Finally Bought a Woodsplitter

After all the years of swinging a splitting axe or maul I finally broke down and picked up one of those machines advertised in the CTC flyer. An electric 5 hp Yardworks.
I can't believe this thing splits the way it does. Almost effortlessly on the gnarliest, twisted and knotted jackpine one could ever see. Originally, I was going to toss this tree as it was impossible to split with an axe but this goofy woodsplitter breezed though it without raising a sweat.
I'm sorry I took so long to bust open the wallet. So tomorrow I'm gonna knock down some white birch and poplar just for an excuse to play with the new toy.

Good Morning, yes was the same with me with a Gas Powered Ice Auger, guess us OLD GUYS are a Little on the stubborn side. :) :)

Good Luck splitting and now you"ll have more time for fishing.......

Oh yeah, a splitter is a life saver! I won't do it by hand any more either. It makes splitting wood a breeze!

S.

lol Old guys are definitely stubborn.

I remember my dad scoffed at the very idea of a woodsplitter... until he blew out his shoulder in a bad injury and couldn't swing a maul for 2 years. Got the woodsplitter and cursed himself a little after realising how much more wood he gets done now AND still able to go and tackle a bunch of other tasks the same day.

Noe ask great white for some wood piling tips.. and your good to go

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Originally Posted by topher

Noe ask great white for some wood piling tips.. and your good to go

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Thanks for the idea but I'm not sure my wife and her relatively new car would go for that.

I used to borrow the neighbours when I first started... it was a little hydraulic unit with the overload turned way down to prevent twisting the beam. I think it was originally designed for 5 ton... had the tiniest hydraulic reservoir that would get stinking hot after a session of splitting, and often would jam up on bigger wood. Nothing like pounding a round off the wedge with a sledge hammer...

So I built my own; big reservoir that holds the spring mounts... and a sprung axle for highway towing (it's only been towed once... home from my father's shop 500km's away). Roughly 30ton splitting. It's awesome! Maybe someday I'll build a 4-way wedge for it. You can run it all day in hot summer weather and the reservoir gets "warm". No scalding hot oil.

I remember as a kid when my grandfather approached the roads crew who were widening the backroad he lived on. They were taking down these big oak and maple trees... told them to take the logs up his driveway and dump them behind the barn, instead of hauling to the landfill. They loved the idea, cause it saved them huge amounts of time... he ended up with more wood than he could ever split, and some of those logs were HUGE. I still recall him rolling the round onto the front end loader, lifting it onto his "splitfire" wood splitter (moving wedge that split in both directions). Roll the round onto the splitter, run the wedge through, move the round around, take another slice... multiple slices before it would start losing chunks and becoming more manageable. Pretty sure he split and stacked for 10 years off of that one pile, and heated his house up until he passed away. Extended the roofline of the barn out and built an overhang roughly 12' deep. He had YEARS of wood stockpiled when he passed.

I pulled the trigger on one this year as well. I've now got 9 bush cords cut, split and stacked quicker than I ever thought possible

Ten or so years ago I happened to get lucky and buy an old Super Split kinetic splitter from some inlaws that they didn't use much anymore for $300. Best money I ever spent. Early 70's model that still works amazing and I can still buy parts for, as the core machine hasn't changed. http://www.supersplit.com/operation/index.html

Got to be extra careful though. The whole cycle is 3 seconds. No room for error.

Cheers

Thank god I no longer split wood to heat my home ! lol

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Originally Posted by sawbill

After all the years of swinging a splitting axe or maul I finally broke down and picked up one of those machines advertised in the CTC flyer. An electric 5 hp Yardworks.
I can't believe this thing splits the way it does. Almost effortlessly on the gnarliest, twisted and knotted jackpine one could ever see. Originally, I was going to toss this tree as it was impossible to split with an axe but this goofy woodsplitter breezed though it without raising a sweat.
I'm sorry I took so long to bust open the wallet. So tomorrow I'm gonna knock down some white birch and poplar just for an excuse to play with the new toy.

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We gotta get you on the lever of my 38T with an open stroke time of 3.2 seconds. You'd get great fun outta that. Seriously though I built my first one years ago (around 28) and at the time because of so few around all my work mates were poo pooing it. An old boy told me how smart it was. This old guy never said a king word. When asked why he simply replied "If your back is going to feel broke at days end regardless of splitting method would you like to feel that pain while standing beside a mountain of split wood or a mole hill?"....He weren't wrong. I don't find less effort, but. I do find more reward for the pain

Just got back in from camp and I still really have no idea how that splitter works. I cut a trailer load of birch and oak the other day then yesterday I let my wife split the first few pieces then she wouldn't give it up. I ended up with the dirty end of the stick, having to pick up the split pieces and pile them--the entire trailer load.