[TheForge] Re: Hard to split

[Andrew Vida]

OK, I still have some of it on the pile... I'll go look and report back.

Mike Spencer wrote:
>> Andy,  What makes you think it was oak?  Maybe it is elm. 
> 
> Ha!  You beat me to it.
> 
> In the very first year I heated with wood, fresh out of collitch, I
> proudly hauled home a load of elm, a whole tree already sawn into
> stove-length bolts and free for the hauling.  I was already the owner
> of a shiny, late-model axe with few miles on it.  Ho ho ho...
> ho.....hum. Um... Yeahhhhhhh.
> 
> I now split around 5 cord of firewood a year by hand.  With a 6- or
> 7-pound maul. None of it is elm.  The hardest are gnarly chunks of
> beech.  Oak is always the easiest to split.
> 
> 
> FWIW,
> - Mike,
> 

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	-Andy V.

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