There's a good thread on Texasbowhunter about these electric splitters. Consensus was that they get the job done well with a few small modifications for convenience.
There's some great ideas for build your own wood splitters on YouTube.
This is one of my favorites.
YouTube has been a great resource for Darwinian rooted observational learning.
Whenever I get frustrated about OSHA requirements, permits, and general oversight, I just hit up the DIY pages on YouTube for my "ah yes, this is why we have these" moment.
As for the electric splitter, it might work for carefully selected logs. I know for my home made gas log splitter, I have put in knotty live oak stumps at 22" across and it gets to a point where the wedge is just cutting across the grain to rip it in half. It takes a bit of pressure to do that.
Remember that you can split a 48" log with a 1/2 HP motor if your pump and hydraulics are sound. It won't be fast but it will do it. Hydraulics are wonderful.
Rent one from a more commercial style renting company (for construction). Rent it on a Friday for 1 day and sense they are not open on the weekend you get it till Monday!
From the crocs with socks, the G UNIT shirt, and the WAAAY overbuilt log splitter, I would venture to guess that this guy has eaten his fait share of questionable roadkill and thinks women still shouldn't be able to vote
We've definitely split bigger than 10, but I doubt we've split a 24. The bigger ones you just usually have to turn over and get it from both sides. It's not going to do a big, old oak from top to bottom. We usually get to about 15-18" and anything bigger than that it goes to the burn pile or we split in half with an ax and then run the halves through the splitter.
I think it is just me, but a machine with no guards requiring fractional second timing and the need to jump out of the way of the process seems a tad bit dangerous.
Am I the only one that actually likes splitting wood with a maul?
probably
I spent my teenage years splitting wood that way. The fireplace in our house had a heat exchanger and then was ducted into the hvac system. We never ran the gas furnace. Dad had no reason to buy a wood splitter when he had a teenage son.
There's some great ideas for build your own wood splitters on YouTube.
This is one of my favorites.
YouTube has been a great resource for Darwinian rooted observational learning.
Whenever I get frustrated about OSHA requirements, permits, and general oversight, I just hit up the DIY pages on YouTube for my "ah yes, this is why we have these" moment.
I might be interested in buying this thing from that guy's widow.
You may not be a moron, but some people think you are.
That is definitely a major accident waiting to happen. In his next video, he may be known as Lefty.
Exactly what I was thinking.
I was like… I DO NOT want to watch this guy lose half an arm, but maybe he needs to lose half a finger. He will eventually get too comfortable and lose a hand.
I would at least build me some rails coming off the front so that the thrown pieces wouldn't hit my legs. I damn sure wouldn't be wearing crocs either. That just looks like a cluster waiting to happen. On second thought, I thin I'll just stick to logs about 6-9 inches in diameter that fit in my smoker just fine.
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