I’m only working on it when I’m not too busy at work, if it’s sunny outside and I don’t feel like doing something else, so it’s not rising all that quickly. Still, slowly but surely, it’s going up 🙂
Here’s another view from the center of it - which will probably be the last time I can go there to setup the camera, as it’s getting too high to step inside, and I need to start filling it up with wood anyway:
Looking good. Super jealous of the amount of timber for splitting. Not so much for the amount of splitting. Could you tell us what tools your are using and how often you’re sharpening them?
I had a dozen trees felled on the property last fall, and I didn’t know what to do with all the wood. Now I know: splitting wood is a good, healthy physical activity. When I’m done with that lot, I’ll have more firewood than I’ll need for a few years, so I might sell some of it and buy more unsplit timber just for the sport.
Just a maul and a hatchet. I don’t sharpen them 🙂 I’m doing this to sweat outside, I don’t need to be efficient, so it’s fine. I suppose at some point they’ll be blunt enough that I’ll bother sharpening them. But at the moment, the edges are dull enough to press a thumb on with some gusto safely and they still split wood well enough for my taste.