I AM IRON WOOD

[George Tsoukalas]

That's some nice wood there. Hope you make a lot of bows from it. Jawge

[Ryano]

kerfing it is the only way to go with iron wood or elm. If not you'll use every wedge you got and probally still not have enough. Even straight grained iron wood or elm will run off on you if you don't kerf it because of the inner locking grain. It rips apart instead of splitting like other woods. I would be interested to see a bow made entirely or iron wood heart wood but even on the larger tree's I've cut there always seems to be to many knots and healed over branches in the inner part of the tree.

[cowboy]

Nice haul Tim! that aught to be enough wood to keep ya out of trouble for awhile .

[Pappy]

Looks like a good bunch of logs,lots of bows there.Nice haul.
   Pappy

[Dean Marlow]

Good luck on splitting IRONWOOD. I split three logs a few months ago and most of it became fire wood. It is a great bow wood if you can get it to split half way straight. On some of those bigger logs I would try and saw it out for some nice boards. Glue that IRONWOOD up with some bamboo and you got something. Dean

[John K]

Nice load of logs there Tim ! I split some last summer and it wasn't that bad  Makes the beer taste all that much better after splitting 

[Bear67]

kerfing is just basicaly creating a fault line(to my understanding)so as to guide the split .
you can kerf wood,brick,glass etc,even leaf srings in your truck

Thanks, that makes more sence.  Its like starting a split and using a wedge or somthing down the trunk to keeep it in line.
Bear

[El Destructo]

snap a chaulk line....set the Shill Saw to about a half inch....and cut you some lines....go back and split with wedges.....keeps some of the Squirelly woods from splitting badly...I know for a fact it works good on Elm and Locust