The last Barn. (maybe)

[Sawyer Rob]

And then bend over to pick up every single piece that splits off? No thanks.

With the splitter horizontal, it's rare that a split piece falls off onto the ground. You split a round and everything is still right there on the deck, to grab and throw into a bin. Yes it kinda sucks to load huge rounds up onto the beam,

Agreed! So why not take the next step and eliminate having to pick them up off the ground???

It eliminates another back breaking job!

SR

 

[Xfaxman]

Here is a completely different splitter:

 

[EddieWalker]

Funny. I clicked on the video to see the fancy log splitter and then realized it was the Morgans, and all he does it talk and talk and talk, so I turned it off. If he just stopped talking, I might enjoy his videos. He gets some cool stuff that would be interesting. Just too much talking!!!

 

[Xfaxman]

Just too much talking!!!

Push the "M" key on the keyboard or turn the volume down.

Push the "L" key on the keyboard to jump ahead 10 seconds.

You are missing out on a lot of good videos.

 

[EddieWalker]

I keep it on mute and I've tried fast forwarding through all the talking. I do that with a lot of videos. Most YouTube people like to hear themselves talk, but fail to understand that they are not saying anything relevant to the topic of the video. I'm sure there are a lot worse out there, but he's probably the most prolific of them in topics that I find interesting.

 

[ovrszd]

I keep it on mute and I've tried fast forwarding through all the talking. I do that with a lot of videos. Most YouTube people like to hear themselves talk, but fail to understand that they are not saying anything relevant to the topic of the video. I'm sure there are a lot worse out there, but he's probably the most prolific of them in topics that I find interesting.

He's a used car salesman.

 

[deezler]

Agreed! So why not take the next step and eliminate having to pick them up off the ground???

It eliminates another back breaking job!

SR

Your pics are always blocked for me when I'm at work (photobucket?) but I presume that was a pic of using your big trailer to catch cut rounds and easily keep them up at splitter level.

Works for you on a big open farm, but I've got a small acre compound in the woods. I could easily hold my logs on my forks or with my grapple to cut them up above a catch of some kind, but it just seems way too slow to me to only have one log at a time up in the air. Instead I pile up my logs and just attack the pile with a chainsaw when I'm feeling like it. The cut rounds get tossed into IBC totes that I have cut the fronts out of - then when I am splitting, I fork the totes up onto a table next to my splitter. So I only pick the rounds up off the ground once, after the first cut. I do have some ideas for eliminating that step.... but not with a giant trailer, haha.

 

[deezler]

Here is a completely different splitter:

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Lol, ok. Looks nice to use, but the idea of paying more for a log splitter than I would for a car is a bit insane.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

You don't need a "giant" trailer to cut over, I've cut over my snowmobile trailer many times and when you cut in a pile, you have to add all the picking up to the cut time, just to get where you would be if you were cutting over a trailer.

I cut over the same trailer I haul my equipment on too, and sometimes over my little self-unloading trailer that my wife and me was splitting out of, a few says ago,

Folks will go through all kinds of things, spending money to build a "cut table" when they already own a table, also called a trailer.

I work alone a lot, so I have to figure things out, so I work smarter, not harder.

This is ONE time that size doesn't matter! lol

SR

 

[cat fever]

So the way we worked it out, I split and drop pieces in a wheel barrow. My wife picks them up and stacks them. It works really good other than when the stack gets higher than she can reach, then I help. As you can see the splitter is next to the stack so it goes fast.
Here's our progress as of today, and what the weather looked like. We have 4 full rows done.

 

[ovrszd]

Oh my friend, I hope you keep the snow up there for awhile. We shouldn't see any snow like that for another month.....

A good building justifies it's cost on days like this one.

 

[EddieWalker]

Pictures of snow reminds me why I live in Texas!!! Shorts and Tshirt weather here.

 

[gstrom99]

So the way we worked it out, I split and drop pieces in a wheel barrow. My wife picks them up and stacks them. It works really good other than when the stack gets higher than she can reach, then I help. As you can see the splitter is next to the stack so it goes fast.
Here's our progress as of today, and what the weather looked like. We have 4 full rows done.

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When the weather here starts to looks like that, I love seeing my full woodpile(s).

 

[RedBarnDad]

I don't think location dictates a vapor barrier or not as much as usage.

There's a lot of disinformation concerning plastic vapor barriers. The biggest is that the plastic will keep ground water from coming thru the concrete......

If the building is somewhat climate controlled there will be no condensation on the floor. It happens when the floor temp and the air touching the concrete have a large temp difference. Simple condensation.

I'm on my 3rd shop. All three are/were heated in the Winter. None of them have/had a vapor barrier. Only one has insulation under the concrete and the floor is heated. None of them had condensation issues on the concrete.

Interesting. I didn't think of it that way. Makes sense.
I had a garage in MN that so much condensation in the late winter/early spring that I thought I had sprung a week.
No heated garage there, that's for sure...

 

[ovrszd]

Interesting. I didn't think of it that way. Makes sense.
I had a garage in MN that so much condensation in the late winter/early spring that I thought I had sprung a week.
No heated garage there, that's for sure...

I've saw that here too.

 

[cat fever]

Well it's all done. Split and stacked.
Very happy with the Champion 27 ton splitter. It worked flawlessly the whole time.
Time for some side by side riding I think.

 

[ovrszd]

Well it's all done. Split and stacked.
Very happy with the Champion 27 ton splitter. It worked flawlessly the whole time.
Time for some side by side riding I think.


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Good for the Soul.

 

[Thall303]

Is that kindling in the drum?

 

[deezler]

Looks like a top notch rodent habitat, for sure! Lol.

Great work, how much split wood is it in total? 20 face cords?

 

[cat fever]

Is that kindling in the drum?

The stuff in the drums is bark, pieces of wood dirt whatever we swept off the floor. We are going to use it in the raised beds of our greenhouse.


deezler;
I'm guessing about 18 cords of wood.