Eastonmade Ultra splitting Walnut with 4 way wedge

In this video I split smaller Walnut rounds with the Eastonmade Ultra and the 4 way wedge. Sorry for the shaky camera at the beginning. Enjoy!

[@JoesFirewoodVideos]

98% of the wood that I split with my Ultra I use the single wedge because I like to control the size and shape of the pieces. I only break out the 4-way when most of the rounds that I need to split are 8”-12” in diameter.

[@DirtRoadLanding]

Plus, the 4, 6 way and up wedges produce way too much garbage (mulch) 🇺🇸🪵🪓♥️🪓🪵🪵🪵

[@normanrogers826]

This guy has the cleanest yard of any wood hound!

[@jamessanders4310]

Is walnut a smoking wood? Compared to oak how long do you season? This is first video splitting walnut...good job..

[@bensfirewood]

Thanks for commenting. From my experience, Walnut seasons faster than Oak. The bark seems to hold quite a bit of moisture, but the wood itself dries quite nicely.

[@bensfirewood]

I am also pretty particular about size of splits. Like you, I usually only use the 4-way when I have quite a pile of rounds in that 8"-12" range. I recently got a load of Oak and Hickory logs from a logger that were all on the small side (6"-12"). The 4-way worked awesome. I set it kind of high so that in most cases the two pieces on the top came out the right size, then I split the bottom two pieces one more time each. The 4-way definitely saved me time on that wood and it didn't create a crazy amount of scrap either.

[@kembanggula4772]

I was enjoying the video until you add the music. Had to skip this vid.