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HAHA! I'm not kidding, really. I was keeping up with him and his MS290 with full chisel Stihl chain (and he is younger than I am). I wasn't splitting it too small, because he has an outside boiler and likes to put bigger pieces in it, but I was easily quartering 12 - 18 inch diameter black oak rounds in the time it took him to cut the next one off. If it was Elm.....forget it, I would not have been helping him at all! Been doing it a long time and I really enjoy splitting, so that makes it easier for me.