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Posted by Kevin (FL) on August 24, 2004 at 20:21:06 from (12.77.199.51):
In Reply to: OT - toughest wood to split posted by TheRealRon on August 24, 2004 at 10:24:24:
Live oak is the knurliest and toughest wood I've ever come across. It will stall our 24 ton splitter at a medium idle. It has to be run up to 3600 to split the larger pieces. And to think as a kid in Mississippi we used to split that stuff with 3 or 4 wedges and two mauls and a couple of axes too. Many times I can remember my 5 brothers and myself taking turns on the maul trying to drive the wedges in. We lived in an old two story frame house with two fireplaces for heat. Don't know what we would have done if we had lived on the northern plains somwhere--probably would have froze to death... Right after Hurricane Camille hit our town, we noticed US Navy lowboy trucks running around town and after a few days we found out why they were in town--to pick up the live oak trunks and large limbs. These were used in the restoration of Old Ironsides up in Boston--the ship the British claimed to witness their cannonballs bouncing off of during battle.
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