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MOMule

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Where can a person buy a good splitting wedge these days? By good I mean one that won"t flatten and splinter sending shrapnel flying everywhere.
 
why not use a good heavy splitting maul instead,beats the trouble with any wedge i found
 
Use a big splitting maul or I usually just make a few wooden wedges. They'll last a lot longer than you'd expect if you don't insist on whomping the crap out of them. You'll be surprised at what you can split with them.
 
I spent a lot of my youth splitting 30 inch & bigger elm wood, 27 inches long, to fit through a 9 by 13 inch door.

You haven't split wood until you have 4 wedges stuck in the block & hope the 5th & last wedge busts something loose or you got nothing to go on.

A splitting maul? Only good for the back end, to hit the wedges deeper..... The pointed side just makes the wood chuckle. ;)

--->Paul
 
Well, Paul I have spilt a lot of elm but not nearly as SMALL 30 inch. Used a singel bit ax. Just let the frost get to it, the colder the better.I was living in north east Iowa when the dutch elm dias. went through.Most towns hired contractors to take thoes old grand trees down.
 
Get a wood grenade at Tractor supply. I split all last winter with mine. Only used a hand sledge with it, because I messed up my shoulder and I was still able to split some real whoppers!
 
i carry 3 in my service truck all the time but i only use them for moving pillow block bearings and gearbox removel . i retired them from wood when i bought a splitting maul and later built my own hyd. splitter RICK
 

Take a small hickory log about 6-8 inches in diameter. Leave about 8-10 inches at the big eng full diameter, trim the rest of it into a handle. Make saw cuts a foot or so apart all the way around the handle part to make trimming easier. Use the resulting mall to hit the steel wedge with. It won't batter up the wedge.

KEH
 
I only use a maul for splitting smaller pieces of wood already cut to fireplace length. Works just fine.
 
If mine gets a burr on it I torch or grind it off before it grows bigger. Like any thing else they only last so long before they need replacing.
 
Got mine at Blains Farm & Fleet at Ottawa ILL a long time ago.Used them a lot when we lived in ILL.Now! One is lost and the other one is used to prop my Shop door open when wanted.JC
 
Well it seems to boil down to the size and kind of firewood one needs to split.
I use a 10 lb maul to split 20 to 24" long spruce,jackpine,tamarack and white poplar up to 24" butts with no problem. if big knots in it,I cut them in shorter lenghts.
It splits the easyest when frozen.

I have no experience with oak and elm and such cause it dont grow where i live.
 
the one I used worked great when you did get it in you could use a sledge to finish it through. then it would split the rest easily
 
you ever wonder why the spitting maul has a hammer face on one side? To hit a WEDGE! There are sometimes that you need them both.
 
I like the turnip-shape one from ACE hardware.
2 years ago I shrapnelled my left forearm twice the same winter from 2 different wedges. Neither one had peeled back much. I've still got the iron from one episode in the arm.
 
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