Wood splitters!

[Mace Canute]

Alright...who thinks they could bring themselves to try to match these guys?

LiveLeak.com - One **** of a fast hand log splitter

This guy apparently didn't quite measure up...(warning: graphic injury)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=776_1276732262

 

[jimmyj]

I started to watch it but chickened out. Yikes!

 

[LD1]

WOW:confused2:

 

[Johndeere3720]

Wow! They must sell wood commercially.

 

[MillWeld]

I've split by hand for 35+ years (but not as fast as the guys in the 1st video) but now use a hydraulic splitter. Body parts are awfully close to the log during hydraulic splitting so I have wondered if there have been reported instances of a log splitting apart violently causing injury. Never heard of it or experienced it but just wondering. Any warnings on this?
Bob

 

[DAY]

Not as dangerous as it looks- "practice makes perfect".
For some really scary videos, google "Wood shingle sawing", and you will see some set-ups that are definitely NOT OSHA approved!

 

[neilandy]

Alright...who thinks they could bring themselves to try to match these guys?

LiveLeak.com - One **** of a fast hand log splitter

:shocked:

Before going to splitting the wood we should better aware for the safety

 

[flyingcow]

Not as dangerous as it looks- "practice makes perfect".
For some really scary videos, google "Wood shingle sawing", and you will see some set-ups that are definitely NOT OSHA approved!

Seen a few ole' timers that did that for a living. Not a one of them had all 10 fingers. When I travel over to New Brunswick Canada, not uncommon to see old fellers with missing digits. Used to be alot of shingle mills over there.

 

[flyingcow]

I'd also like to see these guys split a good piece of twisted yellow birch by hand. The variety we have up here is nasty.

 

[deereman75]

Not as dangerous as it looks- "practice makes perfect".
For some really scary videos, google "Wood shingle sawing", and you will see some set-ups that are definitely NOT OSHA approved!

I saw a shingle mill one tv one time, either dirty jobs, or ed's up. It was one of the most dangerous machines I have ever seen. The #1 might go to a 100+ year old sawmill planer, with all the cutter heads, and gears, and belts open. (I have been given the chance to use the sawmill planer, I havnt said yes... so far...)

 

[DAY]

"Seen a few ole' timers that did that for a living. Not a one of them had all 10 fingers."
As for missing digits, if you ever attended a farm auction, it is hard to find very many older farmers with all their parts. Corn pickers being the major amputator.

And, yes,deereman75, that's the one I had in mind, when I went a googling! (I think was on 'This Old House', many years ago.

 

[tuerdon]

Never, and I repeat NEVER have your hand on top of the log when you are splitting with an axe, and NEVER have your hand on the end of a log when using a hydraulic splitter.

 

[Don87]

My FIL had a splitter like this one.

My son was using it in the vertical position as shown.

He had his hand on the side of the log when it exploded, taking off the end of his middle finger at the first knuckle.

Those brackets can be more dangerous than the 'wedge' itself, because the danger isn't apparent.

 

[arrow]

Haa...for that wood I wouldn't even need the axe.