naturist wrote:
Crack walnuts?
Split sycamore into useful firewood? (For those who don't know, sycamore is very hard to split because of the way the grain grows.)
Pick up the center of a joist that is sagging a tad so you can put a proper pier under it?
Push a loaded freezer far enough away from the basement wall so you can fix something behind it?
As one who has heated with wood all his life and has always hand split all his wood, I have to say that sounds like an all day job just to split a small amount.
And then I have to ask : Will it split Beech ? My guess is the bottle jack would explode !
Jack L