what logs have you been chopping today!

[scbk]

Big pile of oak and elm, around 400-500mm long (for a boiler).

They'd been through the pile beforehand with a cone splitter on an excavator to knock it into more manageable lumps, it had clearly been a couple of big trees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 6 by scbk

[Dan Maynard]

10 hours ago, scbk said:

Big pile of oak and elm, around 400-500mm long (for a boiler).

They'd been through the pile beforehand with a cone splitter on an excavator to knock it into more manageable lumps, it had clearly been a couple of big trees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheesh that's a pile. Was it hours, days or weeks?

[Stere]

Im  guessing about 2.5-  3 days but I normally get it wrong on estimating how long something takes.

 

 

 

 

[scbk]

I'm normally wrong on estimating too! Your eyes play tricks on you.

 

It was 2 days total, what slows it down is dead elm is pretty tough and stringy, and quite a bit of the logs had been cut too long to fit in the splitter so you had to try and get them end on, which is slow and fiddly.

[Dan Maynard]

18 hours ago, scbk said:

I'm normally wrong on estimating too! Your eyes play tricks on you.

 

It was 2 days total, what slows it down is dead elm is pretty tough and stringy, and quite a bit of the logs had been cut too long to fit in the splitter so you had to try and get them end on, which is slow and fiddly.

Fair play, I always try to split elm green as I remember doing rings with hammer and wedges from the big dead ones in the 80s that were rock hard after standing dead for a decade.

[Alan Smith]

Elm has interlocking grain which makes it hard to split. That's the reason it was first choice for wagon wheel hubs and seat bottoms, very resistant to splitting.

[Mick Dempsey]

Interesting, thanks. 

[sime42]

I've talked to this guy a few times at the APF. A true craftsman. Really nice bloke too.

 

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