SNIP:

If you're stubborn and refuse to accept 'no' then you can split a trunk.  I also
use a slick on the end of a shovel handle, a hatchet, lots and lots of wedges
and wooden gluts.  This is an english walnut that eventually gave way.

http://galootcentral.com/components/cpgalbums/userpics/10072/Pic_4.jpg

http://galootcentral.com/components/cpgalbums/userpics/10072/Pic_3.jpg

http://galootcentral.com/components/cpgalbums/userpics/10072/Pic_5.jpg

 

END SNIP:

Wow.  That is a lot like work!

J