not sticking your hand in a underwater hole for fish

cutting with the grain of the wood
bar tip up or down about 1 to 1-1/2 inches slowly rocking back and forth so that you keep pulling the long noodles

go till nearly at the ground and hit it with a maul or roll it over and finish the cut

no extra tools or fatigue and lets you get it loaded in the truck without busting your gut.

many videos out there on it that are wrong where they go cross grain or have a steep bar angle and are pulling chip not curls
when you hit a knot or a cross grain at a Y you will get chip but most of it should be curls aka noodles

Nice! Never see it before

Nice

I had one tree so big I had to make 1/4s to move them at all and I split those into 1/3s with the splitter to be able to make them reasonable to work with hauling them out.

it goes fairly fast a little faster than the cross cut , just don't let the sprocket cover get plugged so sometimes you have to stop for a second kick the pile out and go again

. If you do very much of this (ripping) you will find lots of uses for this material, such as: mulch for the garden, weed barrier around trees, bedding for pet rabbits (don't use black walnut), fire starter in the wood stove or campfire, or, if it is dry, packing material for shipping fragile material. And if the rounds you have cut are large, they are now easier to lift. Years ago we used to call it excelsior.

Zookeeper

I still split by hand so any goonies get broke down this way.

Years ago (2003) before I had better equipment I ripped slabs out of walnut blocks this way. I recently used some of them to build a knife block for the kitchen. I sent a piece of one of them them to Gulo to be used as scales on the knives he built me.

goonies , I like it , I get a LOT of goonies I just never thought to call them that

knarly rounds was my term , but I like goonies I am borrowing that

gooney


or goon·y
[ goo-nee ]


Phonetic (Standard)
IPA
adjective
, goon·i·er, goon·i·est.
Slang. stupid, foolish, or awkward:
a gooney smile on his face.

Informal. thuggish; brutal.

brutally stupid and awkward sums up those rounds well.

LOL!

they make chains for this,,,,,,,,but why????

Harvesting fuel for the winter, i look the best, easiest wood

that would defeat the purpose of keeping it simple

Ripping is typical from one end of a log to the other , this is more like planing a narrow slot down the side, but all the way through
taking big long curls like a plane does

not needing any other gear with so that when you load up to go home all you need is to find a place to settle the 2 saws and gas and oil can into for the ride home

So do I. I'll take 5-7 inch rounds all day long if I can get them. No splitting except for some kindling. The older I get, the more goonies get left lay in the woods.

But when my landscape sub-contractor drops a load of wood off I don't have much say and I ain't looking a gift horse in the mouth.

Last chains I purchased was out of Sweden......
Something about them people overseas is interning.......

In India,,,, most take their HVAC system with them if they move
1/16 for a new one then our cost.
Compact everything to fit in small spaces
Dang sucks to be over 6 ft

for easy I like the ones I can back right up and load the best
this was Sunday , I got the second load last night wife came with , she was knitting in the cab I would hollar and point signals and she would start up and back up a few more feet
filled the truck and hardly moved a round farther than 4-5 feet
I am about to where I was standing when I took this pic. I have another top about 30 feet farther in a dead tree next to where I am standing , just keep backing right into the load and driving out it is a curvy path but doable to not have to cut anything good out of the way.
standing dead , root rot and wind storms keep leaving me enough to cut for heat every year.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww,,,, to be young and strong like bull again

Coonman???

need a ring or stupid?

I guess I'm stupid, as I couldn't make sense out of that word salad; and I don't need a ring (whatever that means).

a de-coder ring like the kid from a Christmas story so you can find out after a week of radio shows to drink your Ovaltine.

First step in 12

Collect the noodles in a corn/dogfood bag, makes great fire starter.