[TheForge] Blacksmith sledge hammer

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Andy; are those suddenly wedges and hammer handles?

Andrew Vida wrote:
> 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.
>>
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