Any Home Bakers Here?

[jnicholes]

Morning Home Bakers, Happy All Hallows Day!

Happy Halloween to you too!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning @jnicholes

 

[jnicholes]

I forgot to post this picture yesterday. It’s for a Halloween party. I believe the recipe is already in the index.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

For me, it's Happy Reformation Day!

 

[Sally PB]

A few years ago we invested in a wood splitter from Home Depot. You could rent one for a few hours too at your local hardware rental place. I know True Value here does. Get the kind that has vertical option so you just roll those logs underneath it flat side up, then bring the wedge down on it and voila!

Ours works in either the vertical or horizontal mode. Hubby usually runs it horizontally, but he had some pieces that were too big to lift, so he ran it vertically for those.

Yes and with some woods like elm it is the only way. Elm is really fibrous and twisty, nearly impossible to split in half either by hand or any powered splitter. On the other hand, ash is so straight grained that it almost falls apart with minimal effort.

We have lots of Siberian Elm. Yeah, it is STRINGY! And if it's still green enough to feel damp, it stinks. Barnyard-manurey smell.

Walnut is stringy too. Hubby tried to split some by hand, and said it wasn't worth his effort. So we saved those until we rented a wood splitter.

Ash is the best wood, I've heard. We have more oak and maple. A few living ash trees, but DH doesn't cut living trees. He either cuts standing dead, or "volunteers" from storms.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Maybe it's the picture but it looks hard to read to me.

That may be from the angle he's holding it at or the camera, although I feel in person it would be fine.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

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@R2elk here’s a better picture. The filament I used is kinda shiny, making it hard to get a picture.

Much easier to read.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Bakers good evening one and all!

When we lived up north we used to get a woodcutter to drop 4 cords of wood in the yard for the winter.

We split and stacked it just outside the garage door as our stove was in the basement and it heated all 3 levels of the house.

We preferred to use hickory wood, bu couldn't get it often.

Temperature is in the 60s.

Have a great day!

 

[jnicholes]

I got the second page printed!

 

[MotherofOrpies]

5 years and no cracking yet. wow
Do they have places near you in Germany where you can rent a splitter for a day? The vertical splitting type like was mentioned?


Yes and with some woods like elm it is the only way. Elm is really fibrous and twisty, nearly impossible to split in half either by hand or any powered splitter. On the other hand, ash is so straight grained that it almost falls apart with minimal effort.

We can rent a splitter, but we have to somehow get it home, or also invest in transport, then, the slices are so heavy, I’m not sure we will manage to roll them ( when they were fresh I think 3 grown men rolled them ) my hubby isn’t the handyman type of person , and my youngest son isn’t very good either, I can’t help right now ( just helping cleaning out the sed yesterday resulted in me being in bed the rest of the day ) so I fear we have to wait until I am totally „renewed“ and up and running again