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careful, you will crack and damage the concrete ;)

Thats awesome, some of the peppermint gum at a neighboring farm that was planted by their parents years ago has straight grain, some will pop quite easily, even 10" rounds, other bits, the maul (we call it a splitter) just bounces back off them and leaves a dent barely 1/8" into the end grain...

Your fortunate that you can do that, even pieces 10" dia can be impossible to split with a hand maul, its hydraulic only territory, it just tears the fibers apart as it splits due to the wavy grain of the timber and its hardness.

yep, looks simmilar to the sugar gums here we use for firewood, twisty grain, can only be split with hydraulics, tears up a set of gloves each session, and the splinters when loading the firebox are like steel. burns well tho. Looks a bit like greybox ;) edited to add. burns well after a few...

Some of the Euc over here is so dense that it dosent float.

yep, sure does, makes all the effort of splitting and years to dry worth it. edited to add, thats a 35t Redgum splitter, most of what we use for firewood, Sugar gum is up there with Grey and Yellow box euc, wavy grain, splits/ more like it tears apart, even when dry, and forget trying to use...