+randall barr Thanks Randall. Blushing.

I heartily agree with you Randall. No waffle and lots of info.

You prolly dont give a shit but if you are stoned like me atm then you can watch pretty much all of the new movies on InstaFlixxer. Have been binge watching with my brother during the lockdown =)

@Grayson Kade Yup, been watching on instaflixxer for months myself :)

You don’t get out much do you?

+Lou Eckert Thanks Lou. Just about everyone has had to learn splitting for themselves. ("It's just swinging an ax. How hard can that be?") I think it's wonderful that KZfaq provides an opportunity for so many things to be learned more quickly than by trial and error or by picking up on difficult-to-notice details.

Thanks. Glad to hear it.

@@terryhale9006. Mebnll KB of e ds good way no no I'm you ww

Thank you, Matej!

jeez guy just ask him to marry you lol

And I appreciate your comment. Thanks.

Excellent! I'll hope your Ash splits as easily as what we have here.

+Betty Swerhone Ha Ha Ha. I can see it.

Thanks, Lou. With diabetic neuropathy setting in, I definitely do need to keep my toes warm. Winter came before I could do the videos I was hoping to. Hurry Spring!

Thanks. I'm sure I could learn some valuable things from you.

Thanks much Joe!

I'm flattered. Hope they work for you.

Thanks Bill. Don't know whether to be pleased to have helped you save it or concerned that it was at risk.

Thanks Lewis.

...and thank you for your appreciation.

+Douglas Allan Thanks Doug. Us old guys gotta stick together or we'll fall apart.

Thanks much, Martin!

@@terryhale9006 Thank you for your response. Good to see you're still around with us. I hope you 'll continue to enjoy your fire ànd collecting and preparing your wood! Groeten uit Holland;-))

Glad to hear that!

Thanks, Collin. On the good side, your wood should dry a lot quicker now.

...and thanks for the positive feedback.

+Ben Griswold Great! Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks! To you as well.

You're certainly welcome. Thanks for commenting.

Thanks Kellen!

You've made me happy. Thanks.

Great! Thanks for sharing that nice news.

Yeah, using a mechanical splitter is cheating!

Thanks Dave. Forest-grown cherry tends to be nice and straight and easy to split. Coming from your yard would be a very different matter with a lot of branching. I cringe thinking about it. We're located several miles north of Saratoga Springs.

Thanks! ... and you're welcome. (Sugar maple or red maple? Red makes a pretty good fire wood, but the added density of the sugar maple puts it pretty high on my list.)

Thanks Adam. Each day, I'm giving more consideration to adding a tire.

Terry Hale Never think re-tire - I'm 60now and feel still stronger splitter now thanks to watching your YT films:-)

Thank you, RA.

@@terryhale9006 I am 59 years old and yesterday I started splitting wood thanks to your video. God bless.

@@reconquistaahead1602 AH! Still young! (At least I hope you feel that way.)

@@terryhale9006 I feel always young before splitting wood... and a little less after having tried. hahaha! God bless.🙏🙏🙏

@@reconquistaahead1602 Chuckling.

+SkillCult Thanks!

+Keriama Krueger Thanks Keriama.

+catyear75 I'm so glad. Thanks!

Cool! The maul was just waiting for a precise mission assignment. Glad to hear it.

There's definitely a satisfaction with overcoming something so strong.

They always said work smarter not harder and your video does that, Thanks for the machete lessons as well and keep up the good work, loved the bit where you almost got yourself.

The timing was good for the video, but it was very much an unscripted moment ; )

You're certainly welcome Tom. You've definitely got a challenge ahead of you with all of the contorted grain that open-grown maple has to offer! Best of luck to you!

Wow! I was hoping you would see this but wasn't expecting you to, being the video was from 3 years ago. Thank you. Since I have about maybe 3 hours worth of experience and you have 53 years, I was wondering if you had anything to say about splitting this wood now when it is "green" as opposed to trying to dry it first. Some of it I will definitely need to split now as the pieces are too big for me to move, but if it would be any easier one way or the other it would be good to know. Thanks again

Gloomy day out. Sticking by the computer, dreaming of Spring.

+slofr8dan Thanks Dan. I have progressive lenses myself. Sorry to hear the bifocals were causing issues. Glad you were able to remedy.

Thanks! I have an Engineer's Perspective on Tree Felling (8 parts) that I hope to post in April.

+SuperRoger1953 Thanks Roger. Kind of you.

You're welcome. Hope you have the option to get the species you want.

+James Lester Thanks James. I'll keep my fingers crossed for the rest of them. ; - )

Thanks John. I have to confess, though, that my love is now torn between the Fiskars and the Stihl. The Teflon (?) coating on the Fiskars really helps it slip into the wood. Other times, the weight of the Stihl is more helpful.

Yep. I have one. It's good on ash but not my favorite for really large cottonwood rounds or nasty twisted stuff (for my area that is boxelder). It's fine once the large cottonwood rounds are quartered. Now fiskars has a true weight/shape splitting maul, too. I'm planning to do a shootout between mauls (fiskars, stihl, husqvarna, gransfors bruks, old american) and splitting axes (stihl, fiskars x27, husqvarna) and wedges (gransfors bruks twisted, oxenkopf/stihl aluminum twisted, easton clone Roughneck brand steeped steel wedge from northern tool, and one of those fat 'wood grenades' you see everywhere). I'm gonna wear a heart rate monitor to record time taken per comparable round, record beats per minute and estimate calorie burn with each tool! It is going to be epic! Years in the making. Maybe this winter or spring. Watch for it!

I'd be happy to know your conclusions. The weight definitely helps on the twisted stuff.

Thanks, George.

Thanks Brock. I've got a bunch I want to make, but that nasty four-letter word (work) keeps getting in the way.

Aik Aam Aadmi Thanks Aik. Good luck with your splitting.

Ah, Maine! Where I developed my love of work. I could watch it for hours.

+Jo Radcliffe Great. You don't always have that option, but it's nice to be able to take advantage of it when you can.

Thanks Kent. I've been curious to see how one of those "wood grenades" works, but try to avoid wedge work as much as possible. In spite of protecting my ears very carefully, my genetic predisposition to tinnitus has caught up with me anyway. It leaves me with a strong desire to avoid anything that might produce a ringing noise.