Maybe for firewood, but I split a lot of wood for steam bending. If I'm trying to open up a split in a 6' long log, I need a bagful of wedges.
Good advice, and yet another reason to use a splitting axe rather than a felling axe.
Oh indeed but the OP wanted to make a log splitter.
Naah. What set of DIY tools is complete without a tractor? /JCB/crane/shuttle transporter/...
As the proud owner of a tractor, I have to agree. I can even get a PTO cement mixer as well as circular saws, generators etc.
OK we tend to make a distinction and call the latter cleaving or riving, for this hammer and wedge or beetle and fro are more appropriate. The axe is often used to trim fibers and finish the split.
AJH
Splitting, by definition, is dividing something into two.
Mary
Your point being?
AJH
Even if we are referring to hairs.
Sorry Mary, but you started the pedant sub-thread!
My dictionary has "breaking/dividing something into two *two or more parts*" (including hairs!)
/nopedant
Bob Mannix
It's wrong.
More than two parts and it's dividing.
Mary
Which dictionary? And is that an exact quote?
It's right when splitting is dividing something between people, e.g. splitting the proceeds. But splitting logs is different.
What about less than two...
When my trousers split its rarely into two distinct parts!
Alex.
Had these things recommended to be by a tree surgeon but had not got around to tracking a supplier down ...
Cheers,
Alex.
Some cheapo one (the only one to hand). No it was a small part of the definition.
Only by convention yes. If one were to build a hydraulic log splitter with a tricorn blade you, presumably, would refuse to call the output split logs even though they were indistinguishable from other split logs?
Bob Mannix
Only by convention? What else is there?
You're welcome to presume what you like, but we were actually talking of the verb "split", which is not the same as the adjective "split".
And ISTM quite likely that your device viewed in slow motion would separate into two twice rather than into three once.
Oh poo! I would say, while in action, it was splitting them. Only an inveterate hair splitter would say otherwise
Nah! There would be four pieces in that case :o)
Times up, must split.
Bob Mannix
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