A friend of my wife called last week saying he was taking down a tree and asked if I would be interested in the wood. D'uh I said where and when. I stopped by to have a look.
I saw a slight twist
so I knew it was a good idea to rent a log splitter, glad I did. Some parts of the trunk were a bear even with a hydrolytic splitter. Friday truck is full more splitting and quite a pile to go yet.
As the experts taught me on here I split vertically
. I think it is walnut but not sure. No leaves.
Three full loads, one Friday and two today and still have a small load left. I didn't think it looked that big but sure got more than I expected. I have a lot to split as and stack yet, but did all the large twisted stuff I knew I couldn't split by hand.
![My biggest scrounge so far. My biggest scrounge so far.](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/81/81528-63aa2c4e2d1a13e98921c62c98f07823.jpg)
![My biggest scrounge so far. My biggest scrounge so far.](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/81/81529-7802e2e9aa7ed688b1081bad3facfc72.jpg)
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![My biggest scrounge so far. My biggest scrounge so far.](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/81/81536-1778531c74e80f0efd7c90dc7e2cf6fe.jpg)
Three full loads, one Friday and two today and still have a small load left. I didn't think it looked that big but sure got more than I expected. I have a lot to split as and stack yet, but did all the large twisted stuff I knew I couldn't split by hand.