Last week’s blog post Lots of Wood told how I suddenly got a huge deposit of maple wood.
A tree service guy had approached me while I was working in the yard with an offer to take down a large maple tree that needed to be removed. After negotiating a good price, I agreed, and the next day the tree came down.
We were suddenly blessed with a huge pile of large logs. I began splitting them with wedges and a sledgehammer as shown in the photo.
What with sawing limbs and splitting logs, I processed and stacked several cords of wood. But it would have taken me many, many more months to split the still huge pile that remained using only my wedges and sledgehammer.
And some of the logs were so huge or so twisted or so knotted that I doubted my ability to split them into manageable pieces of firewood.
But then the Great Creator sent my good friend Joe to the rescue. Joe told me that when attending a Bible study at the home of his friend Sonny, he saw many stacks of freshly split firewood.
Upon inquiring how so much wood was split so fast, Sonny said he had a hydraulic log splitter. Sonny heats his house with wood and burns 14 cords yearly for heat. So he needs a log splitter.
Joe has a very generous heart, and he knew someone who badly needed a log splitter. So he made the arrangements. Last Friday Sonny and Joe came over with Sonny’s log splitter to help me.
The three of us and my wife worked for five hours splitting, loading splits into wheelbarrows, pushing them around to the other side of the house, dumping the loads, and stacking the wood. The machine split logs far faster than we could process the splits, so we have multiple huge piles of splits scattered around the yard still in need of stacking.
Sonny’s RuggedMade log splitter is a marvelous machine. It is powered by a gasoline engine. The hydraulic ram drives the log against vertical and horizontal wedge-like blades in the shape of a cross to divide the log into four splits.
The ram drives the logs against blades with up to 37 tons of force. None of my logs were able to withstand that pressure. They all split.
The splitter also has a hydraulic log lift that will lift up to 300 pounds. We rolled logs onto the power lift and let the splitter lift the logs up to the steel beam for splitting. A large catcher tray corrals the splits.
Here is the website for Sonny’s 37-ton RuggedSplit machine which has more info and specs on the splitter, possibly more than you care to know.
Sonny’s log splitter can split logs up to 30 inches in length. The specs on the website say it can split logs up to two feet in diameter. But it split my biggest ones which were five feet in diameter with no difficulty.
Sonny surveyed all the wood we split Friday along with what I had cut and split previously and calculated we got 11 cords of wood from our big maple. It will probably last us for two to three years.
My big log problem described in Lots of Wood has now been reduced to a much simpler stacking problem.
I thank Joe and Sonny for their amazing help, and I thank the Lord for sending them to help me.
Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
(James 1:17)
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed.
(2 Corinthians 9:8)
Questions to Ponder
1. What resource, tool, or talent has God given you to share?
2. Whom is God nudging you to assist with a practical need?
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For Christ and His Kingdom.
Alere Flammam Veritatis.
Soli Deo Gloria.
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Out of Thin Air!
Lots of Wood
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