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RE: Making a pretty garden swing instead of a kids toy!
Great idea. My wife was just asking me to buy here a swing like this to set out by our fire pit. I uses black locusts for our fence post. You are right about them lasting forever and they are as hard as cement. How did you rip them in half for the seat?
I split everything by axe and wedges. You end up with some firewood and some good half logs. Than I take the angle grinder with a very rough disc to get the worst spots off. The last step was going to a person with a planer..
You can also use big table saw or go nuts with a handsaw :)
If your log is a bit too thick you can also ripsaw with the chainsaw. It's easier than it looks. Make a undeep cut of 1cm deep over the length and keep repeating this. You will end up with two halves that you can plane. :)
I have never tried to split one by hand. That is impressive. These trees are hard as a rock
They split quite easily with enough sharp wedges. The tricky part is to split straight...