[Homestead] Hand tools-for firewood

Franklin W. Davis knarfme at comcast.net
Tue Nov 20 13:03:45 EST 2007


  Hi Rob...ayup... I split wood by hand for a good many years...and then ran into a physical problem. A couple of years ago I cut down a huge red oak...about five feet through the trunk at chest high...in order to make the pieces small enough to lift into my truck I had to split them with sledge hammer and wedges. The jarring caused part of the rear of my right eye to come loose...giving me some big floaters...which I have to this day. Eye Dr. told me to sell my sledge hammer and other splitting equipment unless I wanted to have a more serious sight problem...so I quit splitting by hand. Bought a tractor with my son...for lifting the hvy stuff...and also a splitter. Best move I ever made...wished I had done it yrs ago...:-) Franklin


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