Sunday, April 19, 2009

Not exactly gardening ...

... log splitting to be precise.

We have had a stack of large logs left from the white oak that we cut down and it seemed time to tidy things up and get them split. We rented a log splitter from Keogh's Rentals in Ridgefield. Man, that thing is unbelievable and kind of scary at the same time. It will split, cleave and generally crush a large piece of white oak like it was nothing. We very quickly learned that we had to operate it seated and it helped to have one person wrangle the wood and one person operate the lever, run the wheelbarrow full of split wood to the pile, stack and generally do all the other stuff.







Bad technique


Good technique - you can fly doing it this way.

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