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Knotted wood is much more challenging to split. Even with a hydraulic splitter, chunks of wood with lots of branches can stall a machine pressing with tons of
by bprater 12y ago
Knotted wood is much more challenging to split.
Even with a hydraulic splitter, chunks of wood with lots of branches can stall a machine pressing with tons of force. Great demo, but unrealistic unless you only chop beautiful limbless tall oaks.
- cam_l 12y agoYeah, that wood looked like stiff butter. I used to split ironbark logs to sell for firewood. Your aim had to be pretty accurate, first marking a groove with an axe and then a few good hits with a log splitter. If you hit a knot the bloody thing would bounce back like it was made of rubber.
- dfc 12y agoI think I would rather split birch than oak.
- jimmaswell 12y agoI don't think they've ever stalled mine. I've always liked how it's like a brute force analogy on those things. Just keep pushing until it breaks, with literal tons of force.
- unfamiliar 12y agoBe careful though, if you end up bending the shaft they are useless.
- darkarmani 12y ago> Knotted wood is much more challenging to split. Isn't that true for a traditional axe as well? Splitting is the dark is harder as well as splitting in the rain.