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Chief Big Taw
Well, we consider it fun.
A big oak tree fell on the creek at the backside of our place. We've been wanting to cut it for a long time but have been real busy. We have a cattle farm so he stays busy every day and I help when I can between working 2 jobs.
Anyway, he did the chainsaw work and I swung the splitting maul today. Probably about 4 hours total time. I should add he is 67 years old, has diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and one heart stint. But he "bows up and takes it" as he puts it and works like a mule.
I got tickled because when we got finished and went to feed cows he kept saying "DANG boy, you split a PILE of wood today".
Next is splitting the BIG part of the tree up maybe next week. that will entail the use of a sledgehammer and wedges. There is also a hickory that this tree knocked down that will have to go, but we'll cut it last cause it's hard on the saw blades. This is one of several we have to cut.
On wood like oak I can split it faster than our power woodsplitter using a splitting maul, and the biggest pieces will have to be split at least in half with the maul before we can get them on the splitter, so I just keep hammering away like John Henry. That and for some odd reason I really LOVE to do this. The angle isn't good but its about the same amout of wood as where he is sitting all the way down it it's just spread out more on the end.
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A big oak tree fell on the creek at the backside of our place. We've been wanting to cut it for a long time but have been real busy. We have a cattle farm so he stays busy every day and I help when I can between working 2 jobs.
Anyway, he did the chainsaw work and I swung the splitting maul today. Probably about 4 hours total time. I should add he is 67 years old, has diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and one heart stint. But he "bows up and takes it" as he puts it and works like a mule.
I got tickled because when we got finished and went to feed cows he kept saying "DANG boy, you split a PILE of wood today".
Next is splitting the BIG part of the tree up maybe next week. that will entail the use of a sledgehammer and wedges. There is also a hickory that this tree knocked down that will have to go, but we'll cut it last cause it's hard on the saw blades. This is one of several we have to cut.
On wood like oak I can split it faster than our power woodsplitter using a splitting maul, and the biggest pieces will have to be split at least in half with the maul before we can get them on the splitter, so I just keep hammering away like John Henry. That and for some odd reason I really LOVE to do this. The angle isn't good but its about the same amout of wood as where he is sitting all the way down it it's just spread out more on the end.
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and "calc'latin" on exactly how much we could cut off before that big rootball on the end (second picture) fell back in the creek. 
