I dont mean to be offtopic but does anybody know of a way to get back into an Instagram account? I was dumb lost my login password. I love any help you can offer me.
@Yael Wallace I really appreciate your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm in the hacking process now. Takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
you should buy a sawmill if you got wood like that around lol, I used to split huge logs with a single wedge splitter, now I saw them on my woodmizer and just split limb wood in half one time...it is so much easier and more profitable .I burn firewood in my maple syrup evaporator, and I burn coal in my house, but with a reverse Osmosis I really dont need that much firewood....but if I had to buy a bigger splitter I have had my eye on the easton made, I talked to the owner at the Paul Bunyan show... his dad is the owner of Bell's Machining that makes the big firewood processors. He knows how to build a splitter for sure and I LOVE the color scheme. I'm not nitpicking but now that I have a woodmizer I just cringe everytime I see big gorgeous logs being cut and split knowing the potential beautiful lumber that log may have had inside, its really hard to watch...even if it has knots and twists that can make really charactered panels or something
I should be getting a bundler in a few weeks. I have a local welding school that volunteered to make it for me as a class project. Can’t wait to get it
I really like the box wedges. Eastonmade has the best design. Other seem to struggle to push wood through it, or make a big mess. The eastonmade handled that big hickory like it was nothing.
Shagbark Hickory is some of the toughest splitting wood you can find. Especially when it is knotty. That 12-22 didn't have any problems with it at all. When you lifted the first round up the splitter barley moved. The quality of a Eastonmade splitter is just the best in the industry hands down.
@@HometownAcres Thanks for posting the 1st video my box wedge and arm setup will be arriving shortly for my 12-22. I feel it is the best commercial splitter money can buy in my opinion i am 100% satisfied .The customer service is second to none and is as good as the splitter . Andrew truly wants a happy customer and is a wonderful guy to deal with !!!
You didn’t finish the job I saw a lot of wood still on the ground lol. That splitter is a firewood making machine mowing through that hickory. I can attest to the hickory being tough as I worked through the rest of mine yesterday 24”-30” rounds. Take care brother.
certainely way faster and easier than any firewood splitting I've ever had to do, how much did that unit cost? I know they get pricey especially if you want the conveyor with it
I don't know about anyone else but I save the scrap pieces from log splitter as a great way to get a fire going. You could bag that material up to sell it.
If you can appreciate what a quality tool like the eastonmade can do, you owe it to yourself to get a professional grade chainsaw. A 70cc class saw will do anything you want it to, cut circles around your 455 and last way longer. If you’re partial to husky, 372xp or 572xp, stihl, 461/462, you won’t go wrong and wonder why you didn’t get one sooner!
I could get a 372 for about $799 from my local store. But I do really like the Stihl 462 as well even though I am partial to husqvarna. I think the 462 is like $1,200 or something though
Hometown Acres I really liked the 462 as well, however I have ran 372’s and other husqvarna’s for so long I have accumulated parts and lots of bar/chains. I recently bought a 572 and am very happy with it. If you have a dealer in the area that’s better for one brand or the other definitely factor that in. The 572 and 462 both have electronic carburetor control that kinda require more dealer support.
Craigslist man!!! I picked up a ms660 magnum from a guy in Missouri who didn’t know what he had for $350. Took it to the shop and replaced the intake line and starter paws and starter rope...she’s treated me awesomely ever since. Even put a 32” bar with ripping chain and milled some cedar and built a crib for my new daughter with it.
Good morning Adam. The splitter is pretty impressive. Great demo of how well it can handle the big, heavy, hard, stringy stuff. Thanks for sharing! Cheers!
That box wedge is incredible! Going through large knotty hickory log like nothing! First time I see this model of splitter! I should have built that! New subscriber here! And ready for more splitting action this spring! Thanks for sharing Adam!
Wow, the more I watch that splitter in operation the more I wished they were around thirty and forty years ago, would have saved a me a lot of swings with a splitting maul. Next, you need to challenge that machine with some knotty, nasty hedge.
Holy crap that is a heck of a score!! I hope most of that is going in your “keep for personal use pile”...lol. Also how was it smelling? I always find splitting hickory just stinks & then it makes me wonder why anyone would wanna cook/smoke with it...hahahaha
The 455 is more than capable of handling that kind of wood, I used a 49cc Poulan to cut even larger rounds for years. The trick is to let the chain cut at its own pace and not force it, keeping the chain speed up is more important than forcing it to take a big bite. When I upgraded, I went with a 460 to be able to pull a 24 in chain through the thickest stuff and find that I am still going back to my 49cc to process the vast majority of my wood. I have not had gas or central heat for the past 19 years and have used wood exclusively since. I would kill to have a splitter like yours, I have heated our house with wood using only a saw and splitting axes and wedges.
Wow, stories like yours impress the hell out of me. I see how much work it is even with the equipment I have, tractor, side by side, saw, splitter. I can’t imaging gather an entire winters worth of wood by hand. Absolutely incredible
@@HometownAcres The advantage is it keeps me from getting fat, I have teenaged sons now that pitch in but we can split wood faster by hand than using a small splitter. We burn mostly oak and Hickory with elm on occasion but only when its dried well, Oak and Hickory bust easier when they are green, whereas Elm and real knotty woods have to be dried, or use a hydraulic splitter. On average we burn between 4 to 7 cords depending on the winter feeding one large woodstove in the center of the house and a small bix stove that has been custom modified to be airtight and have a secondary burn chamber. We use a small space heater to level out the temp fluctuations but it only turns on for maybe a half hour a day.
Should always have at least a couple saws at the cut site. I run a 455 for general cuts but have a 575 XP and an 066 for larger larger logs like that. I run all my saws with 20" bar so that all my chains are the same in my saw bag. I do have a 24" bar for the 575 XP but I very seldom ever need it.
If you need a bigger saw look on Craigslist.. Got a Husqvarna 371 and a 61 for cheap. Lots of good deals on there now… I love the 371, seems to cut as good as my 461 Stihl.
Nice video. Yes, hickory is excellent firewood, a lot BTUs. The Eastonmade splitter does an great job. You need to use a 72-90cc saw for those big loads. I would recommend the Husqvarna 572 with a 28” bar.
Hi ya Adam, I think I asked in another video about the Eastonmade. Im about to buy either a 12-22 or a 22-28 and there's a pretty big price difference. I have tree service wood as my primary source but so far what they have dropped off hasn't been knotty at all but just big (anywhere from 20-30") and wondering if the 22-28 is worth the 4'ish k difference.
That stringy hickory is tough ! But the Eaton powered through. I have a hickory blowdown at my cabin, haven’t got to it yet .anxious to see how the wolf ridge does. Good video Adam thanks for sharing!
Good video, of that nice looking machine. Well to me sure it might could be, but I don't think it's hickory, sure I haven't split hickory, so it could be, but I know elm wood is similar to that as in stringie.
Yeah, usually it’s really gnarly twisted stuff. All I do then is flip the log to a less knotty spot and split as much straighter grained stuff as I can and then leave the twisted section for my wood stove or bonfire wood
Hickory, White Oak, Hedge Apple are the 3 best in my area. Only burn the Hedge Apple/ Bois De Arc in an enclosed stove, it is not fireplace wood, but is is as power dense as coal.
You need a Husqvarna 955. I have one and it goes through logs like that no problems. You can get a 20 and 24 in bar with it. It’s run around $800 to $900 but is well worth it especially if you cut a lot. Just thought I would send that out to you. Hope this helps you out. Have a good day!!
One of the most impressive things is the machines ability to load these very heavy rounds up on the splitter and to move them back and forth with the box splitter without jamming up.
Yes it really does all of the hard work for you. I couldn’t imagine swinging a maul in these large hickory rounds. It would have just bounced right out
Hello friends. I’m relatively new to firewood. I pick up free logs that a tree service drops off at a local park. I’m good at identifying the ones like oak and hard maple. But sometimes there’s some stuff that’s harder to identify. Is there someone here who can help me identify some of the stuff? The tree companies here in New Jersey aren’t much help. It’s important because I need to use this wood for cooking. Thanks very much.
@@HometownAcres 372 used that's pre xtorq and have it ported by a good builder. Itll scream. I cut firewood with a ported 288xp and a ported ms441c arctic. Great for 20 to 24 inch bars.
From years of splitting firewood for my home heating supply, I found that Hickory and English Elm were to two hardest trees to cut and split. You could see the strain on the Eastonmade Splitter.
I know hickory is plenty hard.I got into some old Live oak logs that a ax just bounces off and my 40 ton splitter wont split. These logs eat chainsaw chains no matter how you sharpen them. They do drill pretty good though and bring out chips like a piece steel. I am going to buy a carbide chain and try that next.
Not many yet. I dug out some stumps when I got it but down here a little further south than you has been a terrible winter. Some snow and frozen ground then a warm up and rain, rinse and repeat. Nothing but a mud pit winter. Wife has been mad wanting me to get more gravel for the drive way which of course would just disappear into to mud, not throwing away my money on that. Debating whether or not a filter fabric would help keep it from disappearing. Maybe in the spring might be digging up my foundation to rewaterproof it so that will be a good task.
jason cline winter has been just about the same here. We’ve probably gotten a little more snow and colder temperatures but today is gonna be 50 degrees and just outright greasy out
Great video (again). Question: Can you show the waste that is generated from the box wedge? I've heard there is quite a bit of waste from these. I do my splitting by hand but like to watch these machines at work. WIth that waste, what do you do with it?
@@HometownAcres Yeah, give it a little thought. I'd be interested in knowing what you have learned. I stack mine in single file between two trees and lay a strip of plastic over the top. I'm not gonna build any shacks. Is this the right way? Hell, I don't know! I'm a weekend warrior, not a lumberjack. I see your stacks are uncovered. Does this extend seasoning time?
the shagbark is my favorite for just about all kinds of bar b Que and meat smoking as well as heating in winter. and amazingly hard wood with very high BTU rating
Came over from Tractor Tech's channel since Roger mentioned you will be in the log splitting demonstration on 18 April 2020. Came over to show support. New Subscriber!! That's one monster of a machine. Full-watch.
I need to know where to send your gold star for “ Always wearing my chaps because a viewer kept busting my balls “ award. Lol. Keep the hickory for smoking or maybe sell to some bbq restaurants. We always need bigger chainsaws! Great video pal!
good to see the box wedge demo as i am considering buying a splitter and do a lot of oak and maple just broke 85 full cord last week for this winter and split everything by hand.
@@HometownAcres in all fairness there is the smaller wood that does not have to be split. i like how i have been told there is no way i could do that much by hand and my reply is how much money are you willing to lose betting on it. i turn 55 in may so i am considering slowing down.
@@waynejohnson9855 well you know what work is. I've selling wood for 12 years an me and my 2 man crew do about 300 ish cord a year by hand as well the funny thing is I cant find a kid that can keep up this old man
@@wileyseifert5769 i hear that about keeping up, i can retire in 2 years and than that will free up more time for firewood, as i work from april til thanksgiving and get cutting around the second week of december. looking to get certified and get into bundles as we had a tornado nearby and the amount of basswood and aspen that was damaged was unreal. and that is why i would go to a splitter like this one with the box wedge.
That grabs and binds wayyyy to much it seems like they’re to close together in my humble opinion. But yes the power is insane that’s one tough machine going through that big and tough of wood especially with how tight the pieces get mushed through seemingly anyways
Thanks for sharing. 👍 for wearing PPE so many people dont. Without wanting to be that guy that tells you what to do... Just watch your left hand while chainsawing try to keep your thumb under the handle it will really help you grip the saw if you get kickback. Good job and keep the videos coming i love them
Great work! Hickory is a pain to split. I hate it. Even on a splitter I have to work the sides before entering the middle on knotty stuff. The shorter the length the better off you are. Besides that's a fantastic smoking/cooking wood, it's better in smaller chunks. I prefer ash for fire wood because its everywhere in the midwest. When I see hickory like that in good condition I always think how beautiful the wood is, and a mill would produce such beautiful boards. But this has a purpose keeping your family warm so it definitely was used for something good. God bless and stay safe!
Hickory tree just saved my shed from Ida, about 8" across must have took the force of a giant oak the hickory is bent over the roof of my shed branches bent & didn't poke any holes in the roof its right on the roof. What a mess
Would that wood push through easier/cleaner if the log went with the grain of the timber through the splitter. We were taught to plane our wood work projects with the grain it cuts smoother. I know its only firewood just wondering the result.
next time park truck aside the wood pile so you dont have to walk at all, just stand near the split wood and load,,,,also, next time, build the house near the wood pile so you dont have to walk so far in the cold winter to get more wood
I am glad to see he finally put a log return feature on the splitter that is a real back saver..... woodmizer hasa splitter that will split in both directions, it makes two pile either side of the operator and splits twice as fast because of that, but the log return on your splitter makes the Easton splitter double quick as normal. definitely saved this in my firewood playlist lol
Good work Adam. I would love to see how that splitter would handle the hard narly Aussie gums like grey box or ironbark. Mate I'll do a deal with you, I'll swap my MS462 for that splitter.
Ironwood is tougher than hickory but hickory is very stringy and tough also those box wedge splitters are awesome consistent pieces and a very well designed way to split wood
Did you get the rest of the tree. Those 3 logs were that much of a partial cord I wouldn't have thought. But I tell you what your spliter is brute strength man I could here that wood tearing. I've split hickory and elm here in Gaines Michigan and a 30ton if you get a logs with 3 or 4 branches itll fight ya really bad. But also I have a husqvarna and a stihl in my opion with both saws within 2 more cc in the husqvarna the stihl cuts better more torque. I have a husqvarna 562 and a stihl 362. I love the saws just use them sometimes different stuff. Wonderful video though
@@HometownAcres there both great saws in oak and hickory the 362 stihl cuts better with a 25in bar. The 562 cuts best with a 20in bar. I use 562 for bucking branches and cutting anything around 22in I use the stihl more in situations when tree is bigger. But in the past I've had better luck with longevity with stihl. Both those saws are pro saws so there pricey I also have a stihl 391 it's the biggest non pro saw you can buy for stihl its 62cc or 64cc and works great with a 25in bar. I have this 562 husky I got it for a really good price and if you are a husky guy I'd go with it power to weight ratio is about as good as you can get I think the next step up from that the chainsaw is almost a grand.
Bryan Blood I’m a Stihl guy but friends with Huskies are still friends.😁 My Farm grade MS311 can go through most anything in NC. I should have got a 392 (Farm grade) but was cheap. Nevertheless, the MS311 will be all I’ll ever need. Hickory trees around here are smooth barked and very wet between the bark and the tree. I think they’re Sand Hickory or Bitternut Hickory. When hit with a splitting axe or maul the bark will slide off the trunk in one piece and water splashes out. They split easily and aren’t stringy. It’s popular for smoking pork BBQ, a North Carolina tradition. Red oak can easily be 30” in diameter and splits easily as well. That’s the reason I have the Stihl. Oak is readily available and I get calls from friends when they see it.
@@delholford987 I have a 391 bought it in 2013 I have the other 2 saws because I have a bad elbow from a car wreck. I actually use a ms170 more than the other 3 I just buy guns chainsaws or just collect tools of any sort. We have shagbark hickory and shale bark hickory but Shag bark are beautiful the way the bark curls. I've been working on this oak tree since 2016 on getting the wood the canopy fell out of it and there a 40ft trunk that's I bet 45in across. And that would be a lot of wood but I'm trying to maybe even get it milled. To me a ms 290 is big enough but I cut trees for a living and sometimes need a 25in bar. But I'd like to see those hickory your refearing to. Up here in michigan we use less hickory and smoke with cherry apple peach wood. But if your in the mountains that's cool I lived in michigan my whole life but I always wish I lived in the Appalachian mountains area. Plus I think the women are better down where you are the women up here are less down to earth.
I am glad to see he finally put a log return feature on the splitter that is a real back saver..... woodmizer hasa splitter that will split in both directions, it makes two pile either side of the operator and splits twice as fast because of that, but the log return on your splitter makes the Easton splitter double quick as normal. definitely saved this in my firewood playlist lol
You could make some money on selling that hickory for smoking
Putting the Eastonmade to the test and it passed with flying colors! Great job, Adam!
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you should buy a sawmill if you got wood like that around lol, I used to split huge logs with a single wedge splitter, now I saw them on my woodmizer and just split limb wood in half one time...it is so much easier and more profitable .I burn firewood in my maple syrup evaporator, and I burn coal in my house, but with a reverse Osmosis I really dont need that much firewood....but if I had to buy a bigger splitter I have had my eye on the easton made, I talked to the owner at the Paul Bunyan show... his dad is the owner of Bell's Machining that makes the big firewood processors. He knows how to build a splitter for sure and I LOVE the color scheme. I'm not nitpicking but now that I have a woodmizer I just cringe everytime I see big gorgeous logs being cut and split knowing the potential beautiful lumber that log may have had inside, its really hard to watch...even if it has knots and twists that can make really charactered panels or something
Oh you did not just put hickory in a splitter. My God whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Holy cow that Eastonmade is a beast of the big hickory.
Awesome!! That splitter is a brute, I’m excited to see you start bundling wood! That hickory would sure make some good smoked food :) take care buddy!
I should be getting a bundler in a few weeks. I have a local welding school that volunteered to make it for me as a class project. Can’t wait to get it
I really like the box wedges. Eastonmade has the best design. Other seem to struggle to push wood through it, or make a big mess. The eastonmade handled that big hickory like it was nothing.
That splitter is a beast, but way too much kindling for me
i like small sticks,,,easier to put into my fireplace insert
He sells it in bundles for campfire wood.
Not to heat a house.
wow. That is impressive adam. Great work
thumb under the handle.....youll need that tip even more when you get a bigger saw
Thanks for the tip!
Shagbark Hickory is some of the toughest splitting wood you can find. Especially when it is knotty. That 12-22 didn't have any problems with it at all. When you lifted the first round up the splitter barley moved. The quality of a Eastonmade splitter is just the best in the industry hands down.
I agree. The thing is built like a tank
@@HometownAcres Thanks for posting the 1st video my box wedge and arm setup will be arriving shortly for my 12-22. I feel it is the best commercial splitter money can buy in my opinion i am 100% satisfied .The customer service is second to none and is as good as the splitter . Andrew truly wants a happy customer and is a wonderful guy to deal with !!!
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You didn’t finish the job I saw a lot of wood still on the ground lol. That splitter is a firewood making machine mowing through that hickory. I can attest to the hickory being tough as I worked through the rest of mine yesterday 24”-30” rounds. Take care brother.
Yeah I could have really used a dump trailer. About 3 or 4 rounds of that stuff all split up fills my tacoma bed. I’ll be back for more later
Hometown Acres actually I’m all caught up except for about a 4’x8’ stack and somehow over half that is hickory lucky me.
Solid video👍 great job Adam
certainely way faster and easier than any firewood splitting I've ever had to do, how much did that unit cost? I know they get pricey especially if you want the conveyor with it
I don't know about anyone else but I save the scrap pieces from log splitter as a great way to get a fire going. You could bag that material up to sell it.
I do that as well. I have a whole yard of it I need to go around and collect
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If you can appreciate what a quality tool like the eastonmade can do, you owe it to yourself to get a professional grade chainsaw. A 70cc class saw will do anything you want it to, cut circles around your 455 and last way longer. If you’re partial to husky, 372xp or 572xp, stihl, 461/462, you won’t go wrong and wonder why you didn’t get one sooner!
I could get a 372 for about $799 from my local store. But I do really like the Stihl 462 as well even though I am partial to husqvarna. I think the 462 is like $1,200 or something though
Hometown Acres
I really liked the 462 as well, however I have ran 372’s and other husqvarna’s for so long I have accumulated parts and lots of bar/chains. I recently bought a 572 and am very happy with it.
If you have a dealer in the area that’s better for one brand or the other definitely factor that in. The 572 and 462 both have electronic carburetor control that kinda require more dealer support.
Craigslist man!!! I picked up a ms660 magnum from a guy in Missouri who didn’t know what he had for $350. Took it to the shop and replaced the intake line and starter paws and starter rope...she’s treated me awesomely ever since. Even put a 32” bar with ripping chain and milled some cedar and built a crib for my new daughter with it.
Got the 461 used(about 5 years old) for 700. Just wish i wasnt so old so i could carry the new fuel injection one!
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Good morning Adam. The splitter is pretty impressive. Great demo of how well it can handle the big, heavy, hard, stringy stuff. Thanks for sharing! Cheers!
Thanks GP. This hickory is a pain in the butt. I’m hoping it’s worth it this summer when I use it in the smoker
That box wedge is incredible! Going through large knotty hickory log like nothing! First time I see this model of splitter! I should have built that! New subscriber here! And ready for more splitting action this spring! Thanks for sharing Adam!
It is a pretty slick operation. Thanks for checking out the channel!
What I like about the box wedge is that it makes kindling also...great fire starter
Wow, the more I watch that splitter in operation the more I wished they were around thirty and forty years ago, would have saved a me a lot of swings with a splitting maul. Next, you need to challenge that machine with some knotty, nasty hedge.
Man I have restaurant that wants only green shagbark hickory, even though they are all over the place I struggle to come up with some. Good score!
Do you charge more for hickory or the same as everything else
Holy crap that is a heck of a score!! I hope most of that is going in your “keep for personal use pile”...lol. Also how was it smelling? I always find splitting hickory just stinks & then it makes me wonder why anyone would wanna cook/smoke with it...hahahaha
Yes I’ll be using that in my smoker this summer haha
The 455 is more than capable of handling that kind of wood, I used a 49cc Poulan to cut even larger rounds for years. The trick is to let the chain cut at its own pace and not force it, keeping the chain speed up is more important than forcing it to take a big bite. When I upgraded, I went with a 460 to be able to pull a 24 in chain through the thickest stuff and find that I am still going back to my 49cc to process the vast majority of my wood. I have not had gas or central heat for the past 19 years and have used wood exclusively since. I would kill to have a splitter like yours, I have heated our house with wood using only a saw and splitting axes and wedges.
Wow, stories like yours impress the hell out of me. I see how much work it is even with the equipment I have, tractor, side by side, saw, splitter. I can’t imaging gather an entire winters worth of wood by hand. Absolutely incredible
@@HometownAcres The advantage is it keeps me from getting fat, I have teenaged sons now that pitch in but we can split wood faster by hand than using a small splitter. We burn mostly oak and Hickory with elm on occasion but only when its dried well, Oak and Hickory bust easier when they are green, whereas Elm and real knotty woods have to be dried, or use a hydraulic splitter. On average we burn between 4 to 7 cords depending on the winter feeding one large woodstove in the center of the house and a small bix stove that has been custom modified to be airtight and have a secondary burn chamber. We use a small space heater to level out the temp fluctuations but it only turns on for maybe a half hour a day.
there was tons of lumber in that log such a shame
Should always have at least a couple saws at the cut site. I run a 455 for general cuts but have a 575 XP and an 066 for larger larger logs like that. I run all my saws with 20" bar so that all my chains are the same in my saw bag. I do have a 24" bar for the 575 XP but I very seldom ever need it.
If you need a bigger saw look on Craigslist.. Got a Husqvarna 371 and a 61 for cheap. Lots of good deals on there now… I love the 371, seems to cut as good as my 461 Stihl.
Nice video. Yes, hickory is excellent firewood, a lot BTUs. The Eastonmade splitter does an great job. You need to use a 72-90cc saw for those big loads. I would recommend the Husqvarna 572 with a 28” bar.
What are you using to sharpen your chain?
I’ve got an electric bench grinder and also a couple of file bits that go in the end of a dremmel or cordless drill
Nice! Would the Eastonmade 5-11 handle that?
I’m not sure I haven’t tried it
Hi ya Adam, I think I asked in another video about the Eastonmade. Im about to buy either a 12-22 or a 22-28 and there's a pretty big price difference. I have tree service wood as my primary source but so far what they have dropped off hasn't been knotty at all but just big (anywhere from 20-30") and wondering if the 22-28 is worth the 4'ish k difference.
Great video. Splitter is a beast
That stringy hickory is tough ! But the Eaton powered through. I have a hickory blowdown at my cabin, haven’t got to it yet .anxious to see how the wolf ridge does. Good video Adam thanks for sharing!
Hickory is a pain in the butt. I’m planning on keeping some for myself for smoking this summer. I hope it is worth it haha
Good video, of that nice looking machine. Well to me sure it might could be, but I don't think it's hickory, sure I haven't split hickory, so it could be, but I know elm wood is similar to that as in stringie.
Have you found anything it won't split?
Yeah, usually it’s really gnarly twisted stuff. All I do then is flip the log to a less knotty spot and split as much straighter grained stuff as I can and then leave the twisted section for my wood stove or bonfire wood
Hickory, White Oak, Hedge Apple are the 3 best in my area. Only burn the Hedge Apple/ Bois De Arc in an enclosed stove, it is not fireplace wood, but is is as power dense as coal.
You need a Husqvarna 955. I have one and it goes through logs like that no problems. You can get a 20 and 24 in bar with it. It’s run around $800 to $900 but is well worth it especially if you cut a lot. Just thought I would send that out to you. Hope this helps you out. Have a good day!!
I built a home using 20/40 ft containers, 2 floors... then I added 4/40ft more for firewood, I like looking for split wood for sale...
$6 to $9 for a hickory hammer handle. What a pity to burn that $$ up. Not to mention $8 a board foot for lumber. Only in America
One of the most impressive things is the machines ability to load these very heavy rounds up on the splitter and to move them back and forth with the box splitter without jamming up.
Yes it really does all of the hard work for you. I couldn’t imagine swinging a maul in these large hickory rounds. It would have just bounced right out
Hello friends. I’m relatively new to firewood. I pick up free logs that a tree service drops off at a local park. I’m good at identifying the ones like oak and hard maple. But sometimes there’s some stuff that’s harder to identify. Is there someone here who can help me identify some of the stuff? The tree companies here in New Jersey aren’t much help. It’s important because I need to use this wood for cooking. Thanks very much.
You have one of the most badass splitters made and a 455 Rancher.... that's funny!
I know I know lol. I’m looking into a 372. The rancher was my first firewood saw and it’s far past due needing an upgrade
@@HometownAcres 372 used that's pre xtorq and have it ported by a good builder. Itll scream. I cut firewood with a ported 288xp and a ported ms441c arctic. Great for 20 to 24 inch bars.
Can’t beat the 372xp the best saw I have ever owned.
Check out the Fiskars Hookaroon. It saves my back when loading firewood from the ground.
From years of splitting firewood for my home heating supply, I found that Hickory and English Elm were to two hardest trees to cut and split. You could see the strain on the Eastonmade Splitter.
I know hickory is plenty hard.I got into some old
Live oak logs that a ax just bounces off and my 40 ton splitter wont split.
These logs eat chainsaw chains no matter how you sharpen them. They do drill pretty good though and bring out chips like a piece steel.
I am going to buy a carbide chain and try that next.
Very nice. Not much more to say, just very nice. Impressive for sure.
Thanks Jason, you get into any fun projects with that backhoe of yours?
Not many yet. I dug out some stumps when I got it but down here a little further south than you has been a terrible winter. Some snow and frozen ground then a warm up and rain, rinse and repeat. Nothing but a mud pit winter. Wife has been mad wanting me to get more gravel for the drive way which of course would just disappear into to mud, not throwing away my money on that. Debating whether or not a filter fabric would help keep it from disappearing. Maybe in the spring might be digging up my foundation to rewaterproof it so that will be a good task.
jason cline winter has been just about the same here. We’ve probably gotten a little more snow and colder temperatures but today is gonna be 50 degrees and just outright greasy out
Great video (again). Question: Can you show the waste that is generated from the box wedge? I've heard there is quite a bit of waste from these. I do my splitting by hand but like to watch these machines at work.
WIth that waste, what do you do with it?
Nice score. Heading out now to exercise my 12-22.
Cool spliter
I always struggle with which logs for lumber vs. firewood. 😂
Oh, say Adam. You need to do a segment on proper seasoning of wood. How long, storage methods for seasoning, different types of woods, etc..
That’s not a bad idea. I’ll see what I can come up with.
@@HometownAcres Yeah, give it a little thought. I'd be interested in knowing what you have learned. I stack mine in single file between two trees and lay a strip of plastic over the top. I'm not gonna build any shacks. Is this the right way? Hell, I don't know! I'm a weekend warrior, not a lumberjack. I see your stacks are uncovered. Does this extend seasoning time?
Stihl, run them for 35 years. Oak, hickory = butter, enough said.
the shagbark is my favorite for just about all kinds of bar b Que and meat smoking as well as heating in winter. and amazingly hard wood with very high BTU rating
Came over from Tractor Tech's channel since Roger mentioned you will be in the log splitting demonstration on 18 April 2020. Came over to show support. New Subscriber!! That's one monster of a machine. Full-watch.
Hey thanks for joining. Glad you’re here. And yes every time I use this splitter I am amazed
How would the new axis do with this size and species of wood?
I have no doubt it would handle it just fine. Having a single knife means a lot less binding of the wood and you can work around knots a lot easier
There is something wonderful about a tree that had to be cut down being turned into firewood.
Primal....Eastonmade brings us back to the modern times.
I need to know where to send your gold star for “ Always wearing my chaps because a viewer kept busting my balls “ award. Lol. Keep the hickory for smoking or maybe sell to some bbq restaurants. We always need bigger chainsaws! Great video pal!
Haha I just wear them all the time now. Sawing wood, splitting wood, running the tractor, sleeping...
Hometown Acres 😅
good to see the box wedge demo as i am considering buying a splitter and do a lot of oak and maple just broke 85 full cord last week for this winter and split everything by hand.
Holy cow. 85 by hand. You sir are the real Paul Bunyan
@@HometownAcres in all fairness there is the smaller wood that does not have to be split. i like how i have been told there is no way i could do that much by hand and my reply is how much money are you willing to lose betting on it. i turn 55 in may so i am considering slowing down.
@@waynejohnson9855 well you know what work is. I've selling wood for 12 years an me and my 2 man crew do about 300 ish cord a year by hand as well the funny thing is I cant find a kid that can keep up this old man
@@wileyseifert5769 i hear that about keeping up, i can retire in 2 years and than that will free up more time for firewood, as i work from april til thanksgiving and get cutting around the second week of december. looking to get certified and get into bundles as we had a tornado nearby and the amount of basswood and aspen that was damaged was unreal. and that is why i would go to a splitter like this one with the box wedge.
They say hickory gets harder with age...
Also has more btu than oak....right next to locust
That grabs and binds wayyyy to much it seems like they’re to close together in my humble opinion. But yes the power is insane that’s one tough machine going through that big and tough of wood especially with how tight the pieces get mushed through seemingly anyways
Thanks for sharing.
👍 for wearing PPE so many people dont.
Without wanting to be that guy that tells you what to do...
Just watch your left hand while chainsawing try to keep your thumb under the handle it will really help you grip the saw if you get kickback.
Good job and keep the videos coming i love them
Thanks for the tip!
This video was recommended today. You have come a long way, Adam! Nice to see your early days as well ;-)
You might find your saw makes more chips and less dust if you carefully avoid cutting dirt.
Great work! Hickory is a pain to split. I hate it. Even on a splitter I have to work the sides before entering the middle on knotty stuff. The shorter the length the better off you are. Besides that's a fantastic smoking/cooking wood, it's better in smaller chunks. I prefer ash for fire wood because its everywhere in the midwest. When I see hickory like that in good condition I always think how beautiful the wood is, and a mill would produce such beautiful boards. But this has a purpose keeping your family warm so it definitely was used for something good. God bless and stay safe!
I think I’m actually going to save this for smoking wood this summer. I already have a couple recipes I wanna try. Ham, Pork, brisket
Hickory tree just saved my shed from Ida, about 8" across must have took the force of a giant oak the hickory is bent over the roof of my shed branches bent & didn't poke any holes in the roof its right on the roof. What a mess
I said it before Adam, thats one awesome splitter. I couldn't imagine splitting that by hand with a splitting maul. Wow.
Would that wood push through easier/cleaner if the log went with the grain of the timber through the splitter. We were taught to plane our wood work projects with the grain it cuts smoother. I know its only firewood just wondering the result.
The Husqvarna XP series chain saw would work great for you, there a beast of a saw.
Never seen hickory split before. Nice Video Adam!
Great video Adam. Why did you leave the rest of the tree behind? Did you make a few more trips back for the rest of the rounds?
Hey love the channel! Is there a reason you don’t own or got rid of the box wedge and went with the japa + axis?
Wow that box wedge is where it's at! 👍
Makes splitting wood child’s play haha
@@HometownAcres no doubt!
What is his company name..? You should mention him. All that money hes giving you.
next time park truck aside the wood pile so you dont have to walk at all, just stand near the split wood and load,,,,also, next time, build the house near the wood pile so you dont have to walk so far in the cold winter to get more wood
Very powerfull splitter! You can hear that the engine is not reving up when it needs more power 👍
No it didn’t struggle a bit. The only issue I had was the hickory not behaving nicely and turning sideways on me occasionally.
You really need a 30 inch bar saw like they use in Oregon and Washington .
I am glad to see he finally put a log return feature on the splitter that is a real back saver..... woodmizer hasa splitter that will split in both directions, it makes two pile either side of the operator and splits twice as fast because of that, but the log return on your splitter makes the Easton splitter double quick as normal. definitely saved this in my firewood playlist lol
I'll bet the springs on your truck were creaking with a load of that hickory on . The splitter is impressive. Thanks for the video
Yeah that hickory is really heavy. Especially for a mid size pickup like the Tacoma
Good work Adam. I would love to see how that splitter would handle the hard narly Aussie gums like grey box or ironbark. Mate I'll do a deal with you, I'll swap my MS462 for that splitter.
Haha Oh man I’d love to get my hands on an MS462
Hickory imho is the purttiest wood there is . there goes a couple kitchens up in smoke . that really hurts to watch .
That's tough wood. Your splitter handled it well.
Great job Adam, Eastonmade kick some butt.
Would have liked to see if the 12-way wedge could have handled it.
Yes you do, been tagging you in some sales in Facebook buddy
Yeah just need to save up a bit. Hard with the baby comin. Every dollar is going towards that right now
@@HometownAcres lol, and 4 wheelers
First!
What size motor is on that wood plitter?
It’s a Honda gx390
Nice log splitter, looks like fun.
Ironwood is tougher than hickory but hickory is very stringy and tough also those box wedge splitters are awesome consistent pieces and a very well designed way to split wood
Yeah we don’t have any ironwood in my area. Hickory is the toughest stuff around here
that would have made some nice slabs for coffee tables
Great job. Splitter did a great job.
Gotta find you a conveyer and a dump trailer someday... x3 production
Yeah a dump trailer would be awesome
Love the content bro...i want one of those splitters!
Call up Eastonmade wood splitters. Tell them Hometown acres sent you!
It handled it fine for the most part.
Did you get the rest of the tree. Those 3 logs were that much of a partial cord I wouldn't have thought. But I tell you what your spliter is brute strength man I could here that wood tearing. I've split hickory and elm here in Gaines Michigan and a 30ton if you get a logs with 3 or 4 branches itll fight ya really bad. But also I have a husqvarna and a stihl in my opion with both saws within 2 more cc in the husqvarna the stihl cuts better more torque. I have a husqvarna 562 and a stihl 362. I love the saws just use them sometimes different stuff. Wonderful video though
That’s good information to know. So between the Husqvarna 562 and the Stihl 362 you like the Stihl better?
@@HometownAcres there both great saws in oak and hickory the 362 stihl cuts better with a 25in bar. The 562 cuts best with a 20in bar. I use 562 for bucking branches and cutting anything around 22in I use the stihl more in situations when tree is bigger. But in the past I've had better luck with longevity with stihl. Both those saws are pro saws so there pricey I also have a stihl 391 it's the biggest non pro saw you can buy for stihl its 62cc or 64cc and works great with a 25in bar. I have this 562 husky I got it for a really good price and if you are a husky guy I'd go with it power to weight ratio is about as good as you can get I think the next step up from that the chainsaw is almost a grand.
@@HometownAcres but if it were me I'd go with the 362 though in the winter it starts easier and simpler maintenance I think
Bryan Blood I’m a Stihl guy but friends with Huskies are still friends.😁 My Farm grade MS311 can go through most anything in NC. I should have got a 392 (Farm grade) but was cheap. Nevertheless, the MS311 will be all I’ll ever need. Hickory trees around here are smooth barked and very wet between the bark and the tree. I think they’re Sand Hickory or Bitternut Hickory. When hit with a splitting axe or maul the bark will slide off the trunk in one piece and water splashes out. They split easily and aren’t stringy. It’s popular for smoking pork BBQ, a North Carolina tradition. Red oak can easily be 30” in diameter and splits easily as well. That’s the reason I have the Stihl. Oak is readily available and I get calls from friends when they see it.
@@delholford987 I have a 391 bought it in 2013 I have the other 2 saws because I have a bad elbow from a car wreck. I actually use a ms170 more than the other 3 I just buy guns chainsaws or just collect tools of any sort. We have shagbark hickory and shale bark hickory but Shag bark are beautiful the way the bark curls. I've been working on this oak tree since 2016 on getting the wood the canopy fell out of it and there a 40ft trunk that's I bet 45in across. And that would be a lot of wood but I'm trying to maybe even get it milled. To me a ms 290 is big enough but I cut trees for a living and sometimes need a 25in bar. But I'd like to see those hickory your refearing to. Up here in michigan we use less hickory and smoke with cherry apple peach wood. But if your in the mountains that's cool I lived in michigan my whole life but I always wish I lived in the Appalachian mountains area. Plus I think the women are better down where you are the women up here are less down to earth.
Awesome stuff! Just subscribed 👍🏼
Thanks! Welcome!
Im always amazed how far away people put wood from the house
I think you need a Stihl MS 500i ;)
An efi chainsaw would be pretty awesome
@@HometownAcres sure, but they cost quite a lot
Wow that thing is a MONSTER!!!!
That thing is dismantling all that wood!! Get it!!!
I am glad to see he finally put a log return feature on the splitter that is a real back saver..... woodmizer hasa splitter that will split in both directions, it makes two pile either side of the operator and splits twice as fast because of that, but the log return on your splitter makes the Easton splitter double quick as normal. definitely saved this in my firewood playlist lol
Bark on that hickory looks different from what we have in arkansas but I don't think I every seen one that big