Splitting fatigue.

[djbobbins]

I got the same effect splitting some seasoned euc by hand, compared to alder and ash.

 

I didn't do a great deal of the euc - maybe 2 or 3 cubes over the course of a week or so - but it was (sorry mods) a bugger. I'll swear the kickback in my arms and wrists has meant they've never been the same again. At least, that's the story I'm sticking to anyway...

 

In the end, I sliced the really gnarly bits up with the saw. Stuff that for a game of soliders. If you are doing firewood regularly, even as a sideline, I would say spend 300 quid on a 6t splitter now rather than get to 70 and be knackered with arthritis.

[andyinsheffield]

Hate to do a time and motion study on the you tube guy posted by sandbach sticks.

Time x effort= unsaleable product.

Smaller rings x easier chopping= less fatigue and faster throughput, less fatigue.

 

 

My thoughts exactly. Not to mention the bit at the end when he hits the centre of a big round repeatedly in the same place. Not sure what that's about unless his customers have stoves the size of the Lusitania

 

I've been splitting ash all day so easy to feel smug about how easy the maul splitting lark is till you get some really knotty swines in the last batch which was seriously kntty beech. My personal approach is up the weight of the maul the more knotty they get, ash and sycamore goes a treat with a kiddys 6lb maul, beech up it to 8 lb and for the load of green holly in 28" i copped for last year the 12 lb home made jobby.

[robbo 110]

i gave in just before christmas & bought a petrol driven 7 ton splitter, its not the biggest machine in the world but i can work it all day & through into the evening, wished id bought one years ago.... the pile of knotty stuff that i could do anything with.. has gone!!

[Jesse]

Not one for the big boys, but I still split most of my stuff by hand. My electric hydraulic is slow and best suited to two men for decent productivity.

 

I can split 100's rings without feeling knackered, as long as they split. As soon as I get a hard-splitting piece I have to hit a few times I'm exhausted! Can anyone explain?

 

After 35 years of splitting wood I'm reasonably adept at judging what will split and what won't.

Now youv got your brown wings:lol: just b4 you go to bed try taking 2 ZMA capsules, theyv got 7 mg vitamin B6,300 mg Magnesium,and 20 mg Zinc

youl soon then be hard splitting 200 rings:thumbup:

[zeroluke]

I got the same effect splitting some seasoned euc by hand, compared to alder and ash.

 

I didn't do a great deal of the euc - maybe 2 or 3 cubes over the course of a week or so - but it was (sorry mods) a bugger. I'll swear the kickback in my arms and wrists has meant they've never been the same again. At least, that's the story I'm sticking to anyway...

 

In the end, I sliced the really gnarly bits up with the saw. Stuff that for a game of soliders. If you are doing firewood regularly, even as a sideline, I would say spend 300 quid on a 6t splitter now rather than get to 70 and be knackered with arthritis.

 

where have you ever seen a decent 6t splitter for 300 quid?