Chopping wood like slicing a pie

[u/ActiveCardiologist51]

[u/Unban_thx]

Somehow it doesn’t look so easy when I chop wood.

[u/Sad-Cauliflower6656 → u/Unban_thx]

This is incredibly dry wood

[u/Oak-humor → u/Sad-Cauliflower6656]

Dry splits harder in my experience. But it is frozen solid and knotless, both drivers of easy choppin.

[u/Sad-Cauliflower6656 → u/Oak-humor]

I should have mentioned the frozen, but chopping fresh wood is the biggest pain

[u/AmiDeplorabilis → u/Oak-humor]

Correct. In dry wood, the sap helps hold the wood together. Fresh wood is easy to split, especially if it's notty.

[u/Foragologist → u/Sad-Cauliflower6656]

Well seasoned, and straight grained. 

[u/Huachu12344 → u/Foragologist]

Dry aged to perfection

[u/Stitchs420]

Saw "LiveLeak", got very nervous 😬😳

[u/Western_Shoulder_942 → u/Stitchs420]

Exactly what I was thinking took another look to make sure I didn't find a sub for something else. Lol

[u/SirGreeneth]

Love to see the slices of pie OP be serving lol

[u/ActiveCardiologist51 → u/SirGreeneth]

[u/Subtlerevisions]

Anytime I see the liveleak logo on a video I have to make sure my kids aren’t looking over my shoulder.

[u/Rickenbacker138]

I have that same fiskers splitter and it’s a beast.

[u/Flat_Assistance1724 → u/Rickenbacker138]

F***'ing love my Fiskars. Have the axe, maul, and hatchet. As well as their hookaroon

[u/Sheffieldsvc]

Pretty sure that was not a log from a gum tree.

[u/pbrassassin]

Cool, doo hickory

[u/infinite0ne → u/pbrassassin]

Then mesquite

[u/garden-wicket-581 → u/pbrassassin]

hell, do beech and I'll eat that piece of pie ..

[u/JohnDoe_Z]

When i see "Live leak" i was scare

[u/petantic]

Honestly, anyone could do this, it's not very big and has zero knots. You can see from the vid that you've got to be careful not to hit the block too hard.

An alternative to the elastic chain thing, put your wood in an old car tyre before splitting.

[u/It-s_Not_Important → u/petantic]

Car tire has a fixed radius.

[u/petantic → u/It-s_Not_Important]

Also has a fixed price of zero.

[u/janne_harju]

Fiskars make very good axes.

[u/VampireEmpyre]

I want that big piece.......

[u/Puhkers]

I have the fiskars x27 splitting axe and the 10lb maul. For the price, it really can't be beat; it comes with a lifetime warranty

[u/Waterwalker85 → u/Puhkers]

I have both, but an 8lb maul, hell would love those both over anything, they’re the best

[u/petergriffin999]

You are not invited to Thanksgiving at my house.

[u/dimmsimm]

Show me that with Oak.

[u/artmoloch777]

Reminds me of moms special underwear

[u/Mac_Hooligan]

Me and my grandpa used old tires, he had 6 different sizes that we would use to do the same thing essentially, worked well most of the time! This would have been way better lol

[u/Southernlife75]

Yeah, now try that with oak.

[u/Krypto_kurious]

An old tire works pretty well too, and you don't have hook and unhook a chain

[u/hitemlow → u/Krypto_kurious]

Doesn't that kinda limit the sizes you can work with, moreso than the chain?

[u/garden-wicket-581]

hitting the far side of the billet and bouncing the handle off the near edge doesn't seem/feel like good form.. but I'm old and pay someone like this to deliver my wood already split ..

[u/Blacksmith_Heart → u/garden-wicket-581]

Exactly what I thought when seeing this, this is how to knacker the throat of the handle and cause your maul head to fly off when you least expect it.

[u/heezyjos]

I feel like the Bush Radical on YouTube should try this out

[u/Due_Seesaw_2816]

What kind of animal slices a pie into 17ths!?

[u/Lefty4444]

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