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How to break up tough roots ?


bigyin
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Hi everybody,

I'm not an Arboriculturalist (at least not by profession). I live in Catalonia and earlier this year I had twenty redundant old olive trees grubbed up and stacked round the back. I've cut up most of the trunk material but I'm left with 5 - 10 tons of very tough root. This stuff burns well but because there are so many stones and stuff in amongst them, cutting them with my chainsaw means resharpening every 5 minutes. I have no tractor or similar so power splitters are out. My maul obviously just bounces off. I was wondering if anyone knows of a hand operated splitter that perhaps works on the same principle as the HyCrack for example. I know it's a tall (probably impossible) order.

Thanks,

Bigyin

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why not use a drill to bore a hole then use black-powder/ cordite/ explosive :001_tt1:

I note you put a smiley on the end but that may be the only way around it. I can drill holes but not sure about obtaining or using explosive. I could probably buy some shotgun shells :scared1:

I had wondered if once having drilled strategically placed holes (say working from the outside in) whether I could get something in the hole to apply LOTS of lateral pressure. I already use concrete blocks and a car scissor jack to raise logs for sawing so it would have to be something I could operate manually that supplied a lot of mechanical advantage.

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