contact. South of us has power outages. Wisconsin Electric is getting help from crews from Kentucky.
Good production day both the processing and the video. The tree species i.d.ing and the time lapse of the trailer filling up are favorites. Am marking March 8th on my calendar to see what this snowzilla storm did to Bertlandia . It's mother nature's turn to do the dumping If ! You can believe the weather people. Thanks for sharing today's exploits.
@@BertsCustomCuts Easily understandable , There's been some pretty darn good wood yarding weather lately, (For February anyway) And it's probably pretty tough to stay inside at the computer when it's pretty darn tolerable out. Thanks for taking the time Bert.
Great firewood for my boiler!!! I have a big ass allwood splitter with a 20 horse honda, 30gpm pump, 6” x 30” cylinder to make some big boiler wood out of that nasty stuff.
Hey Chris, just wanted to say how much I admire your work ethic. Until I was injured I had the same ethic. You remind me so much of me and my dad. Your videos are my favorite. Take care and be safe.
Good morning Chris!!😀😀 The single wedge really slices nice since you sharpened it!!👍👍 Hope you are ready for the snow. Take care my friend!!😀😀💚 Logger Al
See if you can find some used temporary construction fence panels or chain link fence panels to make the walls of your bin out of. If you can find some at a decent price it would be well worth it. Dave
You were going through a lot of wood with that single wedge...I don't know if it was just me but some of those splits sound like someone eating a piece of celery! Nice job Chris.
Hi Chris. I have been watching your videos for over a year now. It has been very interesting to see how your business has changed recently after moving to the farm. Having access to all the additional equipment at the farm really appears to have improved your efficiency. What piece of new equipment do you think has had the most impact on your operations? I bet it is the conveyor.
Morning Chris. I like the single way wedge for those rounds you are splitting. A lot less waste and control of the size of pieces. It’s mesmerizing watches you at normal speed, with a good cup of coffee. Have a great and safe day🪵👍
Remember when a guy split all that ugly large "crotchy" wood with an axe????!!! (back in my younger days, way to much work then even, impossible now) Thank God for powerful fast wood splitting machines!!!!!
Great video, that was some nasty wood. Here in West Virginia I have a lot of elm on my property that I cut and split and it is by far my least favorite wood to split. Locust, cherry are a welcome relief from elm splitting. I saw that piece jump at the first of the video and plan on showing it to my 16 year old son, he helps me split a lot and has recently started wanting to run the splitter so we had a lot of talks about safety and paying attention to each piece you split and what to watch for. Maybe you could do a segment in an upcoming video about the steps you take when splitting and what to watch out for so that the new to wood splitting people can benefit from it. Thanks for Great videos.
those chunks are a lot of what i got out of my yard maple. makes it fun to split. thats a nice table on that splitter... i only have a couple of cradles that help hold the round on. (Troy Built/Craftsman) but with the tractor bucket to help lift, i can use it as a table too, i normally throw them all back into the bucket and then take it to the pile. i might have to try and find some sheet metal and angle iron and fabricate one? it was fun watching you wrestle with the ugly fugly. when you get those, its almost like a geometry or physics puzzle......where do i put the wedge....lol. thanks for sharing this one because i was beginning to think all you guys ever got was pretty wood.....it all burns. looking forward to you building the bin.
Hi Chris, that single wedge and your expertise at reading the grain did a great job of turning those ugly crotches into sellable wood. I saw that you throw some of the big pieces on the ground after initially splitting a huge round. Have you considered buying/building a small table, the same height as the splitter, to expand your working surface? Would help reducing the amount of bending over, plus reduce the congestion when splitting those big boys.
Do you separate the different kinds of wood when you stack it or are you just combining it all? Only asking because I binge watch all your videos and a lot of your customers request certain type of wood
I ran the 4-way wedge on my Wolfe ridge splitter and it made minimal waste when splitting hickory. But for nasty knotted stuff, I'll go to the single wedge. Nice part is, takes seconds to go from 4-way to single wedge.
@@thefirewooddoctor so basically, if the wood to split becomes the factor of producing. If the 4 way produces more, that's why the single producing less. Basic production, less means more
So why do you wait 8 months for a great splitter. Cause it is worth it. To produce more, might mean your are cutting corners. It's only your name It's your life
@dwaynedee529 many Eastonmade models are 12mo or more. Once their latest factory expansion is done, those times should come down. I had to wait 5mo for my Wolfe Ridge.
you weren't kidding when you said nasty. btw. if you ever get the urge to give that splitter away just send it to nova scotia canada ..just kidding don't block me lol....thumbs up !!
Chris I keep hearing that tree service wood and yard wood is often crotchy and difficult. Why is that the case as opposed to non tree service or yard wood?
Very straight , somewhat uniform diameter logs are harvested from managed Forrest's. They bring them on great big trucks. After being limbed. Tree service wood is taken from yards, wind rows and parks, Where they get little to no attention for 20 years or forty years or longer. 16 different species grow 8 different ways.
Good morning Chris and friends nice round of splitting are you ready for the next round of snow here in western Wi their predicting 18 inches yeha I’d rather see sunshine ☀️. Keep on cutting
Hey I’m not sure if this video was in response to the questions I had on that log splitter but I gotta say that was an excellent demonstration an answer pretty much all of my questions.
I know the pile thing can work. But there certain things I’m just not a fan of. Lol. It’s like electric snowblowers vs 10 wheeler snowplow. One is not cool and one is. But they both work no arguing that! Lol. Can’t wait for the “yup” response lol
Ya got me again, ol' son. The camera angle, it looked like you were scratching or patting your ash right in the way as it was being cracked on that tall, high speed wedge! Mashed off fingers will really slow production!! That's exciting news about your Big Bin! They have one in London that's world famous!! Lots of tourists. Never bin (haha) there because I have my own firewood pile! Be prepared for thousands of firewood lovin' tourists!! And maybe a half dozen cat lovers!! Give them a paid tour, butt don't show them your cracked ash, you'll run them off for sure!! Keep the old firewood chucker motto in mind: "Charlie, Yankee, Alpha"! That's NATO for chuckers all over the world. It means Cover Your Ash! Especially if it's huge, or cracked, or rotten and stinky! I try to do a good turn EVERY day, so today, you're IT!! Lucky you, huh?! GNI
@@InTheWoodyard Hey! Not my fault! My Mom had a vocabulary of 20 or 30 thousand words! It was just like osmosis!! I've got like at least 2 or 3 thousnd words!! Eat your heart out!! She didn't like Superman or Peanuts comics, but I did!! I've always believed that a picture is worth several words!! And you're sorta the lucky beneficiary!! Happy chuckin'!
Nice job Chris. Really hard to "read the grain" when it is that twisted up. Thought at times the Ultra was going to pass a kidney stone. Bad weather setting in here today, headed for you I think. GNI
Love it when somebody quotes from "The Great American Novel"!! "It was the best of wood. It was the worst of wood." - "A Tale of Two Villages". Can't remem the author's last name, but his first name was Kenny. He supposedly lives in N. Wisconsin, of all places!! I heard he agonized over writing the book, took off work for almost 2 DAYS to write it!! He's most likely just a big layabout!! But he does have a way with words!! Esp the German word for workin', gefahrt. I think that's one of Chris' favorite words too! Seems he's always fahrtin' in his vids!! He's always sayin' how he likes to be outside. May be a good reason. Like, he's not allowed to fahrt or gefahrten inside!!
Some Aussie Turpentine would be good to see. (I was cutting some and it broke the tips off a new CTC blade on my skilsaw! I was cutting it to half length so I could split it (by an axe/splitter) as the grain is plaited like a McDonalds girls hair.
Since you mentioned the Easton Made Axis. In all the many dozens of Axis splitter vids that I've watched, I've never seen a three way, four way or five way splitting head on an Axis ram. Makes me wonder if any of your viewers have seen anything other than a single blade ?
I don't like big, flat, shingle looking pieces. They seem to smother the fire in my wood stove . I try to stand them up sideways but I would prefer they were cut in half. Since I split most of my own wood, I don't get many. I have a friend that helps sometimes and I call him the shingle maker. I love ash, most of ours in Ohio is so far gone, it is no longer worth cutting into firewood. Last year I burned a lot of ash and may get a little this year. Mostly going to have hickory. 29 trees went down in a spring icestorm, uprooted.
Morning Chris , probably been asked before , how long does a full tank last cheers , keep up the good work, I split about two face cords yesterday using my axe hence today I’m having a rest day of sorts , I stacked it today on pallets.
that is pretty impressive, some of them are tough splitting and it handles them easily. i cut a lot of bigger wood but it would be easy to make a table the height of the splitter and set the big rounds on with my skid steer. i might have to take tony up on his offer to show me his splitter and if i asked real nice maybe i could see yours also and spend some time doing the best job i ever had.
You gotta figure cost, Are you willing to pay another $650.00 - $750.00 to adjust the deck height on a splitter ? I can't imagine Me paying that when I can make it taller with a piece of board
I'd bet if you would contact Adam at Easton made He would offer to do it for you. Heck Maybe an umbrella to work under in the hot summer sun would be nice too, While you are at it. I
