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Log Splitter
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Hey what's that? I've never seen one of those before...is it hydraulic?
Fancy popping down the M4 and demonstrating how quick a real man can split my wood pile with one?
Alan
reloader54
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Think you'll find that's a splitting maul.
this is a "bunch of girls"
John Gryphon
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Thats a ripper that axle mount,impressive ingenuity!
The splitting cones are indeed awesomely fast and from what I have seen ideal for the shorter length wood stove boxes of which I have one in the kitchen,a slow combustion oven with HW jacket that is a pain to cut for as it takes about 9" wood whereas the living area Coonara firebox handles 2' logs. The little one requires three times as many cuts with the chainsaw with a length of wood and that is a pain.
I doubt if Thor could hand split a 2' length of our Grey/Yellow Box wood,I couldn't even as a 30 year old. My cheap little machine is slow compared to the exy models,but I still have my back!
We had one of these superaxes at my old place and they have a hydraulic log lifter on one end that I don't have on my own unit and I surely miss having.
I would buy one in a flash if I had a few extra quid.
Then there is in floor concrete slab heating,no wood no ash no work!
The splitting cones are indeed awesomely fast and from what I have seen ideal for the shorter length wood stove boxes of which I have one in the kitchen,a slow combustion oven with HW jacket that is a pain to cut for as it takes about 9" wood whereas the living area Coonara firebox handles 2' logs. The little one requires three times as many cuts with the chainsaw with a length of wood and that is a pain.
I doubt if Thor could hand split a 2' length of our Grey/Yellow Box wood,I couldn't even as a 30 year old. My cheap little machine is slow compared to the exy models,but I still have my back!
We had one of these superaxes at my old place and they have a hydraulic log lifter on one end that I don't have on my own unit and I surely miss having.
I would buy one in a flash if I had a few extra quid.
Then there is in floor concrete slab heating,no wood no ash no work!
unless you have a really heavy duty,[I'm talking like the one below]
works great even the missus enjoys working it. [which is a bonus]as you can see the grain makes a world of difference.
The chap in the video says he keeps an axe for 'really stringy of tough wood' !!!!!!!!!!!!
countrryboy
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To be honest the worst thing i hate about splitting wood is the bending down to pick it up.
I still like my axe, treated myself a Fiskars X27 which makes swinging an axe a real pleasure and effortless.
I'm lucky to have a banking that i can dump my timber on, i ring it, it rolls down to my splitting point and i have a couple of sleepers dug into the banking so splitting at waist hieght all the time.
I can usually fill my 6T dumper skip in under an hour just splitting (generally 18-24" long hardwoods) more because of the set up than me swinging hard
If u can somehow rigg ur set up wether axe or splitter to let gravity do the work it makes life easy
Either that or hire a couple of different 1's see wot u like. A lot might depend on the size of logs as well as wood type/grain
I still like my axe, treated myself a Fiskars X27 which makes swinging an axe a real pleasure and effortless.
I'm lucky to have a banking that i can dump my timber on, i ring it, it rolls down to my splitting point and i have a couple of sleepers dug into the banking so splitting at waist hieght all the time.
I can usually fill my 6T dumper skip in under an hour just splitting (generally 18-24" long hardwoods) more because of the set up than me swinging hard
If u can somehow rigg ur set up wether axe or splitter to let gravity do the work it makes life easy
Either that or hire a couple of different 1's see wot u like. A lot might depend on the size of logs as well as wood type/grain
To save you bending stand the log inside an old car tyre chop or split with your axe, they don't bounce or jump about they just stay in situ.
John Gryphon
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A big bucket on the tractor that takes the split wood straight off the splitter bench is good AND a shed big enough for the tractor entry to dump the loads as the bucket fills saves a lot of double handling.
reloader54
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we were all doing like that 30 years ago friend,,
now we thank the hydraulics and save time,,, and our back.
reloader54
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I bought half a dozen steel mesh sided stillages from eBay. I roll a load of rounds onto a pallet, lift the pallet to the splitter table height with the tele handler. The splitter is mounted on the end of the dipper arm of the mini digger and the table rests on the edge and overhangs a stillage. Split and the bits fall off the table into the stillage, make a tower of stillages in the barn for drying. Through the winter park a stillage outside the cottage door with a bit of carpet over to keep the rain and snow off.
The stillages are currently stacked four high with a ladder leaning on it and a stacking chair sitting in the top one for the evening squeak for a roe buck.
Multi functional labour saving modular system!
Alan
Tom D
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I have 3 splitters, but we are in the wood business, they key with the cheaper ones is the flow. It’s easy to generate tonnage force that will split plenty of logs if you want speed however you need flow, many of the cheap machine mart type splitters have got the force but not the flow. So you wait for the log to split and then you wait for the ram to return. It’s fine for a domestic job where you only do a small amount but if you do a lot you need the speed.
Heres a great one! https://youtu.be/2bVAAx3mMKY
Heres a great one! https://youtu.be/2bVAAx3mMKY
I remember seeing one like that a few years ago when I was thinking about making a splitter.
They are still terrifying machines...look at 34 seconds in!
Alan
Monkey Spanker
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For the minimal amount you are doing, just get a Fiskars X27 splitting axe and enjoy the exercise!
Get decent wood such as Ash and you will have no problem.. Elm doesn't even exist any more! Hit any log right and it will split. That's all part of the fun and challenge!
MS
Get decent wood such as Ash and you will have no problem.. Elm doesn't even exist any more! Hit any log right and it will split. That's all part of the fun and challenge!
MS
I do think most domestic splitters are too slow and I can split most logs faster with the maul. The other negative about a splitter is they take up more room in the shed. If am getting logs they are cut and split on site so it leaves the mess in the forest and then the logs are stacked in the shed. Electric splitter means there is another time you have to handle the rings and clean up the mess.
For just the amount of logs I need per year I would not give a splitter room in the shed. It might be different when I get older or if I was doing a few trailers loads per week instead of a few per year.
+1. Saw the branches into logs while they are well away from the ground and split while still sappy.
countrryboy
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Thats my view too, not seen an electric/hobby 1 i rate.
A double ram/splitter might be a handy thing so splitting a log as it goes in too, speed the job up a bit
My mates dad makes his own hydralic ones with a donkey engine they are the daddies, but he sells firewood mibee liook to buy 1 of his old ones if he ever retires.
He makes them with only 1 control thou, so not really H&S legal. (mant to have 2 so hands are never where they shouldn't be)
A mate i used to cut with took the top of his finger off with it and never even felt it as it was cold and he has vibration white finger after a lifetime on the saws.
U do get a different type of electric log splitter think either dynamic/kinetic force they use so more speed than force, like all these thins looks great in the clip but u look at the wood and all lovely straight grained stuff, anything looks good in that.
Honestly spend 40 quid on a fiskars axe some of the best money i've ever spent. Just completley effortless to swing, i can swing it for an 1hr or 2 and not even get up a sweat, it so good/bad its almost took the work/fitness element out off it.
Not a lot of cash to spend and u might find out u don't even need a splitter after all
Aye the tyre is a brilliant idea be using them for a while makes a massive difference
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