I’m 76 and enjoy trying new ideas. I now know one more thing that does not work. I enjoyed your video.

Ran a jack hammer alot and never thought of splitting wood with one. Like the inovative thought. Give woodhound Sr big 👍for that

Hey guys fun video. Both of you are ready for the big screen. Come on guys Senior's dad Norman would have you wedging off 2 inch slabs in from the bark first. Every old codger I knew would take it in from the bark a coupe- three inches first. I sure am glad to see the wedges. Not everybody has a splitter or wants one for a few cords per year.

You boys deserve a wood splitter...I'm only 43 and my dad started me super young In the woodpile...that's why I need one...I been wedge splitting for years.

Good idea , you never know till you try . Much respect for your father .

That’s how I used to do the big rounds before I got my wolf ridge . But I would take a 3-4 inch log and make a wood wedge. Once I opened it up with the steel I’d drive the wood one in . Great video as usual. I’m catching up on the ones I missed. Thanks for sharing!

My brother and I tried the same thing with a jack hammer about twice that size with the same results. And we used a very wicked looking chisel that I had fabricated just for splitting wood. We did it for the same reason as the two of you did it. We could NOT believe how well it DID NOT WORK. LOL

Love seeing WoodHound Sr. On the job💪🏻. We get to see wisdom in action, some Vintage Steel as well as a Vintage STIHL! 👍🏻👌🏼Blessings WoodHounds!

A thumbs up for the effort. It's always good to try new ideas for old chores and find out what doesn't work and what might be a big improvement. Good video.

I used to notch the big ones with the chainsaw, in the same way, and use a heavy triangle shaped maul, called a Monster Maul, weighs 20 or more pounds, and bust them up in one swing.

I loved this video! Always keep thinking. It might have worked if you had a bigger jack hammer but they are also really heavy. Trust me on that. I have one. I just recently had some really big hickory rounds that I couldn't pick up. I just went right for the saw. I'm not a purist. I just get the wood split and move on. Try this though to make it easier. Cut across the edge from one face to the other (longways). Then put your wedge in and do the wedge and sledge or hit it with the maul. The saw cuts a lot easier in this direction and it makes a lot of cool noodles. Have fun! Thanks for all the cool videos. They make my day!

Learning physics of wood splitting in the Wood Yard! ha ha After years of splitting large rounds with wedges and a maul, I finally bought Harbor Freights 10 ton manual wood splitter. Roll the round up on it, ski handle action, pretty quick POP and you got it in half. If still too big to lift, repeat with one half, then the other....then ready to go to my HF 6 ton electric to finish out. As Sr. Woodhound will attest, as you get older, you like to work smarter, not harder! LOL

Used to use a wedge and a maul back in the 60's in Rhinelander.

I just use my fiskars splitting axe. I can usually split an oak that size in half in about 2-5 swings. The trick is you have to get that axe out as far in front of you as possible for maximum power as well as hitting the wood in more than 1 spot across the line you want to split.

Loving the sound of that vintage Stihl! What a great demonstration of different techniques of splitting the big ones. Thanks for this fun video.

Sort of glad the jackhammer thing didn't work out.. I tried that a few years back & failed haha.. Great seeing you 'playing out' with your dad.. mine passed many years ago now but I still miss the good laugh we had doing the chores.

I would have bet that it would have worked. Oh well, good try - back to the maul and wedges. Oh and good to see Woodhound Senior in action.

I just love that saw. Need to have that saw on here more often 😉👍

Se echa de menos algún vídeo con tu padre ... Recuerdo uno sacando pinos del monte

Takhle taky štípu dřevo doma, železný klíny a kladivo, ještě si beru na pomoc ocelové tyče... Dávám like.

It’s amazing you two haven’t frozen to death.

It’s been years since I split a lot of wood- but back then if I had a straight grain log such as those rounds came from I would 1/2 or quarter the log before bucking it to stove lengths. You might need 1/2 dozen wedges, but start on one end with a wedge, drive the next one further up the log, the next one and the the next one... you end up swinging the sledge less in the long run and can buck with a smaller saw. Oh you need an axe too, to cleave some of the fibers within the split.

😆 this was a great idea! I was surprised that it didn’t get in farther. A way for splitting big rounds like that that has been successful for me and the only other person on KZfaq I seen do it is buckin billy, is to go around the perimeter “shaking” off pieces with a splitting maul or axle until a smaller diameter is left in the middle. From there I can usually make center hits and it will pop apart. There’s just too much mass and tension to try splitting in half right from the start.

Thanks, and keep trying to think up new ideas.

you guys are hilarious we had a few cords of oak fall on the property when i was a kid. My grandpa showed my brother and i where the sledges and mauls were, we whacked at those things all summer long

I had thought the power chisel would work, but. They are designed for short throw impact. Targeting hard, items like concrete or metal. Log splitting seems to need a longer throw and push, opposed to sharp crack. But the longer throw isn't good for the initial entry. It seems that an axe bite to start, followed by successive sledge and wedge would be the right mix. Heavy but narrow axe to start. But a relatively light weight wedges would seem to pass more energy into the split. Maybe titanium. It seems you have electric power so you could rig up a trip hammer splitter. A motor keeps lifting a weight to a specific height, then you trip it when log and blade are in position. Mini pile driver. I'd take a hydraulic splitter and stand in vertically. Replace the hydraulics with a mini pile driver. After each successful crack, the weighted head would be pulled back up to height in the time it would take to reposition the log for the next whack.

Great video when I read the title of the video I couldn’t wait to watch it, I thought it would work better than a did. I bet this video will get a lot of views.

Great video! Gotta try new things and now you know..

WOODPECKERS I have to give ya a "A" for the thought and trying 👍

I realize there's a big difference in solid wood and palm wood, but I just had to remove four palm tree stumps that were cut almost flush to the ground. Almost impossible to dig out because of the many roots and they were on a terrace without much room to work let alone get a stump grinder up there. I took my sawzall around the perimeter roots then took my jackhammer to it like I was slicing a pie. Was dreading removing these until I came up with the idea. Just thought I'd pass that along. I'd try a spike bit on that jackhammer with that solid wood.

That was awesome back40! Always fun seeing woodhound senior out and about! I would have thought that jack hammer would have cracked right through them rounds! Learn something new everyday 👍🏻 you both weren’t letting them rounds defeat you tho 💪🏻 nothing like father and son team. Keep up the great work my friend! Congrats on 4000 subs too!!🎉🎊

Man I share the same passion & your right , never enough is the common thread ... Glad I ran across ya man & wish you & your family the best

Having a little fun did you say? Lol. Those are some big pieces to work on. Godspeed boys.

Still do it the old school way, it's so much more satisfying to split by hand (plus it keeps me in shape while I'm at school). Great content, keep up the good work

Really interesting watching them load the Tractor then the Pick up ! Going to save the rest for later

I have 10 huge rounds of maple ranging from 40''-60'' across. They are cut 16'' in length. You gave me a few ideas. Cut them a few inches deep with my saw and finish with a wedge. That might just work, maybe. :)

I put my log splitter verticle when splitting the big ones

I have used a jackhammer to split rounds but I worked around the circumference slitting with the grain and not across the grain. It's the exact same method you use with a block splitter hammer or the wedge that was used. its much easier to split with the grain than across it

Thanks Dan Fun video Nice try though 👍 Have a great week!!

If you don't want to use an ax or maul, get a spliter that will go vertical!

I was splitting wood and I have a jackhammer I didnt try it but I thought it would split wood. Another thing my uncle gave me the same model stihl like you guys have. Henry Ford said firewood heats you twice, it sure does even if you have a log splitter.

I wondered if the jackhammer was going to work.. too bad. Thanks for trying even though it didn’t work 👍

OK! THAT IS NOT A JACK HAMMER!

Very good fire woods give warm many Times

Shifty McWedge Splitter ! Awesome

Hard to believe now but I got by with a sledge and wedge until about age 65. good exercise....on the big hard wood.

I really thought the sledgehammer was going to get realy stuck. Nope .didnt even faze the big round.your dad is the best.

Also we were talking about moving a large log with a truck. Buckin Billy Ray showed his method in a recent video to do that. This is something I have done before and it works well. I don't do videos so the best I can do is show you things that work for me that someone else does also.

My different idea. My firebox is 10 high and 18 wide so most wood gets cut 18 . However ,splitters have a way of getting people to pick up things that should not be. My challenging wood ( elm ,hedge and hornbeam ) get chainsawed to 10 inch to burn vertically. Much easier to crack. My firewood secret for ancient hands , a set of ice tongs with a top strap.

Thought that jackhammer was going to be the ticket. Very surprising that thing can go through concrete but not really put a dent in that round. I did a little experiment of my own last weekend vid should be up Friday morning. Keep up the great work my friend.

Madmen Agree I’m gonna use that to Cut the Roots of Tree Stumps !!

I’m 71. Been cutting and splitting wood my whole life. Always looking for a better way. Still found that maul, sledge, and wedges are still the best. The really ugly gnarly stuff I throw to the side, and when finished, I’ll rent a big splitter from sunbelt.

Nice

When they're big and gnarly, I use the chainsaw also but I just keep going. I try to go right through the worst knot(s) so it makes better looking firewood and I have fewer un-stackable odds when I split the rest. Oh, and I thought the jackhammer would do better than it did but still not the best; I thought it would penetrate and make a crack but not split it apart very well.

I find the wood grenade style wedge really effective two taps with a lump hammer it usually stays put, then you can drive it with a sledge.

Great father/son time doin' it the old school way.

I know someone with a tree service company and they have a spiral cone drill thingy on there skid steer for big unmanageable stuff

Thanks for doing this. I was going to try and use a Jackhammer to split a stump...but looks like it won't work.

Отличная идея ! Я на морозе Колю вообще лучше Когда у нас мороз -40или45 цельсия , я каждое дерево надпиливаю пилой и наливают воду . утром все дерево колотое .👍

Nice old school video

I used wedges and a maul in the sixties in Idaho.

I had my doubts on the jack hammer, it's not wide enough would of just got buried. I don't have a jh or I may have tried too.

Lol that was worth a shot

The jack hammer was a good idea .... but unfortunately was the wrong tool for the job. The head is narrow and the drive distance is short. Works great on non-compressible materials like concrete, but wood compresses. So you get so far and then a. it's not wide enough to split and b. you end up making a pocket of tough material that won't let you go in deeper. Especially hard to fight against with the short strokes. In theory you could design a jackhammer bit for wood, but in practice there are probably better ways to split it anyway. If I had a million dollars, I'd design a head driven by something like a screw jack ... only upside-down. The head would be expandable. So if you can drive the head through, great, it's split. If not enough force you drive the head in as far as it'll go and then expand the head kind of like a drywall anchor and try to split it that way. But I'm not a millionaire. LOL And even if I was, I suspect there must be a flaw or else someone would have built it already.

If the jackhammer has a blunt attachment, you should try pounding the wedge with it!

yes you are really nice people

You need to be Hercules using this technique.

I found that starting both wedges and switching from one to another to get the split started.

Was really hoping the jackhammer was going to work. Does Sr’s splitter go vertical?

I welded a wedge on a pipe and tried a post driver. Worked fair but in the end I went back to an axe

Me and my brothers&father spent many times sledging and wedging large rounds in the day.good afternoon to you men.later dude.

It’s hard to come up with new firewood video ideas, this is definitely an original one.

Did you ever use a black gunpowder splitter it's like the fuse and run take care God bless

Hey "Woodhound SR." just give a call 😁 I'll bring Splitzilla with the crane and we can take care of those rounds.

laying the chunk on its side and cutting works well, much simpler than using a wedge. two cuts and you have 4 pieces.

O man, I have the same situation. About 80m3 diameter 80-1000mm, 3 feed, I am looking to buy a cone splitter for my 45 micro tractor, but not sure how it will work

Glanced at the title and thought ''goodie, another rassling vidja!!'' Good stuff! Next video, ''How to Fix Sledge Handle''?

That was one tough piece of wood

What i'am fixing to do on the big round logs to split them is? Using a power driver on them, or a JACKJAMMER 👌👌🤣🤣

Damn,that's the way my girlfriend swung a sledge before I showed her how to do it. Mine weighs 18lbs

Its 2020 close to 2021 Its like this nowadays, the big logs can be sold as design tables. So less work more money. Now you can buy dry cut wood with delivery. ;) .

Maybe you could use the chain saw to cut a groove across the top and put the wedges in across the top then use the jack hammer to drive the wedges in.

Try a 90 Lb Ingersoll Rand Jack hammer W//wide breaker, should work Takes plenty of air though

i believe it would work, only if the log is smaller

Neat idea on the jackhammer.. Bummer it didn't work. One of the wood jobs I did a few years ago the owner took his cat backho and split a few rounds with it..

When I’m forced to use wedge I usually cut a slot with saw to get the wedge started

mark the top of your blocks with the chainsaw nose throw your wedge in the mark and raddle the wedge with the jack hammer

I've had several of my aged compatriots suffer heart attacks hunting.. Wonder what the numbers look like on firewood splitting. My day of swinging a maul are over.. Looking at wood splitters today.. saw this.. Take care fellas..

If you were to run that saw cutting from the side of the log, called noodling, it would cut about 5 times faster.

Instead of trying to split it in half, just chip pieces off the sides and work your way around 😉

Get (or make) yourself a pickaroon. Your back will thank you. I made one by welding a grade 8 bolt opposite the blade to a cheap axe head, and sharpened the bolt , welded a pipe for a handle. I also bought a fiskars. Mine works better.

What i'am fixing to do, on the big round logs, to split them, is? Using a Power Driver on them👌👌🤣🤣

I believe the wood as ... Is exhorting too much Shock....

That's some pretty tough wood. What kind of tree?

need skid steer with upside down splitter. even better was backhoe , that was the bomb.

all ya need is a vertical splitter never pick anything up off the ground just roll it to splitter and split nothing ever falls down where you got to pick it up again i sit on stump in front of splitter with cushion on stump for ass if you have help they can roll them to you if no help just roll few close at a time i never pick nothing up till its smaller

Oh, for goodness sake. Have these guys never heard of SCISSORS? :P

I figured the jack hammer bit would have gotten buried in the wood and you wouldn't be able to get it out without a sledge hammer and wedges..I was sort of surprised by that out come. Just stick to the old ways, tried and true methods right? 🙂Big 'ol tough piece of frozen wood!

Must be a trick question.

The cam lobe on the jack hammer would need to be made steeper to give it courser and heavier beats.