Splitting firewood

[TheOfficialBren]

My great uncle Amos said you get warm 7 times dealing with firewood:
1) cutting the tree down
2) cutting it into blocks
3) splitting it
4) loading it into the truck
5) unloading it
6) carrying it into the house
7) burning it

He thought about lots of stuff, my great uncle Amos.

Ha! There's a lot of truth to that!

[Jake_S]

Jake: What part of NE Georgia? I have a sister in law and a brother in law who live in the Tiger/Clayton area. My Pop was from the Blue Ridge and Ellijay area in north central GA.

"split the most pieces with a single blow"?! I can split one piece with six blows, if only four of them miss.

John

I am from Winder. It is/was a small town about 20 miles west of Athens. Not quite the foothills and mountains og Clayton and Elijay though. I did spend at least one weekend a month camping in Raburn county from the age of 10 to 18 or so.

Jake

[Jake_S]

There is something more satisfying about splitting wood with an axe or a sledge'n'wedge than with a machine. It harkens back to the pastoral romance of yore.

I agree. I love the smell of freshly split oak and maple, plus the sound of the sledge hitting a steel wedge is very relaxing.

Jake

[Braw Cathairneach]

Sorry if I veered off course with this topic but all'ya'all triggered memories of days gone by:
All’ya’all write knowingly of ‘splitting’ wood. Journalist’s reference to politicians ‘chopping’ wood always tends to give me pause, never sounds quite right. Splitting wood for me was primarily a winter occupation with dog team and sled. Wasn’t much point in splitting wood during the summer, as summers only seemed to last two days.