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You know, it wasn't that hard to split. I've split some other live oaks where it felt like taking a sledge hammer and beating a tire, but this split up pretty well. Got rid of 3 or 4 partial rounds where it was either rotted out or the knots were too much, but overall, it wasn't bad.