[TheForge] Blacksmith sledge hammer

[Andrew Vida]

Speaking of which, I cut up a fallen oak a couple weeks ago.  It's been 
down for what looks to have been several years.  Tree was suspended off 
the ground and the wood is top drawer material for the wood stove.  The 
one branch of the trunk was only about 8" in diameter, so after bucking 
it up I took the maul to it.  I never have problems with logs that wide 
but this stuff was like steel.  I am not sure I have ever encountered a 
wood that was this tough to split for fuel.

Anyone know why this wood was so tough?

	-Andy

Stephen Snow wrote:
> if you are splitting wood, you can use it to drive in a wedge on the tough-to-split logs.
>