By far the most effective manual firewood splitting method out there. Do yourself a favour and try it or make one and give it to someone who burns firewood.
I just saw a video where Thoren Bradley did this..I said finally, stop picking big chunks of wood up off the ground when you split a big huge one and there's two big huge chunks on the ground after you've knocked them both off after splitting a big huge round! I have been doing the tire thing, bc it was convenient bc in a VC farm, there were tires at hand... but you're right, it's a waste of time because I had to have two different size tires at least cuz I had a gotten into big rounds and had to walk way down in the woods and get a really big huge tire and roll it uphill, drag it it uphill: not fun!! Back then I had a golf cart. Never thought much of the tire thingy until watching these videos. I'm getting done chain etc!! I had already decided after watching Thorn Bradley to get chain and a bungee strap. Much lighter and portable than stinking tires!!. You are so right about that!!!.! I knew about the chain and bungee long time ago but I we got tires laying around so I was just using tires but just got me thinking so I really appreciate the video I hope everybody listen to this and doesn't very safe much safer than smacking At wood with a hatchet and holding it with your other hand when doing kindling. This way you're able to keep your thumb and your fingers attached to your hand ✋!!!
Great video ~ I lived by this method for over ten years at our old place. With a big enough splitting stump, you can arrange multiple chunks inside the chain/bungee also.
This is probably the best demonstration of this method I’ve seen. Wish I’d known about this back in the ‘90s when I was a kid helping my dad split wood. Would have saved us so much time and effort.
I have a 6'2" 292 pound son who picks up the pieces from my 30 ton hydraulic log splitter. His 6 brothers help too. I like your method but I like mine too.
@@scottjohnson319 $5 youth and mentor deer tags. Regular deer tags. Elk when get tags. Grandparents left over beef. Bulk chicken breasts. Bulk pork loins. Rice filler. Bulk everything. I do have an army of workers right now though. Lol.
I'm thinking it saves a lot of time not having to chase the next split on the ground it's still already in place for next swing!!! Brilliant young handsome man!!! Thanks for the Intel sweetheart!!!
My god man you just made me have chill bumps and almost in tears thank you so much my husband and I do about 3 chords a week as a side business for 8 yes now and this is the best thing I ever seen I am trying in morn will update
Wow! That’s lot of wood to split! I hope it works out for you. Stay at it. It does take some practice but you will get good fast with that much wood. Good luck!
Wow that wood splits so easy,that's crazy! I'm in Iowa,the wood around here is no joke,you would not believe how hard some good ol elm tree is to split.you can cut 6" slices of straight grain and it's still hard to split,no bull s*** it's freaking tough but holy crap does burn forever.
We burn maple and birch up hear in Northern Ontario that can be pretty twisted. I have and old nasty twisted elm tree in my back yard. Just thinking about having to split a winter's worth of fire wood out of Elm give 's me a sore back lol. Bet it throws some good heat though.
I used to split knotted birch by hand when I was a teenager. You needed a sledgehammer and a steel wedge. Maybe the odd piece was easy to split like yours.
When someone can do this with some fresh cut hardwood I’ll be very impressed. Meanwhile I’ll keep using a wood splitter because here in the east coast we don’t burn any pine or soft wood do to creosote build up and chimney fire
In Sweden we burn a lot of birch and in mountainous areas those birches are crooked and twisted all possible directions, if there are extra tough ones that have dried up before splitting you're sometimes forced to split them with the chainsaw because the woodsplitter cant handle them. I would love to have fir like that instead!
For the sake of saving weight for backpack camping i was thinking of using 1 or 2 hammock straps with a carabiner. If I'm careful i dont think I'll have an issue with cutting them though I'm sure it will happen inevitably.
Thanks for posting that. I was meaning to do another one like that but never got around to it. Now we live in the tropics so my firewood splitting days are behind me.
I would be willing to try the technique, but I can guarantee that most of the wood around here would never split that easily. When I was younger I split quite a bit of Maple, Birch, beach, cherry, oak, and similar woods.
I have some great advice..... dont step on that rake by your wood pile, you may put a hole in your foot.... I do like your wood splitting idea, great for straight grain dried pine or fir.... have you tried it on dried oak ?? Thanks !
Come on over to my place in Aussie, you can try that on a cranky bit of White Box, you gotta keep your wits to make sure the axe don’t hit you in the face when it bounces off the block, no bull, no
That is a really great idea. But who burns balsa wood. Those logs are like the karate masters chop with there hands. Does that work with oak. Locust or Osage here in the north east ?
I see all the comments about how easily he is splitting the wood cos it's softwood. I wish we had more softwood that split that easily we have mostly hardwood where i'm from in Aus
No termites where I live but carpenter ants can be a problem. Since I made this video, I built a separate wood shed and no longer store the firewood against the house
@@user-ym2kb1cp5e I couldn't describe the exact physics behind it but a larger log (or round) has more shock absorption than a smaller log or round, thus making it harder to split. Some guys like to cut big rounds in half or quarters with a chainsaw first before they split, some guys like using 1 or multiple metal wedges down the center, some guys like chopping slices off the edge first like I do, some guys like using bungie cords or chains. Everyone has different techniques that they prefer or their body types are better suited for. Sorry for rambling lol
Wild hair idea: I wonder if you were to make some sort of foot operated turntable to spin the wood instead of walking all the way around. Would likely add up to some saved time over the cords.
Like a pottery table or something but it would also have to be able to withstand the force of your swing. Obviously it would be under the log you use to split on.
Read all the comments. What gauge of chain? How long is your chain? How long is the bungee? I know multiple variations will work, just looking to know what has worked well for you in your experience.
Sorry. We moved to the tropics so I don’t have one handy to measure. Chain is 4’ long and bungee is about 12”. Bungee needs to have a bit of stretch to it but not too much. Not all of the black rubber bungees are made of the same quality. The chain is twisted like some dog chains. Just make sure it sticks when wrapped around the wood so you can hook it. Good luck!
It's funny to see so many people talk about splitting wood like it's difficult back wrenching work. It takes zero effort. Just lift the axe up and guide it down, it does the rest. You don't have to swing like you're trying to shatter the earth
Doubt that works for most species other than your standing dead, bone dry, brittle, soft wood. When I split firewood, people generally like to have it split completely. I didn't see that happening in your demonstration. But in the end if you're happy, you keep doing you.
It looks impressive and it is in many ways, but there is a downside. Wood needs space in which to split properly, especially when using a wide maul. The 'split' rounds still appear to be connected when the the chain and bungee are removed. To make a proper split the axe/maul needs to go through the round completely down to the splitting block, which it does not do in this demonstration. A more complete swing is required to split stuff properly and I suspect when that is done, the chain and bungee might not hold the round together. I don't mean to be a spoilsport, but those are my observations. Another thing: sooner rather than later you will cut the cord with the maul, or damage the maul bit by hitting the chain. That is a guarantee.
The vast majority of the wood I split pretty much falls apart when I pick it up to bring it into the house. Mind you I don’t burn ponderosa pine or any other ‘stringy’ type wood. I do get the odd twisted butt cut but there aren’t many tough ones in my wood pile. Love my standing dead fir that I cut in the spring and let it further dry all summer.
Thats the bungees purpose. It's gives you that space when needed. The guy is literally proving you wrong. How can you say it's not going through? You can easily grab the pieces and pull them apart. You hardly need the maul to split them completely, if you dropped that round all those pieces would come apart. Don't worry about being a spoilsport, nothing you said concerns me one bit after watching this video and the other observations are obvious. Replace bungee is cheap or you just make it shorter and if you hit the chain you pull out the grinder. About 1 minute later back to work, people hit concrete all the time with an axe but it's easily fixed.
@@jimsavarino , I suspect he meant rake _tines._ Look over the lower left side of the video, there is a rake head with the tines inverted. It's not very visible initially, but Brent kicks it out onto the snow with his foot when he fetches the first log. Looks a little dangerous.
Yep I was waiting for the wake-up wack to his face. But glad it didn't (unless he edited out, lol) Full disclosure, I can attest to it personally--it hurts! 😜
Never used either but I'd bet this method is faster. What do you do when the tire is too big or too small? You can't adjust the tire so do you just pick only certain size wood? The bungee allows for any size unlike a tire or do you have 10 tires you have to keep switching? Sounds like more work to me.
@@user-ym2kb1cp5e when log is too big for tire you just split it 2 or 4 way, it is not going to fall, log pieces are too big. Then just split halves or quarters inside of tire.
@B u must not actually work with any hardwood whatsover? This guy is splitting dead fir trees lol. U can throw them to the ground with your bare hands and split them. It may work well for you... But this is certainly not the best, safest, or most efficient method. You here defending the video trying to get everyone to see things your way like this is the best way to split wood lol. For the wood i and alot of others burn whether its oak maple elm hemlocks birch beach, anything hard. This is a bad idea that is only a make more work project lol. Kinda cute how easy that wood splits but its bc its been cut for almost a year and was dead beforehand. Good on him for using the resource instead of letting it go to waste.
@@tylerarcand1721 Yeah I already pointed out how dry that wood is. I've worked with hard wood before still didn't use a tire. The main thing is you split your wood how you like and I'll do it the way I like. I use neither of these methods. I'm able to pick wood up and hardwood or not when I swing at a round the whole piece doesn't fly off the block so I don't need something to hold it for me. Besides if a piece of it does fly off that's ok since I'm splitting that's what I want to happen. When it does split and falls on the ground I don't mind picking it up. It's good exercise and a lot of people could use the exercise instead of finding easier ways to do stuff. Take the WWII generation for example. They did it the old fashioned way and they lived longer healthier lives than most of this generation will ever see. Some things are nice and others just really aren't necessary. You use your tire but if I really cared I would just take some 2x10s or 12s and frame a triangle shape on top of the block that was attached and make it so one point can open wider to adjust for size by using a bungee or something to keep tension. Material, exact shape and how I would set it up isn't final since I just thought of it but it's the basic idea. You would still have to carry the pieces not as a whole but that's not an issue that bothers me. Oh yeah dry wood, throw it at ground and would break apart laugh out loud. Wait nevermind got no lol.
I feel you would be fiddling with switching tires more or having wood that is different size. I'd rather use the chain which can adjust for any size instead of cutting only certain size trees or dealing with that 12" piece of wood when you only got tires in 14" 15" and 16". Picking up tires and switching them out is more wear on you than a chain with a bungee. Besides you already have the chain in your hands when you move the wood that you just split. It's like the difference of carrying multiple rulers all cut to certain lengths or just carrying a tape measure that will cover them all.
Firewood Keeps you warm four times. Once when you cut it in the rounds, once when you split it, once when you stack it, once when you burn it
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Wow that is the driest wood I've ever seen !!I've chopped alot of wood in my day and it is never that easy lol
I just saw a video where Thoren Bradley did this..I said finally, stop picking big chunks of wood up off the ground when you split a big huge one and there's two big huge chunks on the ground after you've knocked them both off after splitting a big huge round!
I have been doing the tire thing, bc it was convenient bc in a VC farm, there were tires at hand... but you're right, it's a waste of time because I had to have two different size tires at least cuz I had a gotten into big rounds and had to walk way down in the woods and get a really big huge tire and roll it uphill, drag it it uphill: not fun!! Back then I had a golf cart. Never thought much of the tire thingy until watching these videos.
I'm getting done chain etc!!
I had already decided after watching Thorn Bradley to get chain and a bungee strap. Much lighter and portable than stinking tires!!. You are so right about that!!!.!
I knew about the chain and bungee long time ago but I we got tires laying around so I was just using tires but just got me thinking so I really appreciate the video I hope everybody listen to this and doesn't very safe much safer than smacking At wood with a hatchet and holding it with your other hand when doing kindling.
This way you're able to keep your thumb and your fingers attached to your hand ✋!!!
Thank you sir for taking the time to educate us greenhorns..im always looking to work smarter vs harder! Have a blessed day! 🙏
Great video ~ I lived by this method for over ten years at our old place. With a big enough splitting stump, you can arrange multiple chunks inside the chain/bungee also.
This is probably the best demonstration of this method I’ve seen. Wish I’d known about this back in the ‘90s when I was a kid helping my dad split wood. Would have saved us so much time and effort.
Genius idea, good demo, thanks.
I have a 6'2" 292 pound son who picks up the pieces from my 30 ton hydraulic log splitter. His 6 brothers help too. I like your method but I like mine too.
Hate to have your feed bill
@@scottjohnson319 $5 youth and mentor deer tags. Regular deer tags. Elk when get tags. Grandparents left over beef. Bulk chicken breasts. Bulk pork loins. Rice filler. Bulk everything. I do have an army of workers right now though. Lol.
I have a 24 ton log splitter also and can slpit 5 cords a day no problem and im 60 years old
Well I ain't 6'2 290 but I can still split wood like no other I'll be the next paul B. One day
That’s why you have children.
I'm thinking it saves a lot of time not having to chase the next split on the ground it's still already in place for next swing!!! Brilliant young handsome man!!! Thanks for the Intel sweetheart!!!
Sweet tip! Probably wouldn't work super well with hard oak though, and that's all we've got. Wish I had a bunch of softwood.
My god man you just made me have chill bumps and almost in tears thank you so much my husband and I do about 3 chords a week as a side business for 8 yes now and this is the best thing I ever seen I am trying in morn will update
Wow! That’s lot of wood to split!
I hope it works out for you.
Stay at it. It does take some practice but you will get good fast with that much wood.
Good luck!
@@TheStonesheepsteve Just imagining how many people over the yrs could have bennifited from this ,very good to know .
Nothing like earning an extra $30K+/year.
That's really slick. It's nice and quiet, too.
Perfect demo! Keep it simple bro and get back inside with the family where it's warm.
This is great thank you - had back surgery a couple of times but always willing to cut wood. This method should help me out big time ! Thank you.
GOLD 🥇 Cant wait to try that out in my Tribulation day coming up soon❗️ And I’ll be cutting wood for the locals this winter 💪🏼😬 ⚔️
Thanks,never saw this,cant wait to try it out.
Very Not Bad!!
No More picking up split wood off the ground - Huge Time Saver ... and Back Saver!
Wow that wood splits so easy,that's crazy! I'm in Iowa,the wood around here is no joke,you would not believe how hard some good ol elm tree is to split.you can cut 6" slices of straight grain and it's still hard to split,no bull s*** it's freaking tough but holy crap does burn forever.
Madrone is very hard to split also.
No,it's really not.you got to try some iowa elm,y'all got no idea.lol.its crazy .
We burn maple and birch up hear in Northern Ontario that can be pretty twisted. I have and old nasty twisted elm tree in my back yard. Just thinking about having to split a winter's worth of fire wood out of Elm give 's me a sore back lol. Bet it throws some good heat though.
Yeah elm is the best burning wood,if you split it.hell it's even rough with along splitter .
I used to split knotted birch by hand when I was a teenager. You needed a sledgehammer and a steel wedge. Maybe the odd piece was easy to split like yours.
Nice work I would love to see you try that with Aussie Ironbark. 🤪
Great video
When someone can do this with some fresh cut hardwood I’ll be very impressed. Meanwhile I’ll keep using a wood splitter because here in the east coast we don’t burn any pine or soft wood do to creosote build up and chimney fire
In Sweden we burn a lot of birch and in mountainous areas those birches are crooked and twisted all possible directions, if there are extra tough ones that have dried up before splitting you're sometimes forced to split them with the chainsaw because the woodsplitter cant handle them. I would love to have fir like that instead!
why would you be splitting fresh cut hardwood ?
@@RobertELee420 oak splits best green
"I'll keep using my wood splitter 🤪"
-someone from the east coast
Thanks for that man.
Awesome. I've never had wood that splits like that. If I ever do though.
Good work.
It helps to cut it in the spring and let it dry through the summer.
Good luck!
@@TheStonesheepsteve OH I get it.
@@MrThenry1988 and a freezing cold day helps
For the sake of saving weight for backpack camping i was thinking of using 1 or 2 hammock straps with a carabiner. If I'm careful i dont think I'll have an issue with cutting them though I'm sure it will happen inevitably.
Hell of a good idea.
Ty. Ty. Tyvm.
Here is a video making kindling the same method:
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Thanks for posting that. I was meaning to do another one like that but never got around to it. Now we live in the tropics so my firewood splitting days are behind me.
I would be willing to try the technique, but I can guarantee that most of the wood around here would never split that easily. When I was younger I split quite a bit of Maple, Birch, beach, cherry, oak, and similar woods.
holy crap thats effective
Love to see you do that with white oak or elm. You are doing that with a very easy splitting wood.
I kept thinking he is making it seem like splitting is almost effortless, and I'm over here needing to put some muscle into it
Great time saver
I love the back wall of stumps
I have some great advice..... dont step on that rake by your wood pile, you may put a hole in your foot.... I do like your wood splitting idea, great for straight grain dried pine or fir.... have you tried it on dried oak ??
Thanks !
That sound. So satisfying. Much better than a screaming mower engine and whining hydraulic pump. Way faster.
Come on over to my place in Aussie, you can try that on a cranky bit of White Box, you gotta keep your wits to make sure the axe don’t hit you in the face when it bounces off the block, no bull, no
Sounds good and dry, for sure.
Very good to know 👍👌
I love the broken rake lying near wood pile
Nice camo for Wood splitting👍
That is genius!
It's nice you got the driest wood.
That is a really great idea. But who burns balsa wood. Those logs are like the karate masters chop with there hands. Does that work with oak. Locust or Osage here in the north east ?
wow thats impressive!
Would this work for dry live oak ?
Great idea...
Great for pine sure, hardwoods not so much...
Any chain recommendations for this method? Amazon or the like preferred, US based.
What kind of wood are you splitting there, oak is harder to split
Nice how you can then use it to carry the split round as a bundle.
wow... awesome knowhow~!!
We don't burn balsa here. You actually have to swing the maul to chop the wood around here.
Dry pine splits easy, try that with oak or hickory
Nice idea. Sadly I no longer have a wood stove.
did you day dull axe.. how old/dry must be the wood
Impressive!
That is insanely fast!
I see all the comments about how easily he is splitting the wood cos it's softwood. I wish we had more softwood that split that easily we have mostly hardwood where i'm from in Aus
You need to try that method with some Florida live oak then you will beg for your neighbors splitter.
Having split several types of wood from time to time, I assure the viewer that some logs don't split like these balsa-like examples here.
Ingenius.
LOL I knew when he said you'd never have to pick up another piece of wood it would fall on the ground LOL
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I'd like to see this work with Sycamore or even Oak wood with large knots.
How did you get the clean cut 🤔👻
That's some nice dry wood.
I nailed a 15" tire on my splitting block and it essentially works the same way
That is the way to go. Crazy Russian splits wood
And then when you have a 16" piece of wood? Or one that is 10" it's not going to stay there but the bungee allows for this difference.
What's the pointy side up Rake laying there for? 😄😄
Do you get concerned about termites in the summer storing your wood by the house?
No termites where I live but carpenter ants can be a problem.
Since I made this video, I built a separate wood shed and no longer store the firewood against the house
Different wood different strategy?
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Freakin genius!!
Simple and awesome. What kind of wood is that?
Fir.....Standing dead. Cut previous spring and dried all summer.
@@TheStonesheepsteve Almost had a dad joke ;)
Impressive, thanks. How does this do with oak?
Sorry. I have no experience with oak. Doesn’t grow around here.
But I’d certainly chance the $3 investment to see if it works with oak.
I'm sure his technique would work quite well with oak. For larger rounds, you may have to chop angles off the very edge first though.
@@benfrankog6111 What would be the purpose of cutting angles off the edge first?
@@user-ym2kb1cp5e I couldn't describe the exact physics behind it but a larger log (or round) has more shock absorption than a smaller log or round, thus making it harder to split. Some guys like to cut big rounds in half or quarters with a chainsaw first before they split, some guys like using 1 or multiple metal wedges down the center, some guys like chopping slices off the edge first like I do, some guys like using bungie cords or chains. Everyone has different techniques that they prefer or their body types are better suited for. Sorry for rambling lol
Wild hair idea: I wonder if you were to make some sort of foot operated turntable to spin the wood instead of walking all the way around. Would likely add up to some saved time over the cords.
You can’t perfect perfection
Like a pottery table or something but it would also have to be able to withstand the force of your swing. Obviously it would be under the log you use to split on.
@@seabee0733 But if there is ideas to make it better can it really be called perfection?
Read all the comments. What gauge of chain? How long is your chain? How long is the bungee? I know multiple variations will work, just looking to know what has worked well for you in your experience.
Sorry. We moved to the tropics so I don’t have one handy to measure.
Chain is 4’ long and bungee is about 12”. Bungee needs to have a bit of stretch to it but not too much. Not all of the black rubber bungees are made of the same quality.
The chain is twisted like some dog chains. Just make sure it sticks when wrapped around the wood so you can hook it.
Good luck!
@@TheStonesheepsteve Awesome. Thank you!
It's funny to see so many people talk about splitting wood like it's difficult back wrenching work. It takes zero effort. Just lift the axe up and guide it down, it does the rest. You don't have to swing like you're trying to shatter the earth
Haha, and watch that axe BOUNCE OFF THE WOOD. You've never had to split hardwood - oak, or better yet, yellow locust.
Yeah great tip but I have oak and it’s too tough
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Doubt that works for most species other than your standing dead, bone dry, brittle, soft wood. When I split firewood, people generally like to have it split completely. I didn't see that happening in your demonstration. But in the end if you're happy, you keep doing you.
Real men use an axe(maul)! Good stuff. Watch out for the rake.
SWEEET!!!
Yeah just go ahead and get yourself a wood splitter!
Who burns pine?
It looks impressive and it is in many ways, but there is a downside. Wood needs space in which to split properly, especially when using a wide maul. The 'split' rounds still appear to be connected when the the chain and bungee are removed. To make a proper split the axe/maul needs to go through the round completely down to the splitting block, which it does not do in this demonstration. A more complete swing is required to split stuff properly and I suspect when that is done, the chain and bungee might not hold the round together. I don't mean to be a spoilsport, but those are my observations. Another thing: sooner rather than later you will cut the cord with the maul, or damage the maul bit by hitting the chain. That is a guarantee.
The vast majority of the wood I split pretty much falls apart when I pick it up to bring it into the house.
Mind you I don’t burn ponderosa pine or any other ‘stringy’ type wood. I do get the odd twisted butt cut but there aren’t many tough ones in my wood pile. Love my standing dead fir that I cut in the spring and let it further dry all summer.
Thats the bungees purpose. It's gives you that space when needed. The guy is literally proving you wrong. How can you say it's not going through? You can easily grab the pieces and pull them apart. You hardly need the maul to split them completely, if you dropped that round all those pieces would come apart. Don't worry about being a spoilsport, nothing you said concerns me one bit after watching this video and the other observations are obvious. Replace bungee is cheap or you just make it shorter and if you hit the chain you pull out the grinder. About 1 minute later back to work, people hit concrete all the time with an axe but it's easily fixed.
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This is great. Love the passion. I'll show you how I split firewood in my next video! Check out Rocky Mountain Firewood for all things firewoodin'
I just use a regular piece of rope if i hit it, it wont hurt the axe
Come to Australia and try that with river red gum or better yet yellow box. 🤣😂🤣
I tried watching the video, but the rake tines pointing up gave me such Forest Whitaker eye, I only saw about half the footage. 😜
Hey Joe, what does "rake times" mean? Thanks.
@@jimsavarino , I suspect he meant rake _tines._ Look over the lower left side of the video, there is a rake head with the tines inverted. It's not very visible initially, but Brent kicks it out onto the snow with his foot when he fetches the first log. Looks a little dangerous.
Yep I was waiting for the wake-up wack to his face. But glad it didn't (unless he edited out, lol) Full disclosure, I can attest to it personally--it hurts! 😜
@@jimsavarino Rake tines. Autocorrect was turned on.
Hawt Dayum!
Good luck with that on New England Maple. Or Beech. Or Oak. Or pretty much any New England hardwood. Looks pretty tho.
I feel like I'm still going to have to pick up pieces of wood.
I use a Supersplit
Just use old tire - way faster. I just asked Costco guy to leave couple old tires in my trunk.
Never used either but I'd bet this method is faster. What do you do when the tire is too big or too small? You can't adjust the tire so do you just pick only certain size wood? The bungee allows for any size unlike a tire or do you have 10 tires you have to keep switching? Sounds like more work to me.
@@user-ym2kb1cp5e when log is too big for tire you just split it 2 or 4 way, it is not going to fall, log pieces are too big. Then just split halves or quarters inside of tire.
@B u must not actually work with any hardwood whatsover? This guy is splitting dead fir trees lol. U can throw them to the ground with your bare hands and split them. It may work well for you... But this is certainly not the best, safest, or most efficient method. You here defending the video trying to get everyone to see things your way like this is the best way to split wood lol. For the wood i and alot of others burn whether its oak maple elm hemlocks birch beach, anything hard. This is a bad idea that is only a make more work project lol. Kinda cute how easy that wood splits but its bc its been cut for almost a year and was dead beforehand. Good on him for using the resource instead of letting it go to waste.
@@tylerarcand1721 Yeah I already pointed out how dry that wood is. I've worked with hard wood before still didn't use a tire. The main thing is you split your wood how you like and I'll do it the way I like. I use neither of these methods. I'm able to pick wood up and hardwood or not when I swing at a round the whole piece doesn't fly off the block so I don't need something to hold it for me. Besides if a piece of it does fly off that's ok since I'm splitting that's what I want to happen. When it does split and falls on the ground I don't mind picking it up. It's good exercise and a lot of people could use the exercise instead of finding easier ways to do stuff. Take the WWII generation for example. They did it the old fashioned way and they lived longer healthier lives than most of this generation will ever see. Some things are nice and others just really aren't necessary. You use your tire but if I really cared I would just take some 2x10s or 12s and frame a triangle shape on top of the block that was attached and make it so one point can open wider to adjust for size by using a bungee or something to keep tension. Material, exact shape and how I would set it up isn't final since I just thought of it but it's the basic idea. You would still have to carry the pieces not as a whole but that's not an issue that bothers me. Oh yeah dry wood, throw it at ground and would break apart laugh out loud. Wait nevermind got no lol.
All well and good with softwood, for real credibility try maple, oak birch.
A tire is the best thing
That wood doesn’t look fully split which would make it a pain in the ass to separate later when you go to burn
Be a whole lot better with a custom bit that split it 4x with one swing
replace that bungee with a screen door wind catch spring and some metal hooks last for ever
Easier is to put the rounds into the center of an old tire. Keep two or three sizes so for different size rounds. No fiddling with a stupid chain.
I feel you would be fiddling with switching tires more or having wood that is different size. I'd rather use the chain which can adjust for any size instead of cutting only certain size trees or dealing with that 12" piece of wood when you only got tires in 14" 15" and 16". Picking up tires and switching them out is more wear on you than a chain with a bungee. Besides you already have the chain in your hands when you move the wood that you just split. It's like the difference of carrying multiple rulers all cut to certain lengths or just carrying a tape measure that will cover them all.