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[FriendwithTractor]

Here's hoping someone can learn from my pain:

Dad and I hooked the splitter up for it's annual trip to the mountain. Got it all set up, started up and running.
We're humming along and I reach for a piece just off the wedge that I know will need to be re-split (Didn't get a clean split, so it's hinged with a few wood fibers hanging on)
I misjudged how much it weighed and the hunk of wood slammed the tip of my ring finger against the splitting cylinder. Saw stars, said some very not nice words and needed to stop for the day.

Don't think I'll lose the fingernail, but new lesson learned: Let the stupid wood fall, if you need to re-split it, pick it up off the ground dummy!

 

[Duds13]

I cut my longer lengths as a multiple of 18" to avoid as much of that as possible. But when there is no choice, I start splitting the difference when I get to about 3 or 4 cuts from the end. I always start from the thick end, so the shorter pieces are smaller diameter and then those get tossed on top of the previous row in the wood pile. It helps the woodpile stability to not have them down lower.

When I mark the tree with the 16" magnetic measuring stick attached to my saw blade, I always start at the biggest part of the tree. Once I get to wrist size parts of branches, I usually just eyeball it. Unfortunately I didn't cut these chunks, a tree service guy did.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Here's hoping someone can learn from my pain:

Dad and I hooked the splitter up for it's annual trip to the mountain. Got it all set up, started up and running.
We're humming along and I reach for a piece just off the wedge that I know will need to be re-split (Didn't get a clean split, so it's hinged with a few wood fibers hanging on)
I misjudged how much it weighed and the hunk of wood slammed the tip of my ring finger against the splitting cylinder. Saw stars, said some very not nice words and needed to stop for the day.

Don't think I'll lose the fingernail, but new lesson learned: Let the stupid wood fall, if you need to re-split it, pick it up off the ground dummy!

yeah did that once... it's far from the heart but still hurt like a bi&^%

 

[ning]

A lot of my wood is twisty-turny and rather than have a 16-18" piece with a right angle bend in the middle of it I'll often cut them shorter. As you said it all burns and when I stack them in my totes the little **** goes in the middle

 

[ericm979]

I recently cut up some tree service wood where the tree service had been instructed to cut into firewood lengths. Someone even marked 16" cuts using lumber crayon. The rounds were still long or short by quite a ways. My 16" rounds aren't perfect but they're way better than this was. I had some other tree service wood where they cut it to about 24" with 45 degree angled cuts. I think very few of our tree service guys have cut firewood.

 

[Rockbadchild]

I measure mine with my chainsaw blade, its quick and easy.

 

[Duds13]

I recently cut up some tree service wood where the tree service had been instructed to cut into firewood lengths. Someone even marked 16" cuts using lumber crayon. The rounds were still long or short by quite a ways. My 16" rounds aren't perfect but they're way better than this was. I had some other tree service wood where they cut it to about 24" with 45 degree angled cuts. I think very few of our tree service guys have cut firewood.

Agreed!

 

[Gordon Gould]

I try to cut my firwood logs a multiple of 3' - 18', 21', 24' and my blocks 18" but there a lots of reasons this doesn't always work out. When I'm splitting I throw the the undesirables, ie shorts, excessive rot, softwood, or unstackables, in a separate pile and then put them in front of the wood shed under the overhang to use early when we typically only want a small fire. This years junk almost gone.

gg

 

[MadJack]

Here's hoping someone can learn from my pain:

Dad and I hooked the splitter up for it's annual trip to the mountain. Got it all set up, started up and running.
We're humming along and I reach for a piece just off the wedge that I know will need to be re-split (Didn't get a clean split, so it's hinged with a few wood fibers hanging on)
I misjudged how much it weighed and the hunk of wood slammed the tip of my ring finger against the splitting cylinder. Saw stars, said some very not nice words and needed to stop for the day.

Don't think I'll lose the fingernail, but new lesson learned: Let the stupid wood fall, if you need to re-split it, pick it up off the ground dummy!

PICKROON, get one! Wicked back saver.

 

[Rockbadchild]

18” is a nice length, the most annoying are the side cuts for sure … I always have the notch and sometimes when they get stuck while falling one or two more and the big branch too they can be tricky to cut square. I split by axe so i notice them a lot lol and as well I always have my shitty wood pile on the side … this year I cord it length wise in the wood shack but next time I will try width wise.