SPLITTING FIREWOOD on the FAST EASTONMADE ULTRA WOOD SPLITTER!

FAST FIREWOOD SPLITTING is what the EASTONMADE ULTRA wood splitter does! Even with the single wedge this splitter make firewood so quick that it is hard to keep the machine fed!

[@toddsoutsideagain]

Locust splits great as well! We split a lot of it with an axe in the beginning. Pops right open! Take care Sir Chriseth👍🏻👍🏻GNI

[@InTheWoodyard]

Right on Sir Toddeth!

[@annaaron3510]

Big case of locust envy here. Black Locust in Deer Isle to be saved for winter days in the singles or below zero.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, it is cold weather wood for sure!

[@annaaron3510]

@@InTheWoodyard Wisconsin to Maine only 21 hours through Canada. You will be delivering 4 cords Locust soon ? 😁😁

[@kenthorsen4558]

You gotta love the old truck in the shed at the beginning of the video 👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, it is cool, still runs great!

[@aldredske6197]

Good afternoon Chris!!😀😀

[@InTheWoodyard]

Hey there Al!

[@haroldanderson2781]

My wife appreciates you wearing the sun hat. She works in derm. I was instructed to tell you to keep up with your full body skin exams since you are outside all the time.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for the tip! I try to get my wife to do the full body skin exams on me but usually she runs away.

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Nice looking splits

[@InTheWoodyard]

They are! Thanks!!

[@roncaron-l1r]

Good morning Chris you need a Horse to pull your wood splitter lol nice video ( Ty Ron

[@InTheWoodyard]

I am a horse! Ha!

[@roncaron-l1r]

@@InTheWoodyard The best Chris lol

[@annmariekowalski7505]

Thanks for sharing. Lots of camera setups. Thanks for showing the Black Locust.. No gym is needed when working with Honey Locust.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks, you got that right...lifting weights!

[@coreyriley7160]

G’mornin Chris. Awesome splitting technique ! Old school format. Quick question : have you ever broken a window while loading? You coulda, I woulda, you shoulda. GoodNightIrene !!!!!!!!!!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

I have tried thousands of times to break a window on my truck but it is obviously bullet proof, like my limo is.

[@ethanpemberton9011]

Goodmorning. The honey and black locust both are native in southern ill. The honey locust are thick along creeks and fence rows. Old tree books say they are great erosion control. Beautiful tree and firewood. The bad the locust borers put alot of saw dust in the pile. You can hear them chewing in my stacks of honey locust.

[@InTheWoodyard]

The do that to the hickory here.

[@rickthelian2215]

Time for more Splitting 😊

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, always!

[@johnneufeld9539]

Good morning! Love watching the channel, I watch it every day. Why do the box store spliters have a V wedge and the commercial have more of a knife style?

[@InTheWoodyard]

My guess is cost to make and quality of the metal and just better design.

[@stannelson2582]

Many farms around me in w ny have black locust someplace on the farm. They grow fast they spread like wild fire. They were used for fence post.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yes and yup, great posts!

[@davidedwards3734]

Great splitting!! Missed yesterday's episode so I must go and watch!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks! You too!

[@scotchancestry9103]

Yep better than oak, love me some black locust always lokking for it

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup!

[@scottleppard288]

Very impressed with the splitter. We heat with wood here in central New Hampshire and harvest and split all our wood. Gotta ask, what's the tonnage on your splitter?

[@InTheWoodyard]

It is around 17 tons...it's actual tons not just a label like most splitters that say 30 tons but is actually more like 20. To me speed is more important. Check out EASTONMADES web site for more info!

[@scottleppard288]

@@InTheWoodyard Great vid brother!

[@kurtloftfield4537]

Good morning all, GNI!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Hello Kurt!

[@GPOutdoors]

Morning Chris! Big Wood!! LOL!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Morning Gord...I got the sign...it looks great...just shot a video with it and it will be on in a few weeks! Thanks again!

[@GPOutdoors]

@@InTheWoodyard Great - I am so glad you like it. I am getting better with more experience making them. Cheers and all the best Chris!

[@h-dinosaur-machine]

6:46 Great technique! I learned a lot about splitting wood efficiently.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Glad it was helpful!

[@michaelparcus3625]

Build a small moveable ramp to drive the front tires of the tractor onto in order to raise the bucket to dump over the bins?

[@InTheWoodyard]

I would need a lot of ramps or I would to constantly move it.

[@leonardryan8723]

Probably see Adam dad for boiler wood 🪵, he got a field full of it for sure . Chris you didn’t bring much firewood 🪵 logs this winter ❄️ for stock up 🔝 the wood 🪵 yard for dry season this summer. Half a semi load behind 22MB EASTONMADE be there the last 6 months or more . I’ll have to go back threw 1400 videos check went it was delivered on what DATE 😊. remember STICK on the ICE 🧊, SAW in the WOOD 🪵 and RUBBER on the ROAD . Donny Walker back repair an old husqvarna that first came out in my days 65cc and 77cc in 1956 to 1958 Donny look 👀 up the series # to real Date on the husqvarna chainsaw . I remember it was golden went husqvarna hit the forest 🌳, ALL the others were junk if you want my true on chainsaw were heavy and slow like 👍 molasses. The old chainsaw use them for weight in a lobsters traps might be alright in a cove . 😊

[@InTheWoodyard]

I just got another truckload delivered, and another will come in a week or so.

[@leonardryan8723]

If HONEY LOCUST is heavy, sure split like 👍 butter 🧈 on the wood 🪵 splitter. If I was you I use ORANGE 🍊 or BLACK snow fence around the split firewood 🪵 look 👀 clean 🧽 and easier for tractor 🚜 to load firewood 🪵 on wooden pallets. Get some hydro ground rods make with gav Steel dip for hold up the snow fence . 😊

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good idea!

[@leonardryan8723]

Iiiii iiiiii been THINKING 🤔 why you cut your block of firewood 🪵 in half ? Went you can roll them in the tractor 🚜 bucket and put them on single wedge and split them in half is a lot faster. A true logger throw them on the splitter with NO PROBLEM, unless there over 55 gallon barrel of diesel fuel ⛽️. I know I’m get old now but still lift my weight for my age as old time logger.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Those rounds at 25"wide x 16"long weigh between 200 and 230 pounds and with crotches and twisted grain do not split easy or well so I use my brain and my saws to do the work and rip them so the split easier.

[@barryschwienteck5412]

I've never split/burnt locust. Looks like good stuff ... very tight grained with smooth split and little waste like straight-grained red oak, but with more BTUs. What's not to like?

[@InTheWoodyard]

The honey locust is awesome but the black locust bark usually comes off and is pretty messy while working it into rounds.

[@christopherhaak9824]

I love black locust for burning. Got about 4 cords a couple of years ago. Nice thing is that it grows to a nice size for firewood very quickly, although treated as invasive in some cases. I was down in Yankton at the Lewis and Clark State park and collected about 100 black locust seeds. They product a prolific amount of seeds as they get older. They are a very hardy disease resistant tree.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup they make great firewood!

[@briannelson4493]

Locus is a fairly scarce commodity there’s 2 trees growing on the farm thats it ,no other locus trees that I’ve ever found . I have black walnut trees growing on my property that I planted. Should be better than boxelder.

[@InTheWoodyard]

It is good wood..plant some more!

[@cliffjenkins6419]

Good video Chris,and interesting how well the locust split,even the dry Black bit. Nice tractor work squaring up the bin side. Cheers from HB NZ

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks...you noticed that aye!?!?

[@lyleharkness-rv5vf]

Nice splitting session 👍 I don't know about honey locust but black locust of any significant size tends to twist or curl. We used to make trailer and wagon beds out of locust. You pretty much had to work it down to the dimension you wanted and then stack and sticker it green and put heavy weights on top of it to keep it flat while it dried or it would twist and cup on you. Better rot resistance than oak but harder than hell dry. High speed steel tools have a hard time with it. A lot of historical buildings have locust sill beams in our region. Good video

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching and thanks for the lumber info!

[@DaveDunehew-e1f]

That specie of wood seems to have a fairly good grain to split. TY for sharing. Have a great July 4th. Dave D. From Maine.🇺🇸

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks, you too!

[@GregPrince-io1cb]

Good Morning all you Woodhounds!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Morning!

[@templar1694]

Wish rural folks that gathers wood also has wood gasifier generators especially if electricity is scarce in their area.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup.

[@KAMP8505]

Honey locust smells good as well

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup!

[@leonardryan8723]

Remember your LEFT is my RIGHT . Chris you make some Atlantic salmon flies for your HAT 🎩. decor the wood 🪵 yard with SILVER DOCTOR , BLUE CHARM and WHITE WOLF dry flies for sea 🌊 and brook trouts . 😊😊

[@InTheWoodyard]

Okay.

[@petro00441100]

can you deliver that locust to Uncasville CT ?? i'll give you one hundred million dollars

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yes, I would for just one million! Send me the address, I'll be there tomorrow!

[@adamholbrook2281]

That's some purty wood. The wild honey Locust down here (SW Ohio) is covered in huge long needle like thorns and we too have the "thornless" domestic or landscape variety for ornamental use as well but I've never cut one. Plenty of wild black lociust and yes that's some good hot burning wood. I'm looking at an Eastonmade Ultra splitter, so watching some of your related videos. Fine piece of machinery. Hope your season is getting into high gear!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching Adam...get the Ultra...you will love it!

[@adamholbrook2281]

@@InTheWoodyard It's on order! Maybe I'll have it by mid November.

[@billobermeyer660]

Glad to see you are still using your sun protection clothes. GNI

[@InTheWoodyard]

I was still on meds then so I had to.

[@grantsinclair4278]

I wish we were wearing long sleeves in Ar. 115 heat index today.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, we had a stretch of 50s and 60s for a while there, it's only hit 80 a few days so far....Wisconsin summers are awesome most days ...we pay for it with -20 to -30 for weeks in the winter which lasts for 5-6 months!

[@toddpacheco4748]

Chris,is honey locust better than Osage orange wood 😮😊❤

[@InTheWoodyard]

For what? Cutting, splitting, drying, selling , finding???? If you mean heat wise as in BTUs ....honey locust is 26.7 and osage is 32.9 so no, it is not better.

[@johnferretti8331]

Chris in all the videos I never see bugs or ants in the wood!

[@InTheWoodyard]

We do get some ants in wood...mostly red oak in the logs. But when it is cut split and dried they leave.

[@stevestoll3124]

My brother owns a tree service in the valley and locust is not too common. Most he encounters were planted in the mid to late 70s. They replaced a lot of the elm trees that were cut down.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, lots of the towns planted them on the boulevards.

[@stevestoll3124]

@@InTheWoodyard cities liked them before the Ash craze took off.

[@leonardryan8723]

First of all I WISHING ALL WOOD 🪵 HOUNDS A WONDERFUL AND SAFE 4 th JULY AMERICAN 🇺🇸 DAY WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS . Chris you need a E- bike 🏍 with a trailer hitch to pull your Axles out into the wood 🪵 yard . Bert probably make up 🔝 something for the back of the E- bike 🏍. If I had it for a hr probably gear ⚙️ something up 🔝 for you in the shop for sure . Remember Man made it or MAN can rebuild repair and come up 🔝 with something for sure in 2024 . 😊😊

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, good idea!

[@DennisTrom]

The Honey Locust is genus Gleditsia and Black Locust is Genus Robinia. Two different trees with compound leaves. The wild Honey Locust has some really nasty thorns. Black Locust will grow just about anywhere and is often used when reclaiming strip mined areas.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, this it the non-thorny non-seed pod honey locust. It's a pretty common yard tree choice here.

[@larryvankirk7423]

Nice video Chris. What you split today is premium heating wood. Odd shaped pieces that resulted from noodling twisted grain rounds don’t stack well but the wood corrals didn’t care. Happy 4th of July. GNI

[@InTheWoodyard]

Great points , thanks!

[@jeffpeters1014]

The last time I had honey locust I split it by hand- won’t be doing that again!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, tough wood!

[@GARYPETERSON-t9u]

If this is sold for firewood why split so small? We never wanted any that small-burnt too fast

[@DanielAtkinsFirewood]

I split small as it sessions faster, and for the lady and kids of the house, it's easier for them to handle.

[@InTheWoodyard]

90% of the wood I sell is for fireplaces, small wood stoves and smokeless fire pits. Those people I sell to DO NOT heat with wood they burn for fun and the want smaller one hand size pieces. Some of the people that I sell to that burn for heat have small high efficiency wood stoves with small fireboxes and they too do not want big wood. I do have a couple people I sell to that have wood boilers and all but one have high efficiency stoves and they also want smaller pieces so they can pack more wood in tighter. This allows 24 hour burns because their stoves burn better with smaller dry wood and have controls that burn longer with extremely well run dampers way better than just a couple big logs that smolder. They get over 90% efficiency verses the old ones that are maybe 60% efficient. I am doing a custom split now for a customer that wants 20" long pieces that are just 1/2s ans 1/4s splits, it will be on soon.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup!

[@Mainelywork]

🤘

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks AGAIN!

[@johnsandell4501]

Impressive production! Thanks for showing the difference in wood species. You are a wood splitting human machine 👍👍👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching!

[@johnbarnes8126]

Locust doesn’t have much water in it. About 800 lbs to the cord. Like oak it doesn’t dry fast.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, heavy dense wood.

[@Stewart_Goodson]

You are right; locust is some pretty wood. Don't have that much down here in the swamps of eastern NC.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, pretty and hot burning!

[@waynetharp]

Looks awesome!! Now to find enough more Locust to completely fill the bin! 👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, I would need to get a hold of some more tree service guys and it would not take long to get a mess of it! Thanks Wayne!

[@two-strokesmoke7289]

Ya need and "electric" ATV to pull the Ultra around the woodyard........

[@InTheWoodyard]

Maybe so!

[@leonardryan8723]

Chris honey locust if it like PURE HONEY 🍯 it be expensive firewood bundles on today market. Went out in grocery store 🏬 look 👀 at PRICE of PURE HONEY 🍯 😮. Remember as a true logger never KILL a HONEY 🍯 BEE 🐝 😊😊

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, it is good wood!

[@atskooc]

Once the honey locust starts to grow seed pods, look out. New trees will start popping up all over the place!

[@InTheWoodyard]

This is the non-pod non-thorny kind.

[@jameschandler2776]

That locust is beautiful. For someone wanting heat, that will be amazing.

[@InTheWoodyard]

I think so too!

[@DanielAtkinsFirewood]

Nice looking splits, Chris. 😉👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks 👍

[@simplelifewithrobertpusate294]

Chartreuse 😁

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, kinda that!

[@KAMP8505]

Locust is probably my favorite firewood

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, great wood!

[@timrydman-mr5hp]

You get a lot of wood out of just one piece you cut up. Real nice finished product.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, big wood makes a lot of pieces for sure! Thanks!

[@carllewis8203]

🎉

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks!

[@jackpinesavageadventures3142]

👍🏻👏🪵🪓

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks!!!

[@jaywuchner9342]

Wisconsin Mariachi...something new.😊

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, always a party!

[@bekaerttrio2231]

👍👍👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks!!!

[@robertblacksmith4355]

I've burned both "Honey" & "Black Locust" great firewood!Love the Barn & the old Truck!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, great wood! Thanks!

[@melissasmess2773]

🦫beaver approved, be safe!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks!!!