Never again

[4570Man]

Ok wait a minute:
Let me get this straight.
You’re picking up a 36” round with the grapple and rolling the splitter under it?
So your splitter is a pass through or moving wedge horizontal?
What happens to the 125lb splits?
One remains on the beam and the other?

I’ve put pieces that big on my horizontal splitter. One piece stays on the beam. If I’m working with a helper usually they can hold the second piece on the beam and stop it from falling off. If it does fall off then it’s on the opposite side of the lift and I have to use the machine to move them back over to the lift side. If I was working by myself I usually would just noodle a round that size before attempting to split it.

 

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I could have those noodled in 1/4s with my 500i or 372xp in 1 or 2 minutes each. Thats a heck of a lot faster and easier than pounding wedges.

You’re talking red oak?
I owned the 272 with a 24” bar and I could not get through a round like I experienced today noodling in one or two minutes.
Speaking of the 500, we sell those.
It was once a $1399 saw.
I looked at the ones on the shelf yesterday….$1849. Made me blink a bit

 

[4570Man]

You’re talking red oak?
I owned the 272 with a 24” bar and I could not get through a round like I experienced today noodling in one or two minutes.
Speaking of the 500, we sell those.
It was once a $1399 saw.
I looked at the ones on the shelf yesterday….$1849. Made me blink a bit

It would probably take 30 seconds a cut to noodle a round that size with a 500I or equal saw. The saw that made those chips in your first picture was not sharp at all. Here’s a random YouTube video of a 500i noodling a piece of white oak.

 

[CalG]

For the big rounds that get delivered "too often",
I hang the log tongs off the bucket hook, with the wife operating the tractor, I guide her placement on the Horizontal splitter. The splits fall where they will, just pick 'em up with the tongs again.

True there are a lot of splits in a big round, but WHAT A PIA!

The load of logs on the rack out front now are "processer grade" ;-) Nothing over about 16 inches.

I paid extra, I'm getting too old for that crap.

By the way, a log truck load goes for $1050 (7-8 cord, mixed hardwood)
Did you get a discount for taking that big one?

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Been cutting wood for 60 years.
I tried something new today.
Had a load of stems delivered and the driver asked if he could bring me a 40” wide stem, 15’ long and tapering to 32”. I said “sure” since I got this new Champion vert/*** splitter.
So I take to it with my 20” bar and my tried and true Husky 257 and 3 cuts into this thing and I’m out of fuel. Now I have these 3 cookies averaging 36” wide and 16” long and they weigh at least 250 lbs per.
I try to stand them on end so I can roll them to the splitter and have to use a 4’ peavy to get them up.
I get them to the splitter and push them up the splitter foot w the tractor.
The 27 ton splitter easily splits this wood but to wrangle the splits is back breaking.
4 hrs later including bringing these splits to the woodshed to be stacked, I got the stem half done.
Yes it produces a lot of wood but it’s way too much work so, I won’t be doing that again.

I don't blame you, there is to much easier wood to find to split.

 

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For the big rounds that get delivered "too often",
I hang the log tongs off the bucket hook, with the wife operating the tractor, I guide her placement on the Horizontal splitter. The splits fall where they will, just pick 'em up with the tongs again.

True there are a lot of splits in a big round, but WHAT A PIA!

The load of logs on the rack out front now are "processer grade" ;-) Nothing over about 16 inches.

I paid extra, I'm getting too old for that crap.

By the way, a log truck load goes for $1050 (7-8 cord, mixed hardwood)
Did you get a discount for taking that big one?

Well, I know a guy.
He charged me $400 as I help him cut wood but his bunks got caught up in some low hanging trees going down my lane so he’s not gonna come back and I’m not gonna ask another with a full size log truck to come down that lane.
Out here they get $1200 for that size
Ordinarily

 

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I don't blame you, there is to much easier wood to find to split.

Like the wood in the back ground of the two behemoths.

 

[CalG]

Well, I know a guy.
He charged me $400 as I help him cut wood but his bunks got caught up in some low hanging trees going down my lane so he’s not gonna come back and I’m not gonna ask another with a full size log truck to come down that lane.
Out here they get $1200 for that size
Ordinarily

Close enough!

 

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It would probably take 30 seconds a cut to noodle a round that size with a 500I or equal saw. The saw that made those chips in your first picture was not sharp at all. Here’s a random YouTube video of a 500i noodling a piece of white oak.

I’ll tell you what, I’ll test out a noodle with my saw and then a split w my wedge method. Since I don’t have your saws, I’ll work with my saw with its very dull chain.
When a saw is not pressured or levered with the dogs in a big cut and it eases in the cut for hand swap or arm rest, it will make smaller chips.
Doing this with my undersized saw is tiring and the last thing I’d want is a dull chain.
I hit a dirt patch on one of these large stems that I didn’t see and immediately brought in the saw for sharpening.
I am not gonna cope with a dull saw.

 

[CalG]

Well, I know a guy.
He charged me $400 as I help him cut wood but his bunks got caught up in some low hanging trees going down my lane so he’s not gonna come back and I’m not gonna ask another with a full size log truck to come down that lane.
Out here they get $1200 for that size
Ordinarily

The young fellow that lives up the hill a bit on our private drive does a good business with processing fire wood. My guess he has had 15 or more truck and pup trailer loads delivered this year. Always "perfect processor sticks". He drove out twice with his 1 ton dump body making deliveries today.

I can't handle a truck and trailer, No place to turn around, and I run out of space to stack the splits as a full load would be several year's of heat. since I've gone to pellets as background heat.