T i m wrote:

Anyone know if fairly green ash is particularly hard to split and
would one of the Wolf 10 tonne splitters the OP has now gone for do
the trick? This chog, only 12" long and about 14" in diameter, once
split in half showed a very dark 'V' up the middle? It also seemed
very fibrous, not wanting to let go even when actually split in half?

Ash is easy to split, it sounds like your bit was from just below a crotch.
The art is in crosscutting to avoid knots and forks in the middle of a log.
I still have a log processor rusting away somewhere but most of my logs
come from one of the tree gangs who just cross cut enough to facilitate
getting it into a transit. My rule when splitting by hand is if it takes
more than 3 blows I re cut it with a saw.

Despite high prices for logs we still find it best to give arisings away to
people who ask, saves having to load it.

AJH