Here in Finland we have couple things that makes the job easier, 1. Split when its fresh, like right on the spot when you fell it. 2. Fell the tree and leave it be for couple weeks before starting to buck and split, this works especially spring time, when the tree starts to lift water from the ground and making leafs, idea is that the leafs suck the water from the stem and makes it dryer and easier to split. 🙏
Its just Buckin Straight up Street Brawling with Fire-wood Lovers :-) In that Boat Billy! ThankYou, Your vibes have kept us warm ALL throughout the facade. Peace Brother, ThankYou, Salud from South Africa.
I've gotta say as an Australian, the stuff we have the hardest time with splitting is either our redgum or stringybark. But sometimes you get lucky and they split like a dream. Much love from the land down under.
I've split a lot of paper birch and Buckin is absolutely right when he says that the compressed wood is much more difficult to split. But that's just how birch grows. Good stuff.
I’m so glad to see you split Birch because I use a lot of it and seeing you at you home you made it look so easy splitting your stuff. Glad it was not just my weakness 😆 BTW please at least put on boots 🥾 don’t need bloody toes
Haha man ive got cherry on my property and black walnut trees their hard as nails", and i see bucken saying in his mind Well wait here a second bud, this is really hard wood hah man on man i hate this stuff
Those good ole boys tried to stump you Billy Ray. It was tough wood....just not quite tough enough for the Daniel son mode. When I see your feet leave the ground it is over. Love you brother!
Oh man that birch is high in the BTU scale. Almost acted and looked like paper birch. The Ole wood bullet didn't get stuck and that my friend is very impressive. Thank you Buckin for sharing this part of the journey. Love ya brother. Oh yeah Hi Cheeka. 🌲❤️🌲👊🪓
When you get a chance buckin' take a few swings at some elm or iron wood ! If you are ever able to burn some iron wood on the stove you will love it !! Good stuff
Hi Buckin, thought you might like this poem, Enjoy.Beechwood fires are bright and clear if logs are kept a year. Chestnuts only good they say if for long its laid away. Birch and fir logs burn too fast blaze up bright and do not last. Elm Burns like church-yard mold E,en the flames are cold. Poplar gives a bitter smoke fills your eyes and makes you choke. Apple wood will scent your room with a incense like perfume. Oak and maple if dry and old keep away the winter cold. But ash wood wet and ash wood dry a king will warm his slippers by. Author unknown. 🤗
This is White Birch which I have split with a 8lb maul and a 5lb double bit axe, the bark is an excellent firestarter and the wood burns hot. I'm on the other side of the country (Newfoundland Canada) and we also have yellow birch or witch hazel which is harder than white birch. Highly sought after wood over here cause it burns so much hotter than fir or spruce, Love your videos buckin'. Best wishes from The Rock!
Actually friend depends on which fir yer talkin bout Doug fir puts the hurt on white and yellow birch , but black birch is on par with Doug fir . Although some other firs are even with the birch you speak of . Great to see ya
That stuff looks like that 1 pear tree I got ahold of a couple of months ago with my vintage US forestry axe. It was scary sharp following the Roster's scary sharp video. I admit that I never split a single piece of it when the axe bounced. BUCKIN, You're the man who doesn't give up. Thanks for the video
These videos make feel so good when i look them here in my little town in Austria. I have my morning coffee and watch the newest buckin thank you for your great work 😉👍
BUCKIN !! i have split a whole elm tree from my yard and it was a fighting axe swallowin buger!! We also have those sycamore trees everywhere in my small town in Iowa, big big full mature ones ! heavy wood , curiosity got me and it didnt take long to know ill never swing an axe at another piece of that dirty gangly snagly wood AGAIN !!! THANK YOU !!! You have taught me a lot and made me laugh plenty. Tell that fine young man hello for me.
I LOVE YOUR DAYTON LOGGING SANDALS😊😊👍🏽I HAVE THE SAME ONES THAT I USE WITH MY CHAINSAW ✊✊THAT BIRCH WAS NASTY LOVE HOW LAID BACK THE DOG IS JUST RELAXING ,,THAT WAS A GREAT PICTURE OF BILLY PAULY ,AND JUNIOUR
I think any kind of yard tree is going to be a pain in the tookus. They don't have to stretch out for sunlight- they grow out. Which makes the stump pieces super tough. I notice on a lot of the limbs that grew out as much as up- the heart will be way off to one side. Those ones are always trouble... Get something softer and stringier, like Silver Maple, and you're in for a long, hard day. The sapwood is all twisty and corded like muscles- it does not split, you have to chop through it. Even after pounding a wedge all the way through- it STILL doesn't want to come apart without a fight. Evil stuff, that yard maple... But it's free, and it makes great campfire wood. That, and it's full of knots and crotches.
Heck yeah buckin I’m from Michigan and we have lots of hard splitting wood. My boy and I watch your stuff all the time and have learned a lot from from you and I sure can’t to purchase one of these awesome tools to help out with our firewood.
birch is hard to split. I wait until -30° or better to split birch. just a tap, and it flies apart. But I know you won’t see extreme cold….I suggest a hydraulic splitter, haha. but it is great firewood!
Love the tips buckin. 👌. I was just in the mountains and the fir I was splitting was giving me trouble. I remember what you had said about the bark and once I ripped it they split like butter... Thanks you for all you do Billy... much love to you and yer family..
Now I need an ax that doesn't stick or that the head doesn't loosen up on. I've been getting Into the wood more and it keeps drawing me in more and more. I find peace doing it and it's an awesome workout/stress release. I so badly want a wood bullit and handle made for my ax I got from my grandfather.
@@BuckinBillyRaySmith your videos have helped me get two old sthil 038 and a 048 saws running and cutting faster then they ever have. Now to file my 390xp and see how they compare 😄. Much love friend. Can't wait to see you in oregon some day. I'll definitely make the trip anywhere to meet you in person.
Greetings Brother Buckin'!....I was given a new Jenks and Cattle Hatchet when I was 10 years old, chopping kindling was how I earned my 1 Shilling and 6 Pence pocket Money every week. The Birch we have in England is referred to as Silver Birch (Betula Pendula), up here in Pritchard BC we have what is referred to as Paper Bark Birch Betula Papyrifera, it often has multi trunks (up to 7), it is not a long lived tree. I find it is harder to split than the Silver Birch as found in the UK, which is typically more straight grained. The bark on the Birch here is often very thick and as you pointed out renders it almost impossible to split. When I buck I zip the saw down the side of a trunk, or chop through it with an axe, in warm weather the bark then curls back real quick and allows the wood to season. leave it on and the sap and rain will rot it in months. In Scandinavia the hardest of all Birches is the Yellow Birch, top stuff for making axe handles. Up here on the mountain we also have Black Birch, which is smaller and has beautiful cherry like bark.
My man Billy splitting wood with his signature safety footwear. Haha got to love this channel. Ain't no wood saying no to this man, well done my friend. Another great video to watch.
Come to eastern North Carolina and try some sweet gum or some black (tupelo) gum , you will give up the axe and get a hydraulic splitter. Even then the hydraulic splitter sometimes just kinda mashes it in to and you have what looks like a wad of spaghetti.
Birch Oak and maple , axe is hard work where I’m from everything has knots in it .U guys got all the tall straight trees in Vancouver. Land of the axe 🪓 Man U guys are so cool 😎 love to see how u guys do things thanks for another great video bill💪🏻👍🏻✌🏻
English Elm is different to Elm on this side of the pond, I split Elm in England exclusively for a year and every piece I cut was a nightmare to split, I used a 7lb maul and a couple of wedges, sometime having to make a starter cut with a saw. It burned good though, amazingly clean blue flame.
As a young teen, I watched some guys in their 20's attempting to split some sort of gum with an axe without success. My uncle, the older generation, walked over and showed them how to flick the axe and when you had to, slab off around the sides. That was over 45 years ago, I learned a lot that day. The same thing you were showing those guys. Teach on brother.
Tough stuff! The length of that wood isn't helping either. We have some hard oak in Florida. Just like life, some times you just have to pick away at the edges little at a time.
yellow birch is the hard one to split!!!! i love it buckin there is a flick technique people use with an axe, it breaks the wood apart, beech, hard maple, those are hard to split!!!!!
Its wierd how different birch can be. Here in Norway we pretty much only burn Birch, and it splits so easy. Be it frozen, or dry, it just pops open. Compared to our second choice of firewood, Norwegian Spruce, which has like 1 million knots, is twisted like a mother, and is so soft that you can sink the biggest maul all the way in. Also Spruce burns up super fast, but i still like it. The challenge of splitting it, the satisfaction when you overcome the most stubborn pieces is worth it. Plus its great for kindeling because of the sap, and also nice during late winter, when you dont need the most heat.
I’m guessing that birch was from Wawa/White River area. Short growing season there and it tightens things up. That is white birch but I haven’t had trouble like that with rounds. I am about 6 hours south of that location and usually split mine in the winter.
I'm from Ohio and one of hardest splitting woods is Elm. But a wood that, for me, is impossible to split is Cottonwood. It simply does not split. When uou try to split it it simply absorbes the ax or maul. It's like splitting a sponge.
If they were a little shorter it would help. I grew up with a wood burner. Any wood was wood good enough to burn for us. We had a splitter lent to us one summer. We were spoiled then. Today I have a splitter and still heat 100% wood. I still split half with a ace just because. Good work. I have 6 20 inch dead elm logs. They are wicked.
Yeah I feel your pain. Here in Tennessee I'm having to split sweet-gum, maple, birch, and bradford pear. I would LOVE some softwoods to split but we just don't have many around. Sweet-gum is the WORST.
I just broke my splitting sandals and now I see this! Great to see you getting into the hardwoods. I wish I had more birch to play with. I've heard sycamore is terrible! Worst wood I've split is black tupelo. The interlocking grain timber is brutal. I've heard elm is bad too maybe that's similar to sycamore.
The elm i have split is just nasty. its so dang stringy even once you split it you still have to fight it to get it to separate. lol When its green don't waste your time on it by hand.
I do over 150 cord a year of hard wood cut & split, I've seen my fair share, there allot different kinds that for sure and they all have there differences. Allot hard wood here in New Brunswick Canada.
Buckin, That is Yellow Birch. I would not have known that if I had not seen the heartwood. It's not golden or black Birch. But it is a torcy wood to split rather gren or seasoned. But it is a lot harder to split when seasoned than it is green.👍
Love the channel mate, I’d be very interested to see how your axes go with Australia hardwood. I don’t know anyone who uses one because the wood is so hard no matter how sharp it is.
Gotta break out the old trusty Gorilla Buckin! That’s still my all time favorite axe of yours. It has honestly become legendary in my eyes. But that Wood Bullet is a thing of beauty as well. Shout out from Washington State!
G'day Buckin, not only are there differences between the structure of the same species depending on where they grow , there is also the genetic difference 👍.
I shared this trick with him when I was there , definitely helped . You will see me in the video motion with the axe splitting the bark but didn’t really follow through ..thank you
I split mostly Madrone and Oak, I always wondered how Madrone compared to other wood as I've had pieces that blew apart easy and pieces that i had to hit a million times and just turned to kindling. I'm also using a Fiskars until my axemanship improves and i can use a nice axe without smacking the handle. Since watching you I have improved quite a bit so far though.
Birch is a pain for sure but you've got to try black locust. Dead standing is the best firewood, otherwise it dries extremely slow, but it splits hard either way.
Thank you Billy Ray you inspire me to to pick up an ax again. I’ve split a lot of wood as a kid but moved on to log splitters as I got older. What type of ax is that? I need one!!
I think that might possibly be the paper birch. Simply because it has three features 1. the bark plead like paper 2. wood coloration like ah whitish yellow 3. The way the tightness in the grain was imo resemblance one to be completely honest with you Bucking
I love the way you split wood with those safety shoes on!
Here in Finland we have couple things that makes the job easier, 1. Split when its fresh, like right on the spot when you fell it. 2. Fell the tree and leave it be for couple weeks before starting to buck and split, this works especially spring time, when the tree starts to lift water from the ground and making leafs, idea is that the leafs suck the water from the stem and makes it dryer and easier to split. 🙏
Its just Buckin Straight up Street Brawling with Fire-wood Lovers :-)
In that Boat Billy! ThankYou, Your vibes have kept us warm ALL throughout the facade.
Peace Brother, ThankYou, Salud from South Africa.
I've gotta say as an Australian, the stuff we have the hardest time with splitting is either our redgum or stringybark. But sometimes you get lucky and they split like a dream. Much love from the land down under.
Or Yellow Box - unsplitable.
I've split a lot of paper birch and Buckin is absolutely right when he says that the compressed wood is much more difficult to split. But that's just how birch grows. Good stuff.
Ya it pretty Kool to have a go at different stuff
I’m so glad to see you split Birch because I use a lot of it and seeing you at you home you made it look so easy splitting your stuff. Glad it was not just my weakness 😆
BTW please at least put on boots 🥾 don’t need bloody toes
The bark doesn’t split with the wood. It holds it together until it tears.
Haha man ive got cherry on my property and black walnut trees their hard as nails", and i see bucken saying in his mind Well wait here a second bud, this is really hard wood hah man on man i hate this stuff
Yeah! The silver lining is that the dense parts burn slower, good for filling the stove right before bed
Those good ole boys tried to stump you Billy Ray. It was tough wood....just not quite tough enough for the Daniel son mode. When I see your feet leave the ground it is over. Love you brother!
My new friend said he had those over there waiting for the splitter so I said perfect bring em on. Love ya
Good tips all.👍🏻
I have some twisty old Elm waiting for you Buckin here at my place in Ontario.
I see Buckin uses the same footwear safety gear as I do! Love this stuff. Your a good man💯👍🏼
Thanks again buddy 🙏
Dang Superman had some guns on him lol ! Good stuff !
Oh man that birch is high in the BTU scale. Almost acted and looked like paper birch. The Ole wood bullet didn't get stuck and that my friend is very impressive. Thank you Buckin for sharing this part of the journey. Love ya brother. Oh yeah Hi Cheeka. 🌲❤️🌲👊🪓
i got 1/2 cord free this year
When you get a chance buckin' take a few swings at some elm or iron wood ! If you are ever able to burn some iron wood on the stove you will love it !! Good stuff
Awesome to hear you’re coming to my town! Can’t wait to meet ya Buckin.
Awesome stuff buckin! Will have to get ya over here to south west Australia one day and get ya onto some local jarrah hard wood 😎🤙🏾🪵
Hi Buckin, thought you might like this poem, Enjoy.Beechwood fires are bright and clear if logs are kept a year. Chestnuts only good they say if for long its laid away. Birch and fir logs burn too fast blaze up bright and do not last. Elm Burns like church-yard mold E,en the flames are cold. Poplar gives a bitter smoke fills your eyes and makes you choke. Apple wood will scent your room with a incense like perfume. Oak and maple if dry and old keep away the winter cold. But ash wood wet and ash wood dry a king will warm his slippers by. Author unknown. 🤗
Thanks for sharing that!
This is White Birch which I have split with a 8lb maul and a 5lb double bit axe, the bark is an excellent firestarter and the wood burns hot. I'm on the other side of the country (Newfoundland Canada) and we also have yellow birch or witch hazel which is harder than white birch. Highly sought after wood over here cause it burns so much hotter than fir or spruce, Love your videos buckin'. Best wishes from The Rock!
Actually friend depends on which fir yer talkin bout Doug fir puts the hurt on white and yellow birch , but black birch is on par with Doug fir . Although some other firs are even with the birch you speak of . Great to see ya
That stuff looks like that 1 pear tree I got ahold of a couple of months ago with my vintage US forestry axe. It was scary sharp following the Roster's scary sharp video. I admit that I never split a single piece of it when the axe bounced. BUCKIN, You're the man who doesn't give up. Thanks for the video
Lotta work - looks like you are really laboring splitting that timber ! The species name is bustyourassis .Those flesh-colored loggin boots are a-ok 😀
These videos make feel so good when i look them here in my little town in Austria. I have my morning coffee and watch the newest buckin thank you for your great work 😉👍
That’s the spirit jonny
LOVE VIDOS PLESE WERE BOOTS WHEN AXING AND SAWING GOD BLESS YOU
BUCKIN !! i have split a whole elm tree from my yard and it was a fighting axe swallowin buger!! We also have those sycamore trees everywhere in my small town in Iowa, big big full mature ones ! heavy wood , curiosity got me and it didnt take long to know ill never swing an axe at another piece of that dirty gangly snagly wood AGAIN !!! THANK YOU !!! You have taught me a lot and made me laugh plenty. Tell that fine young man hello for me.
Yer a good man. Will do
Buckin top show 👍
Johno
I LOVE YOUR DAYTON LOGGING SANDALS😊😊👍🏽I HAVE THE SAME ONES THAT I USE WITH MY CHAINSAW ✊✊THAT BIRCH WAS NASTY LOVE HOW LAID BACK THE DOG IS JUST RELAXING ,,THAT WAS A GREAT PICTURE OF BILLY PAULY ,AND JUNIOUR
Green birch can be frustrating, try swap elm from eastern Ontario, HAHA .keep on keeping on ,love your videos. Cheers.
Scientifically, it’s known as “son of a Birch!”
Bark is thick and holding the wood to open i like what Ray did Cutting the bark on the side to help to open
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I agree, that birch is gnarly brother ✊in sandals though 🤔
I rip the oak bark on my felled logs and it comes off in big pieces, lay them on top of my stacks to dry and then use it like kindling. No waste!!
Hi we call it yellow bird here in Gatineau Quebec Canada 🇨🇦 freedom have fun 😊
I think any kind of yard tree is going to be a pain in the tookus. They don't have to stretch out for sunlight- they grow out. Which makes the stump pieces super tough. I notice on a lot of the limbs that grew out as much as up- the heart will be way off to one side. Those ones are always trouble... Get something softer and stringier, like Silver Maple, and you're in for a long, hard day. The sapwood is all twisty and corded like muscles- it does not split, you have to chop through it. Even after pounding a wedge all the way through- it STILL doesn't want to come apart without a fight. Evil stuff, that yard maple... But it's free, and it makes great campfire wood.
That, and it's full of knots and crotches.
His feet in those flip flops are blinding!
Great video buddy I wish I could drive if I could I’d probably see you at Bunyan
Hitchike🚗🛺😆
That's like Swedish birch, we axe split it fresh and frozen, then its like glass.
Or with hydraulic.
Good day to you Mr Billy Ray.
Giving you a shout out from the mountains of western Maryland.
Heck yeah buckin I’m from Michigan and we have lots of hard splitting wood. My boy and I watch your stuff all the time and have learned a lot from from you and I sure can’t to purchase one of these awesome tools to help out with our firewood.
I hope to bring it to the masses , anything good takes time , thx friend
Nice work in flip flops!
I have trouble splitting hickory and elm. Zeppelin, Yes I have all the albums. You my friend are awesome!
Groovy gary
birch is hard to split. I wait until -30° or better to split birch. just a tap, and it flies apart. But I know you won’t see extreme cold….I suggest a hydraulic splitter, haha. but it is great firewood!
It would be cold in flip flops.
@@grattonland lol!
Sandals! Absolute wild man! Looks like some tough wood.
Yip
Love the tips buckin. 👌. I was just in the mountains and the fir I was splitting was giving me trouble. I remember what you had said about the bark and once I ripped it they split like butter... Thanks you for all you do Billy... much love to you and yer family..
Glad it help friend
Now I need an ax that doesn't stick or that the head doesn't loosen up on. I've been getting Into the wood more and it keeps drawing me in more and more. I find peace doing it and it's an awesome workout/stress release. I so badly want a wood bullit and handle made for my ax I got from my grandfather.
@@BuckinBillyRaySmith your videos have helped me get two old sthil 038 and a 048 saws running and cutting faster then they ever have. Now to file my 390xp and see how they compare 😄. Much love friend. Can't wait to see you in oregon some day. I'll definitely make the trip anywhere to meet you in person.
Greetings Brother Buckin'!....I was given a new Jenks and Cattle Hatchet when I was 10 years old, chopping kindling was how I earned my 1 Shilling and 6 Pence pocket Money every week. The Birch we have in England is referred to as Silver Birch (Betula Pendula), up here in Pritchard BC we have what is referred to as Paper Bark Birch Betula Papyrifera, it often has multi trunks (up to 7), it is not a long lived tree. I find it is harder to split than the Silver Birch as found in the UK, which is typically more straight grained. The bark on the Birch here is often very thick and as you pointed out renders it almost impossible to split. When I buck I zip the saw down the side of a trunk, or chop through it with an axe, in warm weather the bark then curls back real quick and allows the wood to season. leave it on and the sap and rain will rot it in months. In Scandinavia the hardest of all Birches is the Yellow Birch, top stuff for making axe handles. Up here on the mountain we also have Black Birch, which is smaller and has beautiful cherry like bark.
Good stuff
Should come to New England try to split some of our hard woods red and white oak, elm, hickory ect.... think you would have your hands full
My man Billy splitting wood with his signature safety footwear. Haha got to love this channel. Ain't no wood saying no to this man, well done my friend. Another great video to watch.
Looks like white birch and another name paper birch
it is white birch , just heard from the man who harvested it , thx pal
Awesome and your technique is exactly like mine score that bark then split it up.
Come to eastern North Carolina and try some sweet gum or some black (tupelo) gum , you will give up the axe and get a hydraulic splitter. Even then the hydraulic splitter sometimes just kinda mashes it in to and you have what looks like a wad of spaghetti.
Ok
Birch Oak and maple , axe is hard work where I’m from everything has knots in it .U guys got all the tall straight trees in Vancouver.
Land of the axe 🪓 Man U guys are so cool 😎 love to see how u guys do things thanks for another great video bill💪🏻👍🏻✌🏻
English Elm is different to Elm on this side of the pond, I split Elm in England exclusively for a year and every piece I cut was a nightmare to split, I used a 7lb maul and a couple of wedges, sometime having to make a starter cut with a saw. It burned good though, amazingly clean blue flame.
Love ya
@@BuckinBillyRaySmith Love ya back Brother!
Looking forward to you coming to the southeast U.S. and hearing your thoughts on the variations of wood here vs back in BC
As a young teen, I watched some guys in their 20's attempting to split some sort of gum with an axe without success. My uncle, the older generation, walked over and showed them how to flick the axe and when you had to, slab off around the sides. That was over 45 years ago, I learned a lot that day. The same thing you were showing those guys. Teach on brother.
It's what all the old wood men do
Tough stuff! The length of that wood isn't helping either. We have some hard oak in Florida. Just like life, some times you just have to pick away at the edges little at a time.
I saw your wood bullet firsthand and that was some tough wood!
What is the safety class of those work-flipflops ? I am looking for some ☝️😉👍
Only Buckin’ could get away with swinging an axe while wearing sandals. 😆
I've done that but not on pavement
that birch looks like the birch we have here in finland.its hard to split.but burns very hot and good.
yellow birch is the hard one to split!!!! i love it buckin there is a flick technique people use with an axe, it breaks the wood apart, beech, hard maple, those are hard to split!!!!!
Awesome video. Always love the splitting videos, great number of tips I use and try.
Good good
Come to Ontario and try some REAL Maple. All twisted and full of knots. Good luck with that axe
To easy,, bin there ,, lookin for somethin harder. Hope yer well
Looks and hand splits like nominal bc interior birch
And also bc Interior douglas fir
Beautiful looking axe Though
I'd love to see you come split some Aussie hardwoods, a lot of the grain is curlier than Howard Stern's perm
Oh I'm comin
Birch bark is GREAT fire tender 🔥. Even when wet, it lights easily.
Its wierd how different birch can be. Here in Norway we pretty much only burn Birch, and it splits so easy. Be it frozen, or dry, it just pops open. Compared to our second choice of firewood, Norwegian Spruce, which has like 1 million knots, is twisted like a mother, and is so soft that you can sink the biggest maul all the way in. Also Spruce burns up super fast, but i still like it. The challenge of splitting it, the satisfaction when you overcome the most stubborn pieces is worth it. Plus its great for kindeling because of the sap, and also nice during late winter, when you dont need the most heat.
I’m guessing that birch was from Wawa/White River area. Short growing season there and it tightens things up. That is white birch but I haven’t had trouble like that with rounds. I am about 6 hours south of that location and usually split mine in the winter.
I'm from Ohio and one of hardest splitting woods is Elm. But a wood that, for me, is impossible to split is Cottonwood. It simply does not split. When uou try to split it it simply absorbes the ax or maul. It's like splitting a sponge.
If they were a little shorter it would help. I grew up with a wood burner. Any wood was wood good enough to burn for us. We had a splitter lent to us one summer. We were spoiled then. Today I have a splitter and still heat 100% wood. I still split half with a ace just because. Good work.
I have 6 20 inch dead elm logs. They are wicked.
Snotty wood.
What a bounce on that top
Good job
Yeah I feel your pain. Here in Tennessee I'm having to split sweet-gum, maple, birch, and bradford pear. I would LOVE some softwoods to split but we just don't have many around. Sweet-gum is the WORST.
I just broke my splitting sandals and now I see this! Great to see you getting into the hardwoods. I wish I had more birch to play with.
I've heard sycamore is terrible! Worst wood I've split is black tupelo. The interlocking grain timber is brutal. I've heard elm is bad too maybe that's similar to sycamore.
I thought of you when I saw that.
Splitting sandals? That's as bad as my buddies welding thong.
The elm i have split is just nasty. its so dang stringy even once you split it you still have to fight it to get it to separate. lol When its green don't waste your time on it by hand.
@@izatt82 Seasoned it still sucks!
@@alweedo8377 Welding thong? Is that made by the same company that does my vehicle driving blindfold?
I do over 150 cord a year of hard wood cut & split, I've seen my fair share, there allot different kinds that for sure and they all have there differences. Allot hard wood here in New Brunswick Canada.
Buckin, That is Yellow Birch. I would not have known that if I had not seen the heartwood. It's not golden or black Birch. But it is a torcy wood to split rather gren or seasoned. But it is a lot harder to split when seasoned than it is green.👍
Birch is one of the hardest woods on the planet the paper birch here in Wisconsin is dence with tight grow rings
Daniel son hahahahaha. I love it
Love the channel mate, I’d be very interested to see how your axes go with Australia hardwood. I don’t know anyone who uses one because the wood is so hard no matter how sharp it is.
Looks like some river birch to me. Spade pointy leaves will be river birch. More rounded leaves will be swamp birch or golden birch
It doesn't have river birch bark though it's more closer to silver birch or paper birch
That should be the third line in "never whittle towards yourself or '(spit)sic. into the wind'"...
Gotta break out the old trusty Gorilla Buckin! That’s still my all time favorite axe of yours. It has honestly become legendary in my eyes. But that Wood Bullet is a thing of beauty as well. Shout out from Washington State!
I didn’t bring ER but definitely thought about er
I cut Ponderosa pine and Oregon White Oak. The pine is much more difficult to split. You would think it would be the other way around.
Axe of kindness!
Hey Buckin, that birch that you were splitting looks like yellow birch or other as swamp birch
G'day Buckin, not only are there differences between the structure of the same species depending on where they grow , there is also the genetic difference 👍.
Yes sir there is
I run my saw down the bark and that helps or split it up in the Cold of winter and it's much easier.🌄☕
I shared this trick with him when I was there , definitely helped . You will see me in the video motion with the axe splitting the bark but didn’t really follow through ..thank you
I split mostly Madrone and Oak, I always wondered how Madrone compared to other wood as I've had pieces that blew apart easy and pieces that i had to hit a million times and just turned to kindling. I'm also using a Fiskars until my axemanship improves and i can use a nice axe without smacking the handle. Since watching you I have improved quite a bit so far though.
Good man great to hear
Just going of the subject Billy just watched the Canadian atheletes come into Alexandra stadium in Birmingham Just 12 miles from my house 🇨🇦🌈🇬🇧❤️👍
That's some wood I can relate to.
Birch is a pain for sure but you've got to try black locust. Dead standing is the best firewood, otherwise it dries extremely slow, but it splits hard either way.
We’ve got river birch here in nc, it pulls huge hinge wood.
Birch is just like here Finland, easy to split right after falling but if you wait after falling its get tough and is hard.
Paper birch perhaps?
I wanted to see that Buckin' special in that Green Ash over at Tinmans's
did you watch the video
@@BuckinBillyRaySmith I saw the sawing must have missed that one. Ill check it out.
Lol in flipflops no socks.
Looks like paper Birch but to hard to figure out with out the leaf and fruit...might be River Birch but I will do some resurch..
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It's not river birch bark it all or the same color of river birch bark
Paper birch. Bark makes great tinder, and the wood burns hotter than a $2 pistol
Splits like a knife going through butter when frozen.
I live in Ohio I know exactly what you talking about with sycamore my favorite to burn are any of the oaks or ash and hickory
Thank you Billy Ray you inspire me to to pick up an ax again. I’ve split a lot of wood as a kid but moved on to log splitters as I got older. What type of ax is that? I need one!!
Tough to get the flick on that hardwood
oh, you need to try some yellow birch, grows like a cork screw half the time.
If I can se the twist you know what yet in for. Kik it a side ha ha
Which kind of axe you suggest to use for split hard elm?
I think that might possibly be the paper birch. Simply because it has three features 1. the bark plead like paper 2. wood coloration like ah whitish yellow 3. The way the tightness in the grain was imo resemblance one to be completely honest with you Bucking
I broke two toes splitting wood in tennis shoes. Wish I was wearing my boots. Flip flops?
Yer suppose to chop the wood ..not yer toes friend
Thanks for posting Billy. What do you think about aging the logs a year? Easier to split or harder to split?