[AT] OT - Wood chopping clip

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sat Mar 9 04:04:18 PST 2013


You're right about the elm Mike.
Elm makes nice shade and that's about it as far as I'm concerned.
Dutch Elm disease pretty well cleaned them out here so I don't much
have to worry with them.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 6:29 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Wood chopping clip

I wouldn't want to use it for some of the *&^%##!! elm I have to split
from time to time.

Mike M

On 3/8/2013 3:02 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> I suspect he built that because he is no longer able to swing an ax or 
> maul.
> Still I can see some uses for it.
>
> Most of the wood I split is given to me by a guy that is in the tree 
> service
> business.
> It's almost always oaks that is from someone's yard.
> Some of the blocks he brings me are 3' or more in diameter.
> A lot of the smaller stuff has knots in it.   Most of it would be too 
> heavy
> to lift onto
> that rig and if you could it would never split it.   I use a 12# maul and
> wish I had a bigger one.
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 2:46 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Wood chopping clip
>
> Looks like hard work, there's no mechanical advantage that
> even an axe brings plus he has to overcome the return spring.
> With the wood he's splitting, I reckon I could out perform him with a
> tomahawk. :-)
>
> Tom
>
> --- On Sat, 9/3/13, Mattias Kessén <davidbrown950 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.alternativ.nu/index.php?action=media;sa=item;id=7384
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>> www.rodjagard.n.nu
>
>
> Looks like hard work, there's no mechanical advantage that
> even an axe brings plus he has to overcome the return spring.
> With the wood he's splitting, I reckon I could out perform him with a
> tomahawk. :-)
>
> Tom
>
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