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A log splitter is a piece of machinery or equipment used for splitting firewood from softwood or hardwood logs that have been pre-cut into sections (rounds), usually by chainsaw or on a saw bench. Many log splitters consist of a hydraulic pump or electric motor which then powers a hydraulic or electrical rod and piston assembly.
Log splitting is the act of splitting firewood from logs that have been pre-cut into sections (rounds, bolts, billets [3]). This can be done by hand, using an axe or maul, or by using a mechanical log splitter. [4] When splitting a log by hand, it is best to aim for the cracks (called checks), if there are any visible. [5]
Madera Sugar Pine Company loggers in caulked boots in the Sierra Nevada (1927). Caulk boots or calk boots [1] (also called cork boots, timber boots, logger boots, logging boots, or corks) [2] are a form of rugged spike-soled footwear that are most often associated with the timber industry. [3]
A Eucalyptus being felled using springboards, c. 1884–1917, Australia McGiffert Log Loader in East Texas, US, c. 1907 Lumber under snow in Montgomery, Colorado, 1880s. Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport.
A splitting maul also known as a block buster, block splitter, chop and maul, sledge axe, go-devil or hamaxe is a heavy, long-handled axe used for splitting a piece of wood along its grain. One side of its head is like a sledgehammer , and the other side is like an axe.
A log driver using a peavey. A cant hook, pike, or hooked pike is a traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook called a dog at one end, used for handling and turning logs and cants, especially in sawmills. A cant hook has a blunt end, or possibly small teeth for friction.
A lumberjack c. 1900. Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers.
Wood chopping competition at Avilés, Spain, 2005. Woodsman (also, woodsmen, pl.) refers to the title of competitors participating in competitive timber sports.Woodsmen participate in various events that replicate real skills used by lumberjacks while cutting down trees and preparing the wood.