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Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 9/21/2011, 1:35 am
In Response To: Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video (Etiennemuller Muller Ireland)

: Not my idea. It's all over the web. Low profile tyres work best.
: Smaller ones for narrower logs. Also with very small logs one
: can stack four or five together in the tyre so that they support
: each other.

: The best tyres are tyres from rally cars. They are nice and firm
: across the tread as well as on the side wall.

: Et

Btw, if you wait till the outside temps stay below freezing, the water in the wood freezes and the wood, even that with gnarly grain, splits much easier.

I've split a whole bunch of wood over the years, prefer my double bladed axe for it, I know most use a much different tool, the axe is lighter and faster, for me.

Bill H.

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Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/20/2011, 3:39 am
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scottbaxter -- 9/20/2011, 8:18 am
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StephenHJ -- 9/20/2011, 1:09 pm
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Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/20/2011, 2:41 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2011, 1:35 am
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Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/21/2011, 2:32 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/22/2011, 2:04 am
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Will N to go -- 9/29/2011, 3:00 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/3/2011, 2:01 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2011, 1:32 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 9/21/2011, 7:00 pm
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Will N to go -- 9/21/2011, 9:42 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 9/21/2011, 9:49 pm
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Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/22/2011, 4:01 am
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Mike Savage -- 9/22/2011, 2:56 pm
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Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/22/2011, 3:57 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/22/2011, 1:11 pm
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Nick Riccardi -- 9/22/2011, 2:28 pm
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John VanBuren -- 9/23/2011, 7:28 am
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Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/23/2011, 2:03 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/23/2011, 3:52 pm