One Cool Wood Splitter

[GOPAPA]

If only I had ,,had one of these wood cutters years ago when I first started cutting my estimated chords of wood that I have cut in my life time at some where around 500 chords..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1mb_QTfzdo

[mbouse]

what? it doesn't load the furnace?

[ga.spyder]

That is very similar to my splitter..ok,maybe a little quicker.Mine is a 12 lb maul with the optional yellow fiberglass handle.
Craig

[Curly]

I love it
What a great piece of ingenuity. I've just spent the last week felling a dozen or so 60 -90 foot eucalypts that died out in our drought. They were all cut, split and stacked using chainsaw and a hired hydraulic log splitter, but it still took time. This unit would have had it done in no time.
Here's part of our wood supply - I love the smaller stuff, it doesn't have to be split. Eucalypt is a hard wood with very tight often twisted grain, it makes lovely, long-lasting fire-wood but can be a real bugger to split by hand.
What types of trees do you use for firewood in the the Northern Hemisphere?

[mdrburchette]

Wow, awesome! I bet Ron would appreciate that little setup.
We like using red oak or maple for firewood. There are a lot of pine trees in our area but they sure can gum up a fireplace and they pop and spit like mad.

[GOPAPA]

I love it
What a great piece of ingenuity. I've just spent the last week felling a dozen or so 60 -90 foot eucalypts that died out in our drought. They were all cut, split and stacked using chainsaw and a hired hydraulic log splitter, but it still took time. This unit would have had it done in no time.
Here's part of our wood supply - I love the smaller stuff, it doesn't have to be split. Eucalypt is a hard wood with very tight often twisted grain, it makes lovely, long-lasting fire-wood but can be a real bugger to split by hand.
What types of trees do you use for firewood in the the Northern Hemisphere?

Mostly the fire wood is either alder or fir ,,and some maple ..maple is the best for lasting but not so plentiful.. Alder grows fast and is plentiful and I have some of my place and it spits great.. I also use fir or hemlock which I have but only use them when a wind or heavy snow knocks them down.. 2 years ago I cut a fir tree down for a man who was afraid it might fall on his house and I got right about 2 chords out of the one tree,, it was 125 feet long and about 44 inches at the stump..

I hate to say this because as sure as heck after I tell you this,,,my electrric ratres will fo up for bragging ,,LOL,, but my electric rate is about 3.5 cents a kilowatt ,,,so I burn wood now only when we really need the heat..
thx for the picture of thre eucalypt wood ,,never seen it before ,,looks dark LD

[GOPAPA]

Wow, awesome! I bet Ron would appreciate that little setup.
We like using red oak or maple for firewood. There are a lot of pine trees in our area but they sure can gum up a fireplace and they pop and spit like mad.

It only takes logs up to a certain diameter and it looks like you have to precut them into lenghts so the machine can operate correctly .. some of the trees I cut down ,,the machine couldnt pick up a 6-8 foot lenghth of it .. I use a mall and wedges also good excersize to start with ,,but gets old after awhile after many years of doing it.. when I owned my back hoe I would use the bucket and pinch the log up in the air with the hoe so i could stand and cut off chunks ,,miss that set up.. LD