Bike tire wood split trick

this is pretty sweet for smaller pieces

a couple motorcycle tires works wonders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=2O4SloB6uvE&feature=endscreen

Nice! Thanks Morgan.

Bicycle tubes work great for this. You can stretch them around the logs and split away without picking up sticks. Double or triple wrap the tube as needed.

For splitting wood. I wish the only wood I needed to split was dry, softwood with a nice straight grain. But most of the wood needing splitting at our place is Hardwood, not 90% dry. I would like to see a Video of splitting wood that is Hardwood like our normal wood.

I had good luck with this. It has a 22 ton RAM and big blocks can be rolled rather than lifted.

When splitting smaller blocks, I like to use it in the horizontal position for less stooping. I split some 3 ft ash rounds that were knotty. Around 300 lb per block, so rolling was hard enough.

Wood boiler is the way to go. I burn 18” rounds that are 30” long. It will take a 24” round 36” long, but I don't like to like to lift them and you have to get them in just right.

My wood oven and grill need split or tinny rounds so I set anything that should split good to the side then cutting wood.