What Axe?

[JonathanB]

On that Kevin McCloud programme "Man Made Home" where he built a log cabin in the woods, he used gunpowder to split up some trunks... looked like fun!

[Genghis the Engineer]

I found this website a while ago when Mrs.G and I were considering buying a small hobby woodland.

http://thesculptorsyard.com/buying-timber

Possibly more lucrative than burning a relatively rare wood like this.

G

[Flintstone]

I always had Mono down as a potential axe murderer. Looks like I wasn't far off.

[Monocock]

I always had Mono down as a potential axe murderer. Looks like I wasn't far off.

Nah, just a Berkshire red-neck.

Some of my rellies...

[Pete L]

I appreciate the thread title was eucalypts, but:-
When I rebuilt my Luton Minor I made a new instrument panel which I covered with a Eucalyptus veneer. I looked at a lot of woods before making this choice. I am now rebuilding a 1935 BSA Scout car and this will be completed in almost matching colours to the Minor. Brunswick green body but the car wings will be black not silver. I intend making a new instrument panel/dashboard for the car also matching the Minor using Eucalyptus

Much nicer to look at rather than just burn it. Is the size suitable for it to be used by a wood turner?

Stuart

Widest pieces of the trunk are about 2' - it was sliced across rather than along - most welcome if suitable.

[NickS]

Splitting wedge and a sledgehammer always did it for me.

Same here - with the addition of a 15yo son. It is amazing how much he can produce in an hour if he irritates me sufficiently. (Are we still allowed to use Hard Labour these days?)

Nick

[Pete S]

Splitting wedge and a sledgehammer always did it for me.

Same here - with the addition of a 15yo son. It is amazing how much he can produce in an hour if he irritates me sufficiently. (Are we still allowed to use Hard Labour these days?)

Nick

Cautionary Tale: Make sure the head of the wedge is not 'burred'.

In the early 90s an old boy was admitted to casualty locally having collapsed while splitting logs with his son.

Initially everyone thought heart attack and it was only when blood tests showed severe anaemia that it was suggested he was bleeding internally.

Despite immediate surgery when he was opened up his abdomen was full of blood and the source could not be found.

He died on the table and post mortem showed a shard of metal from the head of the wedge had broken off and was propelled by the force of the sledgehammer blow right through his shirt, his abdominal wall, his intestines and sliced a hole in his aorta leading to rapid exsanguination.

Persuaded me to buy an electric/hydraulic log splitter..........

You have been warned.....

[GrahamB]

You have been warned.....

Blimey, gruesome indeed.

I survived my twenty years of splitting, which sadly came to an end when we sold up the holding and moved to places without wood burners or open fires.

[Flyingmac]

Get one of these guys in. If they still have both hands. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... 7gH9SObKVA