First time this ever happened!

[begreen]

I had that happen when trying to break up a 48" round of green doug fir. Used every wedge and they were getting lost in the wood. What to do? I went back and got another mega wedge. Got some help to flip the round and attacked it from the other side in the same location. It finally gave way. After that I let the rest of the rounds dry out more for a few months, then hired a couple eager HS football team jocks that were friends with my son. They wailed on those rounds like they were mortal enemies. Got the job done in a good day of splitting.

 

[fibels]

Keep pounding the wedges into the split. It'll eventually go.

I agree.Keep pounding those wedges.That thing is about to split.Also place it on a chopping block then drive those wedges.

 

[volunbeer]

Done that a time or two myself. Like everyone said - pound away and eventually brute force and ibuprofen will win. I have given up splitting big rounds until it gets real cold here - like single digit cold. Others have said it is easy to split then and I am going to give it a try this winter. I have about 35 big rounds of fir and ponderosa pine waiting.

 

[fibels]

Done that a time or two myself. Like everyone said - pound away and eventually brute force and ibuprofen will win. I have given up splitting big rounds until it gets real cold here - like single digit cold. Others have said it is easy to split then and I am going to give it a try this winter. I have about 35 big rounds of fir and ponderosa pine waiting.

I have a cord of elm to split and I'm waiting for the real cold to split them.They do split easier when it's frigid.

 

[Dobish]

I have a cord of elm to split and I'm waiting for the real cold to split them.They do split easier when it's frigid.

they also split easier with a 22 ton splitter

 

[billb3]

Sometimes I'll slice those into pancake rounds three or four inches thick . Leave on top of the stacks . Then split them into 4 in a year or whatever size will fit in the stove. I had to try to split a few to recognize when to cut pancakes at the tree. Splits are nice but pancakes burn too.
Not worth straining the hydraulics on either.

 

[sen166]

Since I do not have a splitter, I usually take a chainsaw to bad boys like those and cut them apart; i.e. "noodle" them.