I love how that Heartwood naturally separated and keeps it's shape.

I truely miss splitting chord after chord on the farm as a teen. it was the best of times.

50+ years and I still love firewooding. It is clean, satisfying, productive work that keeps you in shape. As soon as I see snow on the mountains I know I have around two months to get the wood in. Dead standing fir so no need to season. I do my own wood and some for sale or trade and it really helps supplement my old age pension.

your splitter is pretty awesome have you ever thought of adding a horizontal cutting edge to cut the "splitting "time in half and getting 4 per stroke instead of 2

@ineedanap799

2 жыл бұрын

I had a similar thought but instead splitting the wood vertically using the weigh of the wood leaving the price on the floor for faster and more efficient splitting

Sometimes no words are needed. Such a beautiful video.

Any large fir that splits as good as this log did is beautiful wood to work with; the grain was straight with hardly any knots and had a lot of dried pitch embedded in some of it and that would make excellent kindling. Another positive was the bark was falling off when splitting, means the log had to be down at least a year or more and would be fully dry in a couple of months of summer weather, great video.

I just have to say, all the time and effort you're putting into the editing process is noticeable and very much appreciated. Your videos have become significantly better over time, as simple as it was, this one was a pleasure to watch.

@RaoulThomas007

8 жыл бұрын

+Paul Keating This video was really nicely put together and what a soundtrack!

@grant2410

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Keating hug

@NewGuyMedia-xe7bm

Жыл бұрын

2023... still excellent!

Wow! That's a huge tree! Good job.

I love work. I could watch people do it all day long! LOL

@BeeRich33

8 жыл бұрын

+BeachBow I bet even at the slowest pace, that stuff could get anybody into shape.

@dougankrum3328

8 жыл бұрын

+BeachBow ...Yeah, I'm 68 and still do this stuff....I like to say to the 'tough' guys..."Let's go split some wood for a day or too"....maybe even fall a couple 30" trees with an axe....

@lewiemcneely9143

8 жыл бұрын

+BeachBow Yeah, I can lay down and sleep next to it and it don't bother me one bit!

@lewiemcneely9143

8 жыл бұрын

+BeeRich33 Or in the E.R.

@spanishcastlesinspace2899

6 жыл бұрын

are you the foreman?

great vid and reminds me of when I split wood with my dad when we first moved to Oregon in 1977.. I was around 14 years old.. We split up a huge downed tree that had to be bucked with a 20 something inch bar from both sides.. We used a Stihl chainsaw too! Great saws for sure! But, we didn't have the powered log splitter! That was ME! ha, ha! But, it got me in great shape for Varsity Football.

Nice having such straight wood. Here (CT) we have a ton of oak and maple, even with our best splitter (home made, beast with a log lift, and it has a powerful Honda for hydro) we still have some we can't split. Not to mention those explosive pops when it suddenly splits, I've had some that really fly.

wow really liking the cinematography you are doing! looking great!

I welded axe heads each side of my wood splitter knife so I can split 4 wedges per push. Works a treat and the ram has more than enough power (50ton) to split anything I can lift onto the splitter. I can't think why I would want to split less wood and slower.

I just chopped up my first big tree. 18” pine that fell in the recent storms in the south. Can’t wait to split it and get some big firewood for outside.

cool editing effects on the wood splitting

i love working with soft wood! makes it seem like fun, more so than WORK! Nice life you have there.

Thanks again for using my music! Right at the beginning too, I readily appreciate it!

@manatarms47

8 жыл бұрын

*really

@wranglerstar

8 жыл бұрын

+Kyle Hughes Thank you Kyle. I love your music,

just watched 4 old vids of yours, nothing but trees and your wonderful family. but this one here brings back memoirs from when i lived on Rainier, I logged part time. I noticed you changed your gloves ;-) and you are still using the same tools today. I have said it before and I'm sure I will keep saying it trill I believe otherwise - You are blessed... Lucky and blessed.

i can't express how much i love your videos Cody, really, the music, the angles, every thing makes them beautiful and so enjoying to watch. please keep up !

Great video! Cutting firewood is great reflection time for me. Something I have always loved doing year after year! I enjoyed seeing how you worked like a well oiled machine, you're using a wide assortment of tools but everything flowed smoothly. Thank you for sharing the video

I love to split and stack wood. It's a nice change from sitting in front of a computer all day.

These videos have suddenly become super high quality. Looks like thousands of dollars of production value is put into them. Awesome.

Tremendous editing and use of playback speed changes. I'll watch this one several times for the sheer pleasure of it!!

That was incredible to watch. Thanks for sharing

I really enjoy how your visual storytelling has progressed over time I've been watching your channel. No words but every shot a small narrative.

The production and editing quality is just getting better and better. GREAT STUFF!

I love the video. Reminds me of cutting wood for a neighbor. One of those summer jobs mom would talk us boys into. Didn't like it at first, but there was a real sense of accomplishment by the time we were done. Thanks for the reminder.

I really enjoyed watching this video. A lot of skill went into the editing and the handling of the tools and doing the work it shows throughout the video. Great job keep them coming

Your tree has a defect called SHAKE RING. It means, in all likelihood, that the wind stressed this tree physically at one time. The growth rings separated in a linear pattern, and it was easier for the wind to move that tree afterward. Sometimes a disease becomes associated with the separated rings, which I would assume are responsible for that white matter you explored.

@wranglerstar

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Dougfir Thanks for the info

@xXcajunblazeXx

8 жыл бұрын

I was just about to ask why there was that linear ring separation haha. Thanks for pre answering it

Watching this was just what I needed during a break from a stressful day in the office!

I don't think I have ever seen heartwood separate so synergically perfect. I noticed that others have commented on your editing and suggest you are a self-taught amateur. Well your videos are excellent and you taught yourself well; very enjoyable and soothing to watch.

Really enjoyed seeing you seamlessly access your hatchet and plastic wedges in what I assume to be your own custom-made aluminum(?) holsters, and the wedge spring plate keeper. Brilliant, incredibly practical and efficient. A man who considers his work carefully. Well done, sir!

@Gideon_Judges6

Жыл бұрын

Those look like the ones made by Grizzly Peak

I learned a lot from this video with no words needed to be said!

I miss seeing wood like that. Moved away from Portland Oregon in 2006 to Utah and miss the forests and rain

These kind of video's is where you shine. Thanks Cody

I have timber this size (and bigger) on my place.. a few years ago the counry took down two danger trees along my highway and they were a total of more than 6 cords of wood which I split with a few buddies who did the splitting and loading while I bucked the logs with my 36 inch 660 Stihl saw. Softwood is a piece of cake. Try Big Leaf Maple rounds for a real challenge

i believe this is the first youtube video i seen where no words are spoken... and yet i find it enjoyable.

I got the same peavey with a foot that mounts to the bottom, which turns it into a log jack, very nice to lift large trees of the ground for bucking.

Oh, I love the second song!! (mid-video) I halfway expected a voice like Peter Yarrow's to start singing. :-)

The man works smart. He knows his tools and materials and doesn't try to 'over-power' everything.

As a Southern Boy, I can assure you - Duct Tape is always proper!

Nice tecniques. I like the different action sequences using the axeroon. That tool sure turned out spectacular! Very good video! Thanks!

Your vids... My new Addiction... Appreciate all you are sharing. Thank you!!

idk why but I always come back and re-watch this one

This was, strangely beautiful.

Cody.... your storytelling videos are getting so great. Really starting to look like documentaries... keep up the great work.

The quality of the video production has really increased of late, and it has not gone unnoticed! Great job in both the filming and the editing. Thanks for another great video, makes me miss my days growing up on the farm. Nothing like an honest day's work to satisfy the soul...

The one thing I love to do is split wood. I could do it all day long as long as the chunks held out. I used to use ah willow round as a chopping block as it is very hard to split the willow and you can really pound on it a lot. I didn't have a lot of splitting tools but I did have wedges, maul and axe.My favorite woods to split is lodge pole, red/white oak and maple. This was a real good video I played it 3 times for the music and the other sounds.Thank You.

Good video. I like the editing you did.

Awesome vid. Ive become too lazy using a skid steer with forks and home made splitter. Forks move the logs and rounds, split the big ones to manageable size with loader splitter, split the break downs with the gas splitter. Hyper efficient, especially with two people but awesome to see a man that knows his job work. Thanks for taking the time to make it.

I can really tell when your heart is in it Cody... this was one of the best videos in a while (not to say any are bad, not at all)

Cody I enjoy all the videos. but the videos ones like this one where a story is told without words are a favorite.

I love these firewood videos! Thanks!

Wow this is one of those videos I didn't want to end. thank you wranglerstar.

Cody, you can cut the time to split that wood down almost in half by making a 4 way splitting wedge. I have used one and it works great. You make a piece out of 1/4" plate that will slide down over top of the wedge of your splitter and then weld on wedges at the proper height that stick out sideways. This way it is easily slid on or removed as needed and splits pieces in four in one shot! Works especially well with straight grained wood like that. Thanks for video

I always liked this video. It has a therapeutic effect. I wish all my firewood was as straight and cooperative.

this is a fir log with a pitch seam, and tight grain, which usually means it will be easy to split, no need for a wedge, or maul, and can be split with a double bit axe. having worked in the brush for a number of years as well a cut my share of firewood, i am somewhat entertained by your costume for firewood cutting and splitting, the standing on cut rounds while you split another is award winning drama.

A joy to watch as always! Thank you kindly sir.

I like the calm atmosphere in your videoes.

The start of my favorite season of the year. Thanks Cody!

your editing in the splitting sequence had me chuckling.. Hahaha! Great job!

Why is a video of a guy preparing firewood for 10 minutes so mesmerizing!? The soundtrack, the photography? can almost feel the cool fall day and smell the wood....Nice Job Cody!

Cody, the red wedge you use in the beginning of this video is the basic shape of my favourite maul head.

Stacking\splitting firewood is one of my favorite and least favorite things to do It's nice if you take your time with it, but it sucks if you need to rush.

very cool to see the perfectly round core just fall away from the rest of the wood. Another great video.

Great video! trying to buy my own property at the moment and this just looks like an awesome way to live.

the scene where you cut out the wind up for the swings and showed only the impact immediately made me think of howtobasic, that's hilarious

This was such an enjoyable video Cody! Appreciate all the effort you put into making these for us. Loved the Duct tape, I laughed harder than I probably should have, excellent humor.

That sweet little custom hookaroon is awesome. If you've never worked with one, it's totally worth getting a new tool. Even if its just a cheap $30 one from the home center. But that little darling he's using is something special.

My late father-in-law welded extra vanes to his hydraulic splitter. It cut the log into six wedges and was a time saver.

Great music and video! Music makes the splitting go so much faster! :)

That was interesting to watch. I've never seen a log split and leave the center core like that. Love all you do.

@wranglerstar

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Glenn

Love the music. Your vids are calming and relaxing, that's why I watch. Thanks for the content.. another thumbs up from me!

Always a treat watching your productions. The best youtube I watch. Good stuff!

I could quite happily watch this job for hours

great video! loved the editing.

Love the editing, Cody. Top notch!!!!

After 36 years of hand splitting Aussie hardwoods and at 64years of age I'm sure envious of that hydraulic splitter you have. My back is basically "stuffed" having had a double laminectomy and a possible fusion of the L3, L4 and L5 vertebrae. What type of lovely tree is that you are splitting? I enjoy your informative videos enormously Cody. Thanks

@Semibiased

7 жыл бұрын

Douglas fir and alder are my favorite types of wood to split. You don't have to let the wood season at all. It's ready to split the moment you cut it down.

This video just reminded me to make myself a pickaroon for grabbing logs off of the ground to place on the splitter...looks like a real back saver...we'll see.

Hello , My first time comment . You have some very informative videos . I'm from Indiana So we use an outdoor boiler system to feed the house and shop. for my best friend who is an excavator. He brings logs home and a backhoe with a clam shell bucket to grab them for bucking. We use Jonsered 2171 and 2172 saws for all cutting . 28 ton vertical splitter to spit are hardwood to 14" diameter pieces for burning. Please keep up your great videos ! Steve

I love these you're videos something about them makes me relax thank you for taking the time to make these

I have rocked my saw before doing it this way. Best way i have learned is to cut about 3/4 in to it or little more and rotate the log until both the top and bottom cuts are showing and then take the saw and cut in an upward motion from the bottom cut going up. Will prevent you from rocking it or dull the chain from the dirt

@mennoh6847

7 жыл бұрын

dkhill27 i dont think your going to roll an full grown tree in its side that easy

First time a KZread video background music worked with the footage. Fun to watch.

You make it look so effortless.

Great video. Truly fascinating.

Bucking and Splitting is a perfect way to spend a fall day.....it brings back great memories of time with my dad.

I need a pickaroon as soon as possible! I think I will opt out of using it with the splitter though.

Man, I wish the big logs I worked on today would split that easy. I about gave myself an aneurysm, wailing on them this afternoon. Gnarly midwest hardwoods with crotch wood grain is super frustrating. Those big straight softwood rounds almost look fun to split by comparison. They looked like they were almost pre-split when he opened up the initial bucked log.

To me splitting wood is peaceful and once you're finished for the day you can look back and see all the progress made and be proud of the work done. Always enjoy your videos. Thank you God bless you and yours.

Found this relaxing to watch.. Thanks for sharing

That is a pretty big log. Your in great shape Cody. I would be worn out soon doing all that heavy work. You remind me of my dad he loved to work like that. Just loved to cut wood and work on his farm. I use to help but Im not a great worker because of my bad arm but I did the best I could and I loved to be with my dad and help.

Amazing how easily wood slits when hit with the grain as opposed to how difficult it is to initially chop when going against it.

This was awesome!!! Looks like a lot of fun too

omg when the bark comes off its so satisfying lol

Love your pickaroon. I have a 36'' I got in Grand Rapids Minnesota but mine doesn't have the Axeblade. That being said I can't imagine life without one.

The tool belt principle demonstrated in this video. Wether your cutting firewood doing carpentry work, welding or really any type of work that requires multiple tools a toolbelt makes you way more efficient.

Good style. I really enjoyed it

I wonder if you could build a feed ramp from the out feed table on your log splitter into the bed of your truck. Another great video thanks

That was an awesome video..editing everything!

Now that's understanding your work and product... awesome