I'm pretty sure you did a video about splitting wood before using your Fisker's maul. They do make nice tools, expensive but they should last for years. I forget the title of that video.

Reading between the lines, if you've split 10 cords or better, your saw is sharp and cutting good. And you've swung that maul a bunch of times.

The couple logs that you showed in the video, with your hand for comparison, they do look to be easy splitting. Good grain and all.

The maple blocks that I mentioned above were the type where you can swing a maul over your head, and come down hard, and it'll bounce off. You can look at the grain in some blocks of wood, and just know for sure, it's going to be hateful.

Well I got'r done. Should be good for a couple of years. Hardest part was picking up all the split pieces to stack them. I grabbed two pieces at a time, went into the shed to stack them, and when I came back out, the pile grew by two pieces. That pile never went down, at least for a while. Geez, the 'magic pile'!! (or do you think I was running out of steam?) Anyway that 30 ton ramrod sure did the trick. And I had fun for an hour and a half!

Looks really good. Stacking is a lot of bending but it is also satisfying to see the stack pile grow.

Bet those last twp pieces were nice!

Yea, was only about half done when I snapped that pic. Here's what the final pile looked. Doesn't look like much from this angle, but took many 'bend-overs' to get that pile stacked straight up.

It looks very nice. The pile in the last picture I'd guess to be a week or 10 days supply for the camp? Figure 2 arm-loads per day. At 2 blocks per trip, that was a lot of bending.

The other morning we had a good frost, ice in the dog's water bucket and all. Our spring weather is about like this every year. You never know how to dress.

The other day I saw a pickup truck pulling a trailer. He had his riding lawn mower up in the front of the trailer, and a stack of firewood strapped down on the back. Ready for all seasons.

Moe and I went shopping the other morning, the place we went to is like an indoor flea market, most of it is indoor. I told a couple friends where we were going and asked them if they needed anything. My buddy Steve asked me to get him an ax. Sometimes they sell handmade handles, but they didn't have any this trip.

I found him an ax, made in China for $17. It has some kind of plastic type handle. I'll tell you, it had a sorry excuse for an "edge". I wasn't going to give it to Steve like that, so I spent 15 or 20 minutes on the grindstone. I've got it pretty well roughed out now, but still needs another turn on the grindstone.

I figured while I had the grinder going, I'd touch up my Craftsman single bit. I've had that thing for right at 40 years, it's a handy tool. There is night and day difference between my Craftsman and the new one from China. But I'll spend another 20 minutes on the thing and then give it to Steve.

If you look at the second last pic, the one peeking into the wood shed, the stack on the right came from the pile in the last pic. The stack is three feet high and twelve feet long. Yea, that was a lot of bending. I slept real good that night!

I have mine all split now. Stacking is next but we still have snow and ice where I want to stack.

On my channel I just posted a video showing how to stack wood in a bee hive form. It looks good and works well.

I've watched the video, that is a nice looking stack of wood. Each stick of wood has been handled, a lot of times!

Talking about that ugly tarp, you could tuck the corners under, and make it somewhat round. Make it look more like an acorn cap. I'll tell you these thin plastic tarps, I don't think they will turn water for a year. Out in the sun, they don't last long.

One thing I was thinking about, if you'd talk to the local carpet store, that sells vinyl flooring. There is a good chance, they might be able to set you up with a piece of used flooring. They'd probably give it to you for hauling it off. Something like that would last for years.

My families never did have a building just for firewood. They always had a pile, once it was taken to the house, then it was stacked.

I'll try to explain how things worked at Mom's homeplace. Mom was the youngest of eleven kids in her family. So, it was a big family to start with and getting in the winter's supply of firewood was a big deal too.

But we'd all gang up and get to work. But the logs were skidded to just above the house. They were blocked up and split. With lots of man power on hand, and a bunch of kid power too. The house has a screened in porch that goes across one end and wraps around the corner. It's in an L shape.

So, while the uncles and bigger boys were sawing and splitting, us younger boys would carry it to the porch and stack. You figure, 3 or 4 or maybe 5 young boys, we could move a lot of wood per hour. I'd never really thought about this before, my sister confirmed that I am the youngest Grandkid. There are Great-Grandkids older than me.

While we were working on the wood, Mom and the rest of the girls would be cooking. You know, the more that I think about this, that is probably the same day that we'd butcher 4 or 5 big chickens.

Figure, there were a lot of folks there to feed. Chicken dumplings? Back at the time, nobody ever took pictures.

Figured this would be the right thread to post this on. Wow, we're getting a good dose of wildfire smoke from all them Canada fires. Geez, it looks like the whole city is out grilling! Air quality warnings are out so don't see much in the way of grass cutting today.

Frank.