Splitting Wood the easy & correct way during the 2nd Great Depression: 2007-2014

[OEFvet1986]

Its crazy peopel dont know how to do this. The technique you teach wont work on knotted logs. Sometimes you do need to put alot more "muscle" behind it because just technique by itself wont work. No I wont donate to you, perhaps I should teach a wood splitting course and people could donate to me?

[msungs]

My family and I are building a house and we are getting one solar panel (it is all we can afford)...we live overseas. I want to have a chimney in case the SHTF with inflation once the Dollar and Euro collapse. It is too expensive to have this installed. Eventually we will get solar panels to be self sufficient (good investment and protection). In the meantime I at least know how to properly split wood (that could come in handy) once Ben Shalom Bernanke blows up the remaining worth of the $.

[SuperRoger1953]

I personally wouldnt split wood that close to a car.You have taken precautions with your positioning and maybe with that tyre (tire!) but novices in particular can send wood,or even the maul,flying considerable distances. Free wood is not so free if you have to pay for repairs to a car (or underlying driveway).If space is restricted its a good idea to stand the log inside an old tyre .Bits are much less likely to fly off.

[martialme84]

The 2nd great depression lasted till 2016, not just 2014.

Learn your history better!

[0HippyHunter0]

Thank god gas is below $3/mbtu! Know who to thank for that? Government? No. Environmentalists? No. Hippies? No. Big oil companies! Yep, scientists at massive companies figured out how to get heating costs down by half and ensure the energy furture of the US for a century.

[katwillny]

Great video HOMEBOY. I was using the Gibroni technique and my back would kill me afterwards. Thanks Rock.

[drackar]

A bit late to the party on this, but...I have to say I find the concept of a video giving advice on how to safely split firewood...while standing on iced over compacted snow, to be highly ironic. Slipping while swinging a maul and landing up on your back with the maul's head in your shin is also a rather nasty doctors bill.

[Bergred]

@drackar --You are late, the boots are spiked, welcome anyway and good advice.

[drackar]

@Bergred

huh. I looked through for something on that subject. Must have missed it.

[polishdickhead]

The squat you describe has been doctored up by the insurance industry to prevent back injuries. All it does is make you loose your balance and create less expensive knee injuries.

[Bergred]

@polishdickhead--If you loose balance while squatting down I would suggest you not cut wood and just pay for the high priced gas you will be purchasing or walk around in your house with much clothing and set thermostat to 50. You must really be uncoordinated as my grandma was splitting wood like this into her early 70s. I would suggest you get a personal trainer to teach you how to squat down, as I don't recall anyone falling back while squatting down, maybe babies beginning to learn to walk.

[flamedrag18]

great video, my only advice would be to get a splitting block and a reasonably wide tire to fit over the block. the tire keeps the split wood together and forces it to split completely, so the wood doesn't go flying everywhere's, just makes the job easier.

[TVTruther]

@flamedrag18 --What's so ironic about that is I saw a Youtube vid on just that concept [great769] and I'm trying to get a truck tire, as I want something wider in that inner circle. Will be doing a vid soon on using splitting wedges for those pieces (wide-big wood or irregular) one cannot split with maul--regardless of how hard you hit them.

[flamedrag18]

@TVTruther about a maul not splitting any log, you can split any log with a maul, but instead of striking the middle, you strike the sides off until you do the whole thing, it's easier and not as labor intensive with the same results of splitting in the middle and going out. also, the weight of the block keeps it steady when splitting the side off instead of losing balance when split directly in half.

[algoreisahoax]

ur a alex jones listener and infowar reader.good vid

[ddieterich]

I never said free, split wood. I said free, ready to be split wood (like the stuff in your yard). If I'm to save money n have a meaningful retirement I need to fo as you do and find bucked wood to split. No truck, no trees.

[Bergred]

@ddieterich--I have no truck also but do have a 5 x 8 trailer I pull with van or the 4 door sedan, the trailer costed about $350 as it didn't have no floor or walls, I built the walls 2.5 feet high and can transport about a half to three quarters of a cord a load depending on sizes of wood. I get wood two ways...on the land I have and by scouring Craigslist and advertising on CL for free firewood in which I cut de-limb and throw in a pile which they burn. Got five cords via CL this fall.

[deasttn]

US stocks clocked in a total return of 17.9 percent, as measured by the Wilshire 5000 index, the broadest measure of US stocks.

Where can I get free wood delivered to my house that's already been bucked and ready to be split?

[Bergred]

@deasttn--Free wood that's split and delivered? Never heard of it.

[deasttn]

@Bergred

I never said free, split, delivered wood. I said free, bucked, delivered wood. No truck, no trees. So I guess the advice won't help me with the finances. I'm sure it'll help some, though.

[flamedrag18]

@deasttn never gonna happen, when you get free wood, it's usually from clearing a property or leftovers from a clear cutting softwood and they want the hardwood off the land asap so they can plant again, hardwood is a nuisance to pulp wood land owners, nothing is truly free, you'd need to get someone to haul it for you or yourself go and get it in one way or another.

[JustinBaker2567]

I would get a chopping block. You won't have to squat nearly as much and you won't strike the ground. Just makes things much easier.

[Bergred]

@JustinBaker2567 --Agreed. I like to use a wide oak or maple base that's less than a foot high because you need the axe to have that distance to create the speed/power factor. Having a stump that's high negates much power and you need to squat down in order to "pull it down" (the maul) with your bodyweight.

[markus11b]

@Bergred -- I disagree, using a block requires you to lift up each piece to be split. I leave it on the ground, set up several pieces and swing away. Cutting forks and crotches shorter helps with them. Cold weather helps, plus I have more time in the winter. Good excersise and satisfying too.

[TheMango121]

ez splitting... not all wood is easy to split like this

[Bergred]

@TheMango121--Agreed. I got 5 cords of hard maple and it's very hard to split and I'm going to let it season, living in minnesota has an advantage though, when it's very cold, it splits easier as the moisture in the wood expands. Same technique is used, just more faster and stronger.

[eatnosenuggets]

gravity = 9.81 m/s (squared) or 32.2 ft/s (squared). You neglected the squared part of the calculation. 

[dreadloackratahaaaa]

fair play.. interesting vid..