splitting wood when it's 104!

[H Rhodes]

I am learning a lesson about letting my stave supply run low in the middle of a heat wave....  I spent the last few days gathering wood - some white oak and winged elm...  It was 104 degrees during the splitting and debarking of this bad boy.  My wife says that I need mental help.  Who cares? this one is gonna make a good one.

[Pat B]

The bark should come off both easily this time of the year but splitting elm is a b*tch any time of year. d;^)
  We haven't hit 100 yet but it has been 97. When we moved here 22 years ago it never(I mean never) got over 85. Unless I have to work I don't over stress myself in high temp weather and even at work(landscape) my work rate goes way down.

[H Rhodes]

It has been terribly dry here and was over a hundred by lunch time....  The bark did come off the oak really easily, but the elm seemed to be stuck more than I expected....  a symptom of the lack of rain?  I have to work real slow, so that I don't melt - drinking water by the gallon!   

   I know what you mean about the elm...  I saw a kerf early on and let it dry around that,  on the big ones.  The smaller trees, I just split them on the table saw.

  It was so hot the other afternoon that when I got home from work, I didn't hear a bird, cicada, locust, cricket... nothing....  sounded like nerve gas had been used on my little farm... I guess it's too hot for anything to move or make a noise.  My garden looks like November.....

[okie64]

I was in the same boat as you a couple of years ago when I let my stave supply get too low in the middle of summertime. It really sucks splittin wood in 100 degree temps. I specifically remember my wife coming outside while I was in the middle of splittin a big black locust log and all she had to say was "What the hell is wrong with you"? 

[H Rhodes]

Ha!    yep, i know what you mean.  The look she gave me made me question my own sanity there for a minute...