Dealing with big hard wood with a sledgehammer made me wince. There are better ways of sorting that out you know? 😉

I've used these wedges before when I was tree felling pines and eucalyptus in alien tree clearing, they work well although I wasn't using them to split the wood as such. If you cut a wedge into a tree while felling and you need to make sure that it falls in the correct direction, you can use those wedges. 

Hope your muscles don't scream too much later tonight, although that kind of workout always feels worth it. 

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Not with a ten-foot pole will I touch this one. 

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Yes... I think back in 2020! 
Unlike you I had encountered that Mr. Wood not in any random lawn rather in wild while struggling for survival. 
We (team) were travelling (that was our 3rd day of trekking) and our destination was the highest cascade of that hill tract area. 

There were two way to reach that cascade. 
1. You cross a long way and get on the highest peak and then come down a littke straight and there you reach the perfect destination to enjoy that cascade
2. Or you start from the bottom of the cascade and ride throughout the trail to reach that perfect spot. 

This time we mixed up the trails in the beggining and had to follow the trail that start from the bottom and gradually to go up by that trail of thin water canal, shar high pitched rocks and so on. 

And on the midway we had encountered a wood. A huge tree was just naturally eradicated by it’s root and blocking the road. It also seemed slippery and risky because of long time being under the rain and all.
 
And of course all we had with us are dry foods and some clothes in oir backpack. Nothing to deal with this kind of huge wood. 

So either we have to take the risk and cross it over or we turn back and take the trail to go where we started.
3 of us actually did and visited the cascade. But with other 2, I hadn’t had the guts to deal with it with all those fatiuge, wet clothes, bag for heavy rain 😶 
I still feel like that damn wood was smirking and laughing at us 😒

That's so cute that you found an easter egg. Right in time to not forget that we all remain kids overall and the way we feel inside is what matters the most, not the number from our ID card :)

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Since I'm a woman, I've never had hard wood to resolve, but I have helped others with theirs on occasion. 🤣

My Dad loved to split wood with a wedge and an axe for the fireplace and later the wood stove.  He did that for years.  Later in life, he purchased a gas powered  hydraulic wood splitter and used that instead.  He would have the tree trunks delivered to his yard and he would use the chainsaw to get them down into liftable sizes and then usually he and my brothers would have a wood splitting day where they would split, stack and cover it to dry out for later use.

It was quite a job, even with the splitter.

>and even found a chocolate Easter egg in a tree at the park; the remnant of a kids Easter egg hunt. Sucks to be them, finders keepers you little buggers!

😂😂Happy Easter

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Although I know it has nothing to do with it, while reading your post I remembered the wooden cross that Jesus of Nazareth had to carry. And why not, in the amount of problems that some people have to carry on their shoulders. Like your wood, those problems will need the right tools to be solved and sometimes, people don't have those tools. Everything would be easier if we had the right tools to solve problems. Have a nice Monday, @galenkp. And good luck with your wood

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I can usually get by with a splitting maul and wedges, but I have a story about some big stubborn wood that I just could not seem to beat into submission. I had a pair of big Monterey pines in my yard in California that died and needed cutting down. Splitting them by hand was literally impossible. It was extremely twisted and gummy. 

I bought three different log splitters. The first one was one of those electric hydraulic ones. That one broke almost immediately. The second one was a screw type one that augers into the wood, powered by the 3-point pto on the tractor, and it worked pretty good for a little while but eventually that one broke from the shaft bending. The twisted grains were just too much for those machines. 

Third one was a charm. It was made with a dump truck cylinder and so the shaft was very girthy. It was kind of dangerous because the design allowed the front of the ram to move side to side as it thrust, and the pieces would sometimes shoot out of there when they popped loose and fling off in unexpected directions. It still struggled to push through. Ultimately I prevailed, and the wood was taken down. 

Your photo just reminds me of people deriding "old men taking photos of trees" which seems to be part of every photography course on the planet XD

<sub>I did get mildly exasperated with J's insane volume of tree photos when he was practising but trees are a pretty good subject because they're big, easy to compose and don't freaking move, and have nice textures for closeups so kind of obvious why they're main subjects</sub>

Wood splitting sounds like hard work, least you'll get more muscle building out of it? x_x

Haven't had to physically split any wood, we do have fireplaces in the house but they got stuff put in them (the kitchen fireplace has the stove in it and the living room fireplace has a gas outlet and gas heater).

All done now? :)

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