09/04/26: Not only the splitting continues, but so does the chopping. Over the last two days I removed the sapwood and bark with an axe of a single larch log, yielding another 5 colums in 2,6-3m for a new fence . I'll probably leave all the columns as they are round and blunt on both sides, since only 1 or 2 would be thick enough to be cut into two pieces. The thickest column (the bottom one, yes it is only one piece) is badly bent, so I'll probably leave it whole and use it as a special corner column. Even if there are only five columns, it still takes some work to get them into this shape.
Luckily this time the sapwood of this log was already pretty rotten, so I saved myself a few calories and some additional hours of chopping.

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