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The Art of Splitting Firewood
There are rules for splitting wood. I learned them the hard way, through trail and error. Quite often fire wood is delivered just as it comes from the tree. When a tree is felled, the branches are cut off. The log is then cut across its' width, in slices that look like giant round pills, or disks. I like to call these rounds of wood,
or just rounds. I can look at a round of wood and read the correct way to split it apart. The round of wood imposes its' own conditions on you, the splitter. If you don't follow the rules, it will take a lot of time and effort to split the round of firewood apart. The piece of wood will
actually resist your efforts to split it.
It takes so much less energy, following the splitting rules. Lets say your basic round of wood is 2 to 3 feet across, laying on one of it's flat sides. Inspect the vertical side of the round for branches that were cut off. These are known as knots. These knots usually go all the way to the center of the round of wood. They travel in straight lines toward the center of the piece of wood. The knots are shaped like rods, or cylinders. They are very strong and tough to cut across.
So the number 1 rule is, don't split, or cut across the knot tubes, inside the round of wood.
Make you cut parallel, or inline with to the knot tube. Also look for cracks on the flat surface of the round.
They often stretch from the edge of the wood to the center of the round. If the crack doesn't cross a knot tube, then that is a good location to start chopping with your splitting maul, or axe. If the crack stretches most
of the way across the round, start chopping at the edge. Chop at one edge, and then all the way across at the other edge. Then chop a couple of times toward the center of the round. Don't chop first, in the middle of the round. Your axe could get stuck in the wood there.
When you see the crack on the top of the wood separate you are making good progress. Often you will hear a big cracking sound as the wood splits apart.
when the round of wood has split in half, the remainder of the chopping into smaller pieces goes much quicker, and easier.
Just continue using the knot tube rule, and your fire wood
splitting will go smoothly. |
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