Anyone used the Super Splitter?

[DJ4wd]

At the county fair I watched one of these run. Supposedly you can run a cord an hour through it. Thats if your all set up and ready to run. Im thinking about getting one of these next year.

Log Splitter, Wood Splitter - Super Split(R)

The man who owns our trarsh collection company knows an Amish guy who builds and, sells them cheaper though.

 

[hoddykubody]

That type of spitter makes sense to me using I think is centrifical force am I right. Just don't understand how it can be continuous - like it but need help understanding it - hoddykubody

 

[milkman]

That type of spitter makes sense to me using I think is centrifical force am I right. Just don't understand how it can be continuous - like it but need help understanding it - hoddykubody

Here's one of many videos, they sure look impressive.

YouTube - Kick ass log splitter (period)!!!!

 

[Travelover]

That type of spitter makes sense to me using I think is centrifical force am I right. Just don't understand how it can be continuous - like it but need help understanding it - hoddykubody

It uses angular momentum - the energy of the spinning flywheels - to store energy. There is a rack and pinion mechanism to convert the rotational energy of the flywheels to linear energy to push the ram through the log. I'd wonder how many times you can jam the pinion in and out of the rack before something gives.

 

[Reg]

That type of spitter makes sense to me using I think is centrifical force am I right. Just don't understand how it can be continuous - like it but need help understanding it - hoddykubody

Just flywheel stored energy, nothing centripetal about it -
{centrifugal force isn't, but that is an olde lo skool fisix joke}

Anyway, yes, I've used one and liked it a lot.
Nice to have a small quiet engine and not have to wait for any sort of a "return cycle".
It would be hard to bring wood to/from one of these too fast for it to keep up (-:

 

[DJ4wd]

I have a flyer from the guy who builds them, I will try to remember to scan it and Ill post it as soon as I do.
If you watch the second video on the link I posted, it shows a guy really working it with some nice wood.

 

[DJ4wd]

Here it is, the Amish built splitter

 

[aczlan]

How do you back it out of a knotty log when it gets stuck?

Aaron Z

 

[MossRoad]

How do you back it out of a knotty log when it gets stuck?

Aaron Z

Excellent question. :thumbsup:

 

[DJ4wd]

Thats a question I asked, and he pointed out that the wedge is mounted and the ram is the flat part. So you would back it up and slam it again, and again if necessary. He was saying that each hit to the wood would be between 20-50 ton.
He rents it for 24 hrs , but you can only use it 8 of them for $100. Everyone who has one says if you had the wood stacked you could absolutely split a cord an hr, "if you can lift it on the table you can split it."
Log Splitter, Wood Splitter - Super Split(R)
Watch the second video

 

[MossRoad]

Thats a question I asked, and he pointed out that the wedge is mounted and the ram is the flat part. So you would back it up and slam it again, and again if necessary. He was saying that each hit to the wood would be between 20-50 ton.
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That clears some things up. Thanks. :thumbsup:

 

[crazyal]

Maybe when I was 20 but now I find that the extra time it takes to cycle a hydraulic splitter is about the amount of time it takes to put a new log on the splitter. While it splits the log is rest time. I'm not sure if I would want to go faster, lol.

 

[Travelover]

Maybe when I was 20 but now I find that the extra time it takes to cycle a hydraulic splitter is about the amount of time it takes to put a new log on the splitter. While it splits the log is rest time. I'm not sure if I would want to go faster, lol.

Right. Remember when computers were going to make our lives so much easier that we'd have all kinds of leisure time?

 

[DJ4wd]

I hear ya about the spare time, and can see you point about the time it take to load another log lol

Im back in college full time, and Im usally straped for time. Our oldest son is 15 and can easly outwork me now-a-days:thumbsup: Thats the appeal for me, my old splitter was 20 yrs old 10 years ago when it my father in law gave it to me lol.

 

[Reg]

How do you back it out of a knotty log when it gets stuck?

Aaron Z

You don't.

To mis-quote; "The only way out is through".
IOW, hit it another time, or two.
You will get to a spot where the wedge is no longer stuck.

Of course, you COULD just resolve not to try splitting good burls (-:

 

[aczlan]

Of course, you COULD just resolve not to try splitting good burls (-:

Having split many a cord of apple (with LOTS of knots) there are some ones that it is better to back off and try from a different angle. For that reason, the splitter that my dad and the neighbor built has a grab hook welded to the back of the pusher.

Aaron Z

 

[circlelake]

Could faster cause one to be more prone to some type of accident?

 

[DJ4wd]

Could faster cause one to be more prone to some type of accident?

Obsoletely, its very fast, of course half of the speed it the return which isn't anything more than a spring pulling it back. I thought the same thing, and I concluded that it would only take once to keep track of my fingers.

 

[American Bulldog]

\"if you can lift it on the table you can split it."

Well that wouldn't be good enough for me. I expect to be able to split logs that I can't lift up on the table. Not something to worry about with the SS, as there is no log lift available.

 

[eldercaddy]

At the county fair I watched one of these run. Supposedly you can run a cord an hour through it. Thats if your all set up and ready to run. Im thinking about getting one of these next year.

Log Splitter, Wood Splitter - Super Split(R)

The man who owns our trarsh collection company knows an Amish guy who builds and, sells them cheaper though.

Whose that man? He is great. I want to know more about him. :thumbsup: