The tree was a gnarly old post oak, and the upper limbs were nice and dry, and ready to use. The trunk was over two feet in diameter, and even though I cut the rounds short, we had to split them in place before we could move them. The knotty post oak wood was all that our 35 ton splitter could handle. We were glad that we didn't buy a smaller splitter. We finished up moving all the wood off the ice after dark. The temp came up near freezing on Monday, and we had a wave of big snow flakes come through. Next week we will work on Terra-Firma again. One thing I realized as we cut on the pond is that you don't have to be careful about keeping your saw out of the dirt. "Rocking" your saw on ice doesn't hurt it a bit.
Monday's Snow
There will be a splitter in my future. I'm 52, and that maul is going to overwhelm me one of these years. So far, I can still get it done.
ReplyDeleteI have a chronic elbow problem because of the splitting maul. I wish I had switched to hydraulic sooner.
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