I Bit the Bullet.....

[scott_vt]

Evenin Guys,
I know how everyone on TBN has heard me brag about how I split my wood by hand with my trusty 8 lb maul ! Well I have been secretly waiting for a good deal on a used splitter and one finally came !
My buddy works part time down at Home Depot and every now and then they sell their rental units ! He called me up saturday and said they have a 25 ton unit with a 8 hp Honda motor thats going for $800. So I went down to look and being the thrifty guy I am I had a 10% off coupon also ao I got me a new to me splitter for $720 !

Im driving home from work and notice someone had cut an old maple tree down not far from me all real knarly stuff I would normally not bother with but het I got a splitter now !!! It works great ! Just had to share. Im not throwing the maul away yet, you never now, I may need a backup !

 

[cp1969]

Nice tractor...is that a Cub or an "A"? Nice splitter, too.

 

[mjarrels]

Evening Scotty,

Nice spitter and tractor... you would probably hate me for what I just did on my Farmall C, I duct taped the genny belt to get me by for another year! Belt is pretty much toast.

mark

 

[Youare]

Nice score on the splitter !

The question you will be asking yourself is why didn't I do this a long time ago. I've been heating the house with just wood for the last 33 heating seasons, in New Hampshire the heating season lasts a while. Two years ago I purchased a wood splitter.

I liked to split wood with a maul one can take the frustrations of the day out on the wood pile and accomplish quite a bit. Once I started using the splitter I really like to split wood now. You will too I bet.

Just remember to keep your hands and the hands of any one helping you out of the way.

Randy

 

[CATMAN]

You might want to repack those wheel bearings on the splitter if you take it anywhere. I doubt that the rental yard has ever touched them since new. Just a thought.

 

[_RaT_]

Does that splitter go vertical as well? Thats a decent lift height.

Great looking yard and tractor.

 

[Thomas]

When the pic appear I said WHAT no snow on the ground,than it hit me where you were posting from Scotty.

Nice purchase,and as handy as you are should last life time.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

I went through the "I don't need no stinkin' splitter" phase. Then I got older.... Now I'm going through the "I'm tired of hoisting logs up on the splitter" phase. It never ends.

Ya done good Scotty! That's less than half the price of a new splitter.

Oh yeah, the "Binder" looks mighty fine too!

 

[scott_vt]

Mornin Guys,
Yep Im really happy with this splitter so far ! Gotta chance to run some knotted up old maple through it last night and it sure beats using a wedge and sledge hammer !

CP, the tractor is a 49 Farmall Super A

Mark, I wouldnt hate you for using duct tape, but if I was there I would offer to do it right !

Catman, Im thinkin bearing buddies !

RaT, yes this puppy goes vertical also for those big old bones !

Thomas, yep your right Ct !

Bill, I thought I would never be doin this but the old back is almost 56 !

BTW the guy told me there are only about 80 rental hours on this unit !

 

[chadincolo]

Good splitter, Speeco model LS401118. Link to manual below if you didn't get one.

http://speeco.com/pdfmanuals/logsplittersmanual-b.pdf

 

[WayneB]

I knew you would wimp out and buy a splitter...................that looks great! Only thing I noticed after I got my splitter (yep I told all my friends that I don't need a splitter and the exercise is good for me) was that I was doing more wood every time I went out to split. So it should be easier than splitting by hand, but you will soon find out that you are not pacing yourself properly. Lots of lifting!

By the way I like the looks of the trailer you have behind the super.

Wayne

 

[scott_vt]

I knew you would wimp out and buy a splitter...................that looks great! Only thing I noticed after I got my splitter (yep I told all my friends that I don't need a splitter and the exercise is good for me) was that I was doing more wood every time I went out to split. So it should be easier than splitting by hand, but you will soon find out that you are not pacing yourself properly. Lots of lifting!

By the way I like the looks of the trailer you have behind the super.

Wayne

Mornin Wayne,
Yep, the trailer does double duty, either hauling firewood or hauling my Farmalls ! Your right about the splitter and carrying the firewood, last night I was wrestling the big bones underneath the vertical lig splitter, today Im sore !

 

[EddieWalker]

Congrats Scotty!!

Home Depot does have some great deals from time to time, you just gotta time it just right. Looks like you did just that!! $720 for a 25 ton log splitter and a Honda engine sounds like a steal.

I don't remember seeing your trailer before. It looks like an antique just like the tractor!!! Very cool.

Eddie

 

[WayneB]

Mornin Wayne,
Yep, the trailer does double duty, either hauling firewood or hauling my Farmalls ! Your right about the splitter and carrying the firewood, last night I was wrestling the big bones underneath the vertical lig splitter, today Im sore !

After I got mine I was forced to bring the wife out and show her how great this thing works!

For some reason she didn't get as excited as I did. All of the wood I split this past winter will not be used for about a 1 1/2! I've noticed all of the wood we are burning now isn't split as small as the stuff I did with the splitter!

 

[escavader]

EVENING SCOTT,
What did you go and do a thing like that for? I told you to drive up and borrow mine.You probably could drive to MAINE and back for a couple hundred,wouldnt that be a better bargain?
I think I musta stuck this idea in your head,about a splitter,when i showed the pics of mine last week,serves you right,ive been dreaming of a little farmall tractor to fix up,after drooling over your pics.
I think you oughta get another farmall to fix up to pull the splitter around the place.You can call the the twinshow about a take away belt ,run off the farmall,to carry the split pieces right up in the trailer,would be a fun project.
SERIOUSLY though good splitter nice deal .cant wait to see the mods you do to it
If you retire that maul youll have to join a gym to stay in shape
ALAN

 

[Ductape]

Scotty...... you are starting to show your age !!

I remember when i was a teenager.... my dad got his first splitter to handle every winter's firewood. That is what convinced me to buy my own splitter when i started burning wood a few years back. BTW ..... my dads splitter was me ! Congrats ! I will wager the maul won't get alot of use anymore.

 

[3RRL]

Scotty,
I'm jealous man!
Nice grab on the splitter. That one looks like it's unstoppable and very beefy.

 

[scott_vt]

I don't remember seeing your trailer before. It looks like an antique just like the tractor!!! Very cool.

Eddie

Mornin Eddie,
Yeah, the operator is an antique too !

Chad,
Thanks for the link ! I did get the manual but I will file that link away !

Alan,
Yep,I have one Farmall for the trailer and one for the splitter !

Ductape,
Im thinkin the splitter may be in semi-retirement !

Rob,
Well I could have made one like you would do, but by the time I finish buying all the parts, I dont think I would have saved much ! Sometimes its easier this way !

 

[sanmigmike]

Someone beat me to it, that is a beauty in the background! Once in a while I do some hand splitting but just to make me happy I have a splitter that doesn't kill me, I will admit that some of the stuff is getting to the point that I have to cut in two to get it up to the splitter so I am getting tired of lifting wood up to it!