I'm australian, I grew up splitting eucalyptus, when they are wet, this is absolutely the right way, however, if you drop the trees, cut them into lengths and leave them to dry out for a few years, you can absolutely split them down the middle. Those cracks through the centre, when properly dried (or seasoned, which is what we always said) they open up quite a bit. There is also a huge difference between the white gum and the red gum. White is way easier to split than red and burns way better. Red is super dense, takes a lot of heat to burn and turns to ash rather than coal.
@Grim712 Same was well, I grew up splitting firewood for my grandparents and I don’t think there was a single log that wasn’t collected from a fallen limb of 2+ years. It’s not even something I thought too hard about until you mentioned it, but you’d be hard pressed to find any farmers who don’t get their wood from limbs in scrubland.
Bro Thoren thank you for this video! I’ve been splitting a crap ton of eucalyptus and thought I was crazy that only the sides would split and not the middle. Thanks for confirming my sanity haha
Thank you so much for this! My elderly parents have a log burner, and I never would have thought this was possible if I hadn't seen your video. Now I'm giving them free fuel, letting off steam. And it's so gratifying!
Good job thoren when I saw the eucalyptus video I made a comment about you not knowing to cut around the growth rings. Good video. This trick works for all hardwoods that are to hard to split down the middle woth the exception being pepperwood.
@@sasquatchrosefartsdid you watch the video? Cause he literally explains how the first clip was for testing and entertainment purposes, then goes on to show how you outta work hardwoods from the edges. I couldn’t imagine being as clownish as yourself mr Sasquatch man
When I was much younger I use to do a lot of wood splitting and got pretty good at it after a while . I did for fun and just to help someone out and never asked for money
I'm old. I'm done picking up the same piece of wood multiple times. once on to the splitter, and then it never goes below knee level unless it's going at the bottom of the woodpile.
That's exactly how I split eucalyptus too. We have a ton here in SoCal and if you try to go down the middle, it's not just the fact that you won't crack it, but that the recoil can hurt your shoulder (if right handed, the left, and v.v.) or wrists.
A good way to relieve stress! Thanks for the idea! You can also stick a photo of the director on top of the log, then the first time the log will fly into pieces...
I am very glad you made this video. I have watched numerous shorts of you trying split these huge rounds down the middle. I learned to split the way you did in this video many years ago. I don’t ever attempt to split anything over 16 inches wide down the middle. Obviously your target audience very much enjoys seeing you bludgeon your way through something in a way more difficult manner than is efficient. I was hoping that you do this for entertainment reasons and not because you didn’t know any better. Competent axmen use their energy wisely. But in your case the viewership wins out.
I love how he says he wants to save time. First of all, I'm splitting cause I find it fun and it clears my head to smack stuff. Second, we are splitting with an axe, it's gonna be slow.
I just wanna meet this man to see his axe collection because I’ve seen a few different videos and some of them are like art😂😂 shout out to whoever is making them
I have never split wood with an axe or maul. I did however have to split wood with a wedge and short handled sledge hammer when I was six years old though. I don't know if that is easier but, considering a six year old could do it I suspect it is more accessible because it doesn't require as much strength, just determination and sometimes more than one wedge.
These trees are amazing. They burn so hot because of the oil in the leaves. All thats left is a burnt and charred stump. Look at this same black stump 6 weeks leter and it is covered in bright grren leaves of new growth. 2 years later, the stump will have returned to a healthy, thriving tree, ready for the next bushfire. Amazing and terrifying at the same time.
I’ve just bought some gransfors axes and a maul to go out and cut my firewood by hand. I’m in Australia and apparently our wood is very difficult to get though.
I have little knowledge on lumbering but growing up in Australia thats how we always split the wood. I guess i know the reason why now😂 watching the last video i was wondering why it was so difficult, my dad is a fraction of your size and he still made it look easyish, but he used to do it this way too
Yup... Learnt that in 1984 on the wood lots in Big Sur... Would hand split three cords a day, everyday for a couple of summers... Cept I use the monster maul, 15# acute wedge shape really pops em good... Reminds me I got some split...😂
what a specimen of a man. it's beautiful to witness your expertise at the pinnacle of your health. may God bless you with a good woman to accompany you, and may you have many offspring!
"I know what I'm doing, sometimes entertainment comes first" I hope you didn't include that because people were giving you a hard time. You're killing it.
great video's. have you seen this women Nicole Coenen? she does youtube video's just like yours. would be great to see yall do a video together with discussions on how yall learned and techniques
Thats why you use a wood spliting maul or a hydraulic log splitter. Spliting at the edges first is called slabing off the edges. I am so glad you are young and have all that energy and momentum to waist. Some day the time will come and it will When time,rust,and gravity will firce you to work smart. Have fun for now, and good luck in the future.
I take a regular hatchet and a standard carpenters framing hammer. Cuts like butter and don't wear myself out swing a 10+ lb hammer. I just sit and swing!
What type of axe is that. It looks like a splitting maul but is it custom designed, or can I buy it somewhere. It looks like you can remove the wedge on the handle relatively easy
Why is it that people feel this undying need to just list harder things to do? 😂 like all you are doing is stating hardwood levels. The actual task is what is fun. Being outside. Heating your home. Moving your body. What’s this obsession with needing to just list harder things to do? Do it everyday. For a lifetime. That’s the real flex here.
Eucalyptus is a bitch to split as you demonstrated and doesn’t make good lumber. Not to mention messy as hell and ruins the soil beneath it. A few neighborhoods in SoCal where you can stay busy felling them for a good long career.
Yah. I have problems splitting oak logs. Then I watch videos of girls splitting wood, i have concluded that they aren't splitting oak, but some softer type of wood.
I love and hate that axe. For $ 200 plus dollars I would think the fools at Helko could design a bit that would stay tight on the handle. When I purchase the most expensive axe on the market I expect it to be quality. Not garbage that will not stay together and continually falls apart at the highest price point. Also their customer service is a total joke I've reached out to them multiple times only to be left hung out to dry. F#CK Helko Werk!
That's exactly how I split hardwood when it's large pieces 28" and up. I hate sweet gums though, those suck especially when they're all knotted up. Have you done sweetgum yet on your channel?
I'm australian, I grew up splitting eucalyptus, when they are wet, this is absolutely the right way, however, if you drop the trees, cut them into lengths and leave them to dry out for a few years, you can absolutely split them down the middle.
Those cracks through the centre, when properly dried (or seasoned, which is what we always said) they open up quite a bit.
There is also a huge difference between the white gum and the red gum. White is way easier to split than red and burns way better. Red is super dense, takes a lot of heat to burn and turns to ash rather than coal.
You are truly damn good at what you do
@Grim712 Same was well, I grew up splitting firewood for my grandparents and I don’t think there was a single log that wasn’t collected from a fallen limb of 2+ years. It’s not even something I thought too hard about until you mentioned it, but you’d be hard pressed to find any farmers who don’t get their wood from limbs in scrubland.
Bro Thoren thank you for this video! I’ve been splitting a crap ton of eucalyptus and thought I was crazy that only the sides would split and not the middle. Thanks for confirming my sanity haha
Thank you so much for this!
My elderly parents have a log burner, and I never would have thought this was possible if I hadn't seen your video.
Now I'm giving them free fuel, letting off steam. And it's so gratifying!
Thor you're a friggin beast bro. I think you should show people who don't split wood often how to get a busted ax head out of a chunk of wood.
Good call!
I literally just walked in the door after plitting firewood for the stove. The new maul handle from Beaver Tooth is awesome.
Will check it out!
Aussie hardwood is really hard to split especially when waterlogged. The method you explained is exactly how I do it.
Good job thoren when I saw the eucalyptus video I made a comment about you not knowing to cut around the growth rings. Good video. This trick works for all hardwoods that are to hard to split down the middle woth the exception being pepperwood.
you hitting that sounds like a gun shot
Just a lifetime of mechanics. Not really strength related. (Not that you said it was)
@@ThorenBradley i wonder if anyone is walking in the woods and your there smashing woods like a shotgun
@@ThorenBradleyhit cracks, genius. Read the wood. You're terrible at this. Find edge cracks , and work on those.
@@sasquatchrosefartsthe cracks were in the middle?
@@sasquatchrosefartsdid you watch the video? Cause he literally explains how the first clip was for testing and entertainment purposes, then goes on to show how you outta work hardwoods from the edges. I couldn’t imagine being as clownish as yourself mr Sasquatch man
I love how videos like this are uploaded as tutorials. As if anyone watching this video is ever going to be splitting any log, let alone eucalyptus
When I was much younger I use to do a lot of wood splitting and got pretty good at it after a while . I did for fun and just to help someone out and never asked for money
Thoren: "Oooh, it's still wet"
Michael Scott: "That's what she said"
You inspired me to leave the splitter in the shop this season. Feels good beating up on rounds.
It definitely does feel awesome!
How do you get the rounds? I've never owned property, are they felled trees that have been sliced with a chainsaw?
I'm old. I'm done picking up the same piece of wood multiple times. once on to the splitter, and then it never goes below knee level unless it's going at the bottom of the woodpile.
Thanks for the tutorial. Never know when it may come in handy to know this
Meanwhile Aussie's casually splitting eucalyptus all day.
That's exactly how I split eucalyptus too. We have a ton here in SoCal and if you try to go down the middle, it's not just the fact that you won't crack it, but that the recoil can hurt your shoulder (if right handed, the left, and v.v.) or wrists.
I reckon it'd be weird to be in America and get the whiff and sight of home via gums
A good way to relieve stress! Thanks for the idea! You can also stick a photo of the director on top of the log, then the first time the log will fly into pieces...
Great video as always!!
I didn't doubt that you know what you're doing, and I love the entertainment to!
Dude is jacked!
Bro only found this out now…
You learn something new every day dude ;-)
And I appreciate the entertainment value you bring me... in this and every video 💕
Always wild to see the Helko bounce right off with a big swing 🤯 that’s how you know you’re in for a tangle lol
I hope nobody was actually questioning your knowledge there.
Every day. 😂 it’s because of how I look though, I get it.
If you have a tire or a chain, it makes it alot easier to split the sides off faster and it's safer.
Love the videos. They always make my day and Im a city guy 😂 I don’t even own an axe
Right on!
❤ I love your style thank you so much
I am very glad you made this video. I have watched numerous shorts of you trying split these huge rounds down the middle. I learned to split the way you did in this video many years ago. I don’t ever attempt to split anything over 16 inches wide down the middle. Obviously your target audience very much enjoys seeing you bludgeon your way through something in a way more difficult manner than is efficient. I was hoping that you do this for entertainment reasons and not because you didn’t know any better. Competent axmen use their energy wisely. But in your case the viewership wins out.
I remember you hated that axe you broke cause bolts kept breaking.
Turns out my grandpa been teaching me right the whole time. Thank god for em. Keep swinging briski
I love how he says he wants to save time. First of all, I'm splitting cause I find it fun and it clears my head to smack stuff. Second, we are splitting with an axe, it's gonna be slow.
That swing is mighty healthy
Que grande Raul Garcia, no sabia de esta faceta suya
I just wanna meet this man to see his axe collection because I’ve seen a few different videos and some of them are like art😂😂 shout out to whoever is making them
I have never split wood with an axe or maul. I did however have to split wood with a wedge and short handled sledge hammer when I was six years old though. I don't know if that is easier but, considering a six year old could do it I suspect it is more accessible because it doesn't require as much strength, just determination and sometimes more than one wedge.
Good to see you Legend
I split iron bark a lot and it's tough. What is the name of the maul you are using
These trees are amazing. They burn so hot because of the oil in the leaves. All thats left is a burnt and charred stump. Look at this same black stump 6 weeks leter and it is covered in bright grren leaves of new growth. 2 years later, the stump will have returned to a healthy, thriving tree, ready for the next bushfire.
Amazing and terrifying at the same time.
Great job redeeming your broken axe. Keep up the great work bud.
Pretty sure nobody doubted you buddy. You're the primary reason why my wife wonders why I'm so into splitting wood lately.
I’ve just bought some gransfors axes and a maul to go out and cut my firewood by hand. I’m in Australia and apparently our wood is very difficult to get though.
Hardest in the world. Ironbark and Wandoo
This is the way I split all my big rounds, because it just saves me more time and energy. I also desperately need to sharpen my maul...
Not to get too personal but what do you do for your primary source of income/job?
You’re good! I’ll make a video about that!
@@ThorenBradley thanks brother!
I'd be luck to hit the entire log, let alone a specific point _on_ the log.
Also cutting along the grain will make a difference along with cutting along the edge.
I have little knowledge on lumbering but growing up in Australia thats how we always split the wood. I guess i know the reason why now😂
watching the last video i was wondering why it was so difficult, my dad is a fraction of your size and he still made it look easyish, but he used to do it this way too
I swear I'm not gay. I just love the wood in these videos...
Did you make that axe yourself, or perched it? It’s a beautiful axe
Yup... Learnt that in 1984 on the wood lots in Big Sur... Would hand split three cords a day, everyday for a couple of summers... Cept I use the monster maul, 15# acute wedge shape really pops em good... Reminds me I got some split...😂
Tell me more. Not many people use a monster maul
I cant stop drooling
Red gum is hard. People love it here in Australia, burns clean and long.
Thor,
You still recommend that axe despite it breaking in that vid you shot before?
what a specimen of a man. it's beautiful to witness your expertise at the pinnacle of your health.
may God bless you with a good woman to accompany you, and may you have many offspring!
🪓🧔🏻♂ Buen trabajo.
Would you consider doing a calendar with Lauren Coenen? Either for charity... or just for me... 😅
If he swings on your head, you be tomato 🍅
Jesus christ that sounds hard.
We don't have eucalyptus here in the uk, but it's on par with well seasoned old English oak
If you were to pick 1 splitting axe which one would it be?
Would it split easier hitting it on the edge rather than the middle?
"I know what I'm doing, sometimes entertainment comes first"
I hope you didn't include that because people were giving you a hard time. You're killing it.
Nice one bro
great video's. have you seen this women Nicole Coenen? she does youtube video's just like yours. would be great to see yall do a video together with discussions on how yall learned and techniques
Thats why you use a wood spliting maul or a hydraulic log splitter. Spliting at the edges first is called slabing off the edges. I am so glad you are young and have all that energy and momentum to waist. Some day the time will come and it will
When time,rust,and gravity will firce you to work smart. Have fun for now, and good luck in the future.
I dunno, this gnarly oak bounces mauls off like bb's hitting a tank. Even on the perimeter.
I appreciate your informative videos but I appreciate just how handsome your are thanks for sharing
Hello. Damn, that's a really hard wood to split, but u did it, nice. Did you buy a new axe?
Brother what name brand work pants do you wear ?
Did you change the name to your app?
Man’s suspenders are getting a nice loose break with that fit
Am curious what is the weight and make of that axe?
You should sell bear hugs starting at $5 a minute... 😍🥰🤩 I fell in love with this guy's arms months ago!
I take a regular hatchet and a standard carpenters framing hammer. Cuts like butter and don't wear myself out swing a 10+ lb hammer.
I just sit and swing!
What axe is that?
What axe do you use?
You should show people how to make a makeshift wooden wedge and use it to split
I hope that ax made a full recovery.
Luckily it was just the bolts I broke.....LMAO
Which is why the head should never be attached to the handle this way!
What type of axe is that. It looks like a splitting maul but is it custom designed, or can I buy it somewhere. It looks like you can remove the wedge on the handle relatively easy
What kind of axe is that homie
Every Aussie boy knows this from a young age. Wait till you try some ironbark. That's only bluegum.
Why is it that people feel this undying need to just list harder things to do? 😂 like all you are doing is stating hardwood levels. The actual task is what is fun. Being outside. Heating your home. Moving your body. What’s this obsession with needing to just list harder things to do? Do it everyday. For a lifetime. That’s the real flex here.
It works for me on them really hard woods. The big ones anyway.
Interesing how much you eat calories
what type if eucalypt?
HI Thoren, I thought you hated the Helko 2000. Change of heart?
What are the point of the suspenders?
Eucalyptus is a bitch to split as you demonstrated and doesn’t make good lumber. Not to mention messy as hell and ruins the soil beneath it. A few neighborhoods in SoCal where you can stay busy felling them for a good long career.
Bro never shies away from a sexual innuendo 😂
Anyone know where can i get those suspenders?
Yah. I have problems splitting oak logs. Then I watch videos of girls splitting wood, i have concluded that they aren't splitting oak, but some softer type of wood.
Gym membership vs 20 swings a day on a eucalyptus log… hmmmm
Obligatory "EUCALYPTUS!!!"
Could you do a video on proper technique?
I think I made one awhile back!
Where are you getting eucalyptus from my guy?
guessing eucalyptus is 1 of the hardest to spit eh never knew this up in Canada we dont have this here
We have Elm that is so hard to split not worth trying really eh.
I love and hate that axe. For $ 200 plus dollars I would think the fools at Helko could design a bit that would stay tight on the handle. When I purchase the most expensive axe on the market I expect it to be quality. Not garbage that will not stay together and continually falls apart at the highest price point. Also their customer service is a total joke I've reached out to them multiple times only to be left hung out to dry.
F#CK Helko Werk!
Where I can buy axe like yours one? Look like for grandson, perfect
Is that wood one of the hardest. I dont know owt about wood just asking
It’s very hard. But nowhere near the hardest. What makes it difficult is that the grain has a bunch of funky stoppages throughout
Pretty sure most anybody that burns wood splits it according to the kind of wood they get and burn
I bet that smells like heaven!
That is a beautiful colored wood , and very hard
That's exactly how I split hardwood when it's large pieces 28" and up. I hate sweet gums though, those suck especially when they're all knotted up. Have you done sweetgum yet on your channel?
Brother, sweet gum trees are nightmares to split! Smell good though
Oh wow lesson learned
That's some hard wood. How is it for burning?
Amazing!