Now all you need is a solid base to stop the wood from bouncing. Cut your splitting strikes in half. 😊

Thanks gp this actually helped me out i didnt know all that and the tires genius 😂

A very good explanation of what and how to do with firewood. I came to the same conclusion through my own experience and that of others. But I will note a couple more points: 1. it is actually safer and more convenient to chop firewood in a tire, although there are nuances: a) there is not always a tire of the right diameter when you have an ordinary passenger car like a sedan, and b) when you chop a lot and into small fractions - they fill the entire space of the diameter and clamp each other so that it is difficult to pull them out later 2. the tire must be placed in such a way that there is enough space to walk around it 360° in order to hit where it is necessary and where it is convenient 3. I consider point 2:11 to be half-correct: it is necessary to chop from the edge, but not with the entire area of the cleaver. This puts this moment in time at 2:18 - not a split, but at 2:23 - a split. Because the sharp part went in at an acute angle, not parallel to the wood because it is so banal that there is more resistance! So I place the wood as low as possible and make the swing as wide as possible. For me, it's like a sport and a struggle to optimize the process: how to swing and split with one hit, so as not to waste energy.

My grandpa used the maul and hammer method. Place maul on log, smash log with hammer. Up until he was 70 he did this by himself, maul in one hand hammer in the other. After 70 he had someone hold maul or swing the hammer😂. Thanks for reminding me of him.

50 years old and I just learned something, thanks.

Outside edge is often over looked as also saves axe or maul handle well done son 👍

😂😂😂 very complicated way to approach a primitive task. 🎉 but hey… I watched the video

Awesome idea....plenty to split this spring.

I had the exact same maul but I swing it like a regular maul that way you hit with twice the force I think the name of the maul was SOTZ monster maul I think they were out of OHIO 22 years I used that maul

Great explanation. But one point is not so good. The pallet as a base cushions your impact. So you lose strength. Greetings Peter from Germany

I lilly broke the weld on that splitting maul so what I made it was a torquing bar from a Chrysler and weld a splitting maul head to the torquing bar and it lasted 10years

Yeah, I guess it takes a 15 pound maul to compensate for the log sitting on a "trampoline". Had you had a proper block at the adequate height, a lighter tool would have done the job without all that knee-bending.

Too much energy absorbed by the pallet underneath. Way better on hard bare ground.

Come around the other side fall over logs break leg ll

GP is Genius

W hen you get to be 30 years old that 15 lb Monster Maul will speak to your back. Count on it. Get a Fiskars. They split better than Monster and and more efficiently.Bill coming.

where did you purchase your 15lb mual?

I want your dog

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That is awesome. Very informative and helpful. Now sit in a wheelchair with one hand and swing a maul to split that same technique. Not trying to be a smartass, just saying.

Ohio man

Definitely not fastest way many other manual fast ways

sorry, i would have done it with a 2.5lb axe. one swing every time.