Psshh. I hand split everything by hand with an axe ... all year, because I like to smoke meats....twss.
Exactly!!!
When this supply runs out, sometime in the next week, I'll be starting on my 3rd cord of wood. I thought I had enough out there for 2 winters, ghaa!
That seems to be another standing rule; the best burning stuff is the hardest to split.
Uncomfortable feeling when the air runs out and you're headed downhill, to say the least.That stuff always cracked me up.
Until I saw my first rainstorm in San Diego, now that isn't funny. Ok, it kind of was.
San Diego in the first rain....Norfolk with 1 inch of snow ....me laughing and wondering why I drive so well in all instances.
The only situations that make me nervous, are hauling trailers on icey mountain roads, going downhill.
NY announced in '27 that all school busses will be electric.
Que Alice Cooper's "schools out"
Im not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but seems like quite the lofty task.
Agreed. I've found that live oak almost shatters when it splits. The grain will be wavy inside some of the pieces. I've had to use a wedge plus many swings of an 8lbs sledge to split bigger pieces to the point where my wedge looks like a mushroom and some pieces refuse to split until they have seasoned a few years. I took to notching bigger pieces with my chainsaw just to help get the wedge started and that hasn't been 100 percent successful either.
I also like to smoke meats but you won't be splitting live oak with your favorite axe or maul. I also burn salt cedar, that splits easy like pine. But live oak is the premium wood boat material because it is so tough.
Why split green wood? I do things a bit different.
I'm not talking about green wood necessarily. I'm just saying that you aren't going to split a pile of live oak like them other woods you are used to. It's like trying to split a chunk of iron. I used a 25 ton splitter at the neighbor's place and it barely has the juice to get through some of the thicker logs. I get it when you say you can split wood by hand faster than a splitter, but live oak is another story.
Your axe or maul can potentially bounce off the live oak, putting you at risk for injury. That's why I use wedges.
After looking, I see it's a completely different animal than the oak im used to.....barely oak, more evergreen....and short ...which is probably where the knots add up....so you are most likely correct.
I see why you would say that....but I'm not just some numb skull. But I do appreciate the education
Yes, it's basically evergreen. It loses it's leaves in the fall on some trees, in the spring on others. I realized it's called live oak because you can chop the tree level with the ground, and it will grown back from the stump. That's what grows on the land I got. That and salt cedar. So that's what I burn. There are a lot of BTU's in one of those oak logs. I don't need that much wood, we get a month or two of cold weather. I've still injured myself a couple times with wedges bouncing out of the logs.After looking, I see it's a completely different animal than the oak im used to.....barely oak, more evergreen....and short ...which is probably where the knots add up....so you are most likely correct.
I also wouldn't use that for fire wood ...but that's me.
Just so you know, I never take anything too seriously....so don't worry about offending my masculinity....I'm not that type.
