Rotory screw log splitter

   / Rotory screw log splitter #21  
If you have a thumb for your back how check out dig drive diy on YouTube, uses a backhoe to split firewood.
Has ANYONE tried splitting a large round just by hitting it with an ax?? Like the guy started with.
I always use an ax and a wedge or ax, wedge, sledge.
Watching that guy just swing an ax and not hit near the same spot twice was painful.
 
   / Rotory screw log splitter #22  
I have Ponderosa pine. Large, ancient pine. We fell, cut, split firewood for the first ten years here. I tried every manual method available to split this pine - no joy. I bought a 25 ton Didier splitter. That, in itself, was enough of a workout.

We liked heating with firewood. What we didn't like - dirt, volcanic ash, bark, bugs. After ten years we went to pellets for ten years. Then we went to electric heat. It's been electric heat for the last 20+ years.
 
   / Rotory screw log splitter #23  
Has ANYONE tried splitting a large round just by hitting it with an ax?? Like the guy started with.
I always use an ax and a wedge or ax, wedge, sledge.
Watching that guy just swing an ax and not hit near the same spot twice was painful.
I gave up any ax, maul, sledge, wedge really quick after 4-5 whacks of wedge it popped back out of a pine round.... Besides I am kind of "old"..... After finding used splitter and replacing motor things got really better....
 
   / Rotory screw log splitter #24  
Used a Sotz monster maul and chainsaw for 25 years before finally getting a hydraulic splitter from Northern Hydraulic. Been a game changer for the past 30+ years on the farm and all the wood burners. Still use a chainsaw on some crotchety rounds. Always looking how to work smarter, longer and faster.

Having FEL ssqa, 3rd function, rotatable cylinder/wedge log splitter for the big stuff I think would be nice for a little tractor. Maybe modify existing log splitter to be switchable? Made to shear small limbs and trees too? Add backhoe QA ears? Many possibilities to try!
 
   / Rotory screw log splitter #25  
I remember those screw splitters from back in the late 60's neighbor had one that he used to put on the rear axle of his IH Scout.
Jack up the rear and block the fronts put it in gear and split wood all day.
Sure seemed nicer then an axe or maul and wedges to me.
 
   / Rotory screw log splitter #26  
I have Ponderosa pine. Large, ancient pine. We fell, cut, split firewood for the first ten years here. I tried every manual method available to split this pine - no joy. I bought a 25 ton Didier splitter. That, in itself, was enough of a workout.

We liked heating with firewood. What we didn't like - dirt, volcanic ash, bark, bugs. After ten years we went to pellets for ten years. Then we went to electric heat. It's been electric heat for the last 20+ years.
We do pellets and a corn mix (corn is free for me). Other choice is propane so pellets are cheaper for us.
 
   / Rotory screw log splitter #27  
We do pellets and a corn mix (corn is free for me). Other choice is propane so pellets are cheaper for us.
Your corn may be cheap but it is not free. Maybe some of the wood out of my forest is close to free but even it is not free.

Unless someone is giving you something for free, free does not exist. If you plant stuff, that has a cost. If you fertilize it, that has cost. If you harvest it, that has cost.

And unless the "free" stuff you have planted/harvested has no market value, you have "lost" the revenue it would have generated.
 
   / Rotory screw log splitter #28  
I remember those screw splitters from back in the late 60's neighbor had one that he used to put on the rear axle of his IH Scout.
Jack up the rear and block the fronts put it in gear and split wood all day.
Sure seemed nicer then an axe or maul and wedges to me.
Not so much the 60s, but I do recall seeing ads for screw splitters in the 80s. Always seemed very dangerous to me.
For many years I split my wood with a sledge and wedges, never had much luck with a maul or ax alone.
About 15 years ago I picked up a hydraulic splitter secondhand and never looked back.
 
   / Rotory screw log splitter #29  
That is pretty trick!!! I like it!! If only for busting up big rounds so they can be handled. I had the opportunity to get a nice load of oak but they were mostly rounds 36" diameter or greater, I don't want to deal with that crap.

BUT!!! This gave me an idea!!!

I know this would be slow but what about finding an old 3 point splitter, adapting it to SSQA putting it on the FEL and running the hydraulics off of your 3rd function to bust those big ol' rounds that you have to noodle to handle. Do it just like this guy, basically pinch the rounds in the 3 point splitter. You would have to be a bit more careful and probably not pick them up while pinched, but I think this would work. Has anyone seen anything like that?
 
   / Rotory screw log splitter #30  
Yeah, like this guy!

 
 

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