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His hands were nowhere near the blade, calm down Karen

@@martinwinther6013 these are all the pieces I couldn’t get to split with an axe.

@@homesteadinglawyer Been splitting logs since I was 13. Theres 1 or 2 eyes in the biggest pieces at most, the veins are somewaht straight and half the cuts basically makes the log go PUFF, send pieces of flying. You sure you used the axe the intended way?

@@martinwinther6013 I split 90% of my wood by hand without issue. It’s the chunks of stringy elm that I don’t bother trying. And some of these are pieces that were already split but need to be just a little smaller to go in the woodstove, so it’s just handier to slap them in the electric splitter next to the door. I’ve also been splitting wood by hand for over 30 years. I’ve learned which pieces are worth my energy and which are not.

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@@mikeh8228 he’s actually running the controls!

@@jasonjgr8580 it works great on pretty much anything but elm and other pieces with big knots. It does fine with oak and most hardwoods

@@frootlooper I split 95% of the wood with an axe. I’m not wasting my time trying to split elm.

@@RandySchouten if I had one I’d use it!

@@RodriguesPaul360 could be! I mostly just need it by the house to handle the random pieces that didn’t get split down enough by hand.

@@mapples007 why? I only have a handful of pieces I can’t hand split.

@@skateindys 💪

@@brandonhoad9033 not enough whiskey in Vegas to get me to do that.

@@Andy-tz4ir jerky is such a great option for deer meat.

@cory8791: We burn hardwood mostly because it's plentiful, not because we need the heat. We mostly burn box elder, which is a soft wood, and elm. We try to save the oak and hickory for those very cold winter days. Our house is small and pretty efficient, so it's a breeze to heat except on the absolute coldest of days.

@mitchelleoutdoor I think it’s totally worth it. All the pieces are uniform size so they dry evenly and you get more even seasoning. I’ll never go back to jerky the old way.

@mikethurston5252 It's the only way to make jerky!

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@@brandonhoad9033 good question. It’s a Stanhoist barge box but I’m not sure about the running gear. The bushings on the front end are worn out so she starts to wobble pretty good over 20 mph. Fortunately it just makes a trip every year or two to an Amish sawmill 7-8 miles from our house.

@homesteadinglawyer the handle and collar for the extension lock looks like one i used to borrow from a neighbor. Only one I've ever seen w the round collar to latch to

@@brandonhoad9033 it’s 35 HP of pure muscle!

@@alksi1 we heat our house with this firewood. This is a pickup load I bought from a buddy. It’s a mix of oak, cherry, and ash. Some of it will have to be hand split down a little more when we use it so that it fits better in the firebox of our wood cook stove.

@@brandonhoad9033 fortunately she’s still at an age where she likes to help dad!

@homesteadinglawyer yeah wait til 12... Mine turned 18 in September, ugghh

@@ianpaterson6111 it was a Sunday afternoon and we weren’t in a hurry.

@@josephgiangrande9892 welcome to my channel and thanks for introducing yourself! What kinds of outdoor things are you in to?

@@brandonhoad9033 elm is a great burning wood and is plentiful around here but it’s so miserable to split, even with a hydraulic splitter. I usually put it aside and beat on it in the middle of January or give to someone with an outdoor boiler. I have so much other wood that I don’t feel like beating my brains out trying to split much elm.

@brandonhoad9033 best to alternate!

@chrisgrosskreutz9846 what am I doing wrong?

@brandonhoad9033 I buy newborn dairy bull calves and raise them out as steers. The market around here has been very high this year for bull calves. I’m sure you don’t feel it’s high enough!

@@homesteadinglawyer $500 for a calf, I'm thrilled. Wish they were 1/2 angus, pretty guaranteed 1k. What I wish is that we farmers could sell based on input costs, like so many businesses do. Dairy, crop, veggie, fruit, whatever. How can you do what you're doing spending that much? Buying much feed? Like the old silage wagon woodshed. Should've left the chain in to run it forward as needed. They make me think you'd have a self unloading firewood trailer( aka beaterless 💩💩 spreader)

The chains are still on the bottom of the wagon, and I gave some thought to using it that way, but it works pretty good as it’s once I took the beaters out.

@@brandonhoad9033 it makes it pretty theft proof! And the fuel injector leaks, but only when it’s running, but it’s cheaper to lose a little fuel than rebuild the fuel injector. I’m very much a baling wire operation in many respects!

@@homesteadinglawyer it's not right unless it leaks a lil. If you have/had electric fence at least you'd fix it w wire. My Gramps used twine once

@@brandonhoad9033 we don’t have many ash trees and they are still standing. We still have lot of dead elms to burn. My favorite wood, strangely, is actually box elder.

@@homesteadinglawyer all trees have hearts but only box elder has an aorta. Not many elm here. Dutch elm wiped most out decades ago

@@brandonhoad9033 it’s a 1964 431 (diesel)! Yep, that’s the battery door. Only one clasp works so it kind of slops around. It’s a good hard working tractor!

@@homesteadinglawyer mines actually a , I'm pretty sure, 541 gas. Don't use it much. Both steering cylinders leak bad and oil seals around shafts that go through the hydraulic reservoir leak. Every so often have to drain couple gals out of tranny and put back in hydraulic. I'm a small dairy farmer.

@brandonhoad9033 what I’ve read is that the gas tractors ended in 30 and the diesel in 31. I believe that’s true for both 430s and 530s, but I’m not certain. Where do you farm? We milked cows in NE Iowa when I was a kid and we farmed with Case. 730, 930, and 1030. So having a Case around brings back fun memories for me.

@@homesteadinglawyer 30 is just the series. The previous were 300, 400,600, etc. The ones after 30's were the 70 series. Pretty sure 31 designates utility model where as my 41(just checked) designates row crop. Had a Case dealer literally 1 mile away, but original owners sold when I was little and new sold White. I am 25-30 miles east of Rochester NY. On the very corner of the Finger lakes region

@@brandonhoad9033 do you watch Just a Few Acres Farm? He’s out near you.

@@johnwebster9090 my preferred way to cut firewood is to get it in 8 foot poles, or why ever can reasonably be carried, and haul them to a central wood yard where I can get them off the ground and cut them all in to rounds, split, and toss in the wood wagon.