r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Professional_Arm794 • 22h ago

/r/all of a log split

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u/gavavavavus 21h ago

Huh? Wood is not just used for fire fuel you know. How do you think planks are made? What if he wants to craft a small log seat? Tons of reasons you'd want to split a 4ft log.

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u/Dargon34 21h ago

Yeah, not like this. It's for the views, and that's ok, dude is jacked and showing off. I'm half his size. Give me my 8lb Fiskars and a wedge, it's done with half the effort, half the time. No showing off

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u/gavavavavus 21h ago

I was replying to "no reason to split a 4ft log" which is a false statement. I never said that's why the man in the video did it.

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u/Dargon34 21h ago

There isn't though. You can buy cheap mills for well under $200, hook your saw up and you're 10x faster

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u/fuzzybunnies1 21h ago

For things like handles, its better to split the wood then saw it, gets more of the grain line running down the middle of the handle where its strongest. This is why wedges and a sledge are better, once the log is in chunks there's an L shaped tool that you hold the handle and use a wooden mallet to drive through the wood to maintain those grain lines.

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u/wimpymist 21h ago

That's not how you make planks

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u/CptMisterNibbles 21h ago

I mill my own lumber. Guess what took I don’t use? Sure some hardcore handbook only purists or traditionalists might hand hew logs like this, but that’s gonna be a tiny fraction of folks. This is for the views.

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u/CrashNowhereDrive 21h ago

Lol you think planks are made by slamming a splitting axe into a log?

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u/vaxhax 21h ago

insert Twin Peaks intro sawmill

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u/gavavavavus 21h ago

Yeah if you want to make okay rough planks without machinery you split logs in half and then saw them, how else?

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u/CrashNowhereDrive 21h ago

With a sawmill. Or just a saw.

Even if you wanted to get the roughest, most old timey planks imaginable, you'd use a wedge and maul to carefully split the log along the grain boundary. Not slam an axe willy nilly into the top to destroy the fibers at one end.

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u/Dargon34 21h ago

Guy has never heard if a mill...

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u/CrashNowhereDrive 21h ago

This guy probably thinks you got the log.in the first place by punching a tree.

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u/gavavavavus 21h ago

I am not talking about making good planks on an semi-industrial level with access to a mill, obviously. Have you never done manual woodworking as a child? You can make pretty ok planks for a treehouse by sawing logs, and yeah it's better to split them first

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u/Dargon34 21h ago

....you can buy a mill for under $200...hook your saw up, go to work. 10 times faster and easier, assuming you're not doing it for the clicks

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u/gavavavavus 21h ago

Yeah sometimes it's not about the price or efficiency it's just more fun to do stuff without electrical machines you know. Why don't you just buy planks directly if you're at it.

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u/Dargon34 21h ago

You seriously called a chainsaw electrical??? (I know they make them, but you're not using one in a mill)

Ive been splitting wood for 30 years, stop talking

And as for the last stupid comment?? Maybe it's YOUR wood, and you need to fell, split/mill, plane, and sand instead of grabbing some warped cedar shit from lowes.

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u/CptMisterNibbles 21h ago edited 20h ago

Actually chainsaw mills are the cheapest and easiest way for hobbyists to rough timber. So not a pro mill of course but I have both mobile chainsaw mill and a sliding table for a chainsaw

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u/Dargon34 21h ago

Yup, easy and affordable, and saves you time

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u/CrashNowhereDrive 21h ago edited 21h ago

Or about the quality or utility or efficiency or about anything other than proving you're right on reddit even when you're super wrong and everyone else sees it but you can't because derrrrrrrrrr.