Lynn Dollar
is Blowin Smoke!
You use a wedge and a sledge hammer.
They split better from top to bottom.
For future trimming info you don't cut them into Y's. Instead cut one of the branches as parallel to the main limb/trunk as possible. Then split there with a wedge.
Right, don't create these things.
But I was not involved in that part, FIL had a tree service remove the tree, they cut it up into pieces, and then I got the pieces.
Tree service cut it the way I would prune a bush or a tree. I would've done it differently for the smoker.