Scariest log splitter ive seen

[joshuabardwell]

Watching people spilt wood, I am always amazed at they don't organize better.. I would have had a pallet beside the splitter and stacked directly on it, then moved the entire pallet to the woodshed with the forks on my FEL. I try to make as few times handling the wood as possible before the wood goes into the stove. These people were tossing into a pile, some picking up from a pile and tossing to another.

I don't have pallet forks. The best I have done is to load rounds into the bucket, then slide from the bucket onto the splitter, then put the split pieces back into the bucket for transport to stacking. Frankly, it's slower than piling the split wood and transporting it later with a cart, because my bucket isn't that big, and my tractor isn't very nimble, but it's a whole lot less labor. Zero lifting.

 

[TomSeller]

... but it's a whole lot less labor. Zero lifting.

Perfect. Less labor, lifting the better as we get older

 

[sixdogs]

Wow, what a video. One blink and your nickname is "stubs" for the rest of your life. I've split a boatload of wood but that splitter is not for me. I have plans for these digits.

 

[aczlan]

Wow, what a video. One blink and your nickname is "stubs" for the rest of your life. I've split a boatload of wood but that splitter is not for me. I have plans for these digits.

I agree. With a hydraulic splitter, if you let go of the lever. It stops. Not so much with that one...

Aaron Z

 

[ericher69]

I agree. With a hydraulic splitter, if you let go of the lever. It stops. Not so much with that one... Aaron Z

Like I stated earlier; what about on the return cycle?? No need to hold a lever there!

Anyways I responded in the past to just this scenario.

Retracting cylinder (no one holding a lever)
Slippery frozen ground
A slip...
And head in the wrong spot at the wrong time...

 

[aczlan]

Like I stated earlier; what about on the return cycle?? No need to hold a lever there!
Anyways I responded in the past to just this scenario.
Retracting cylinder (no one holding a lever)
Slippery frozen ground
A slip...
And head in the wrong spot at the wrong time...

True, but in the 20+ years I have been doing wood with a hydraulic splitter, I haven't come close to seeing such a scenario. I have seen several instances that would have ended badly if a flywheel splitter had been involved.
So if the probability of a retract side accident is 1 in 10,000, the probability of a accident with a flywheel splitter is probably 1 in 3000... And, an accident similar to a retract side slip and fall accient would always be there with a flywheel splitter vs just the 3-5 seconds that the retract cycle lasts.


Aaron Z

 

[steverino101]

c'mon, nobody wants to get hurt here. you gotta admit, these things look like fun, don't they?

 

[sixdogs]

c'mon, nobody wants to get hurt here. you gotta admit, these things look like fun, don't they?

Depends if someone wants to gamble with their opposing thumbs. Pretty hard to do a lot of things without them. In the event of an errant slip, I suppose they could graft your toe in place of the thumb and you could still split wood.

 

[k0ua]

Depends if someone wants to gamble with their opposing thumbs. Pretty hard to do a lot of things without them. In the event of an errant slip, I suppose they could graft your toe in place of the thumb and you could still split wood.

Yeah but you are gonna have funny looking feet

 

[crazyal]

My neighbor has one of these.

It's amazing to watch. It increments the log out unevenly so you can cut a tapered shake. In the video they have going much slower than it would be in normal use. You feed a cut log in from the back while it's running and then true up the sides of the shakes in the planar bolted to the flywheel. Decades ago a group of farmers bought it and would sent it and a youth or two with it from farm to farm to make shakes. Usually 4 boys would operate it, one using a swing saw to cut the logs to length, one to keep feeding them into the saw, and two more truing up the edges.