Love mine, Have the 22. Can’t say much bad about it other than it bogs down on some tough to split stuff but mostly that’s knotted whatevers. Locust: hard to even say the dulling of chains is bad. Means your pick up is gonna burn like hellfire. I hope to stumble on more. Not that I’m immediately running out but it’s getting harder to find or source out. Have to look for someone who’s getting rid of it and they’ve run out of options and need space for another project. It kinda hurt to give it away too but likely what went out has come around in my scrounges somewhat recently.
I’m surprised your 35 didn’t come with one. Comes standard with the 28. A single and 4 way. I’d say a call should work. Hopefully they have one for the 35. May be different. PS. I tore mine to shreds.
Started stacking today. The new plastic pallets are very slippery on top. Was very worried a crib would eventually get slid right off the end of the pallet. Decided to use a wooden pallet on the end and also decided to use some of those fence post thingamajiggies my sister had bought. Dammit. All done with the height, beginning to move forward and whoosh, down it goes. No more fence posts for me
I have a few splits of locust in my stacks. One small piece I’ve had for about 2 or 3 yrs which is short and has sat in the sun on top of the stack. I figured that would be a good piece to tell me how low my moisture content gets in my area for firewood. I split it and took reading 16 percent. I’m in southern CT. Makes me wonder when I hear about single digit MC readings.
thanks for clarifying that Joe. I often wondered what they are called! I thought they were doohickies. All kidding aside, they do have a name and ive heard it mentioned on here, but cant remember to save my life! Never been a big fan of cribbing for that reason. What are your thoughts on the locust as far as splitting? Any knots in those big ones?
They are called T-post. They don't usually fall over, if driven 16-18" deep. I've had some that were hard for the FEL on the tractor to pull up.
doohickies are used only in plumbing and electrical. It wasn’t the cribbing that tipped over. That was the solution to the problem. Locust splits up easy. Weren’t very many knots in these logs. A little twisty grain, not the prettiest splits which is why I thought I’d try the T-posts instead of cribbing. I learned recently on here the little trick of driving them inside the first board of the pallet for additional support. Seems I misjudged the condition of that first board. A little too rotten to take the pressure and snapped. As T Jeff mentioned I also didn’t drive them deep enough. Would have been ok if the board didn’t snap. I think those T posts also come in different grades. Seen some nice heavy ones in my time. Think sis must’ve bought these at Home Depot. Noticed a couple in the pile that had folded right over from my sisters previous exploits. Gonna try to add another to the back stack tomorrow and drive one down further for more support. See if I can Save that one instead of restacking.
Gave up on em. Cut Cedar trees & make posts out of those. Bury em 2' & they don't give. 10"-12" at the base works best. I stack 6' high against them & they've stood for years.
I hadn’t heard that. I drove by the factory about a week and a half ago. They were still very much up and running.
Yep, looked it up. It’s true. No idea if they can come out of it. Problem getting the Chinese parts and I read something about the Chinese and fraudulent payments. Frictionless World, LLC Bankruptcy (1:19-bk-18459), Colorado Bankruptcy Court
That’s weird. They seem to still be operating like usual. Maybe they are just going to try to work through it and keep operating?
Don’t know much about bankruptcy law but that’s pretty much chapter 11 to a tee. They are trying to work through their difficulties instead of closing the doors. Court will mandate a payback scenario and probably give them some leeway to breathe a bit, get caught up financially from whatever problem they had/have. I’m betting they’re getting spotty quality on parts. People like me who are willing to install their own parts aren’t a big deal. Parts are cheap. It’s warranty work that can hurt. When mine first blew they couldn’t find anyone in the state of Ct willing to work on it. When I offered to do it they were ecstatic. Didn’t think they’d want me to do my own warranty work but they loved it LOL. From there out it was almost a weekly thing. Bout three weeks ago there was a new 35 ton for sale on FB. The butt plate/shoe whatever it’s called was broken right off the ibeam. Bad welds. Most likely under warranty and the guy is getting a new replacement, selling the old one. Just need to weld it back up. I’ve rewelded the rails on the ibeam too. Had one pop loose about 3 months ago. if they have no dealers willing to do service work. The owner is not obligated to do the work. If they want to honor the warranty they probably replace the entire machine. Do they want the old one back? Probably not. They are not selling used or refurbished and it may cost more to ship back than it’s worth. Costly way to do business. just thinking out loud here.
That all makes sense to me. When I drove by the other day, they had rows of splitters, snowblowers etc out front. Customers milling about. Tractor trailers being loaded and unloaded. Hopefully they can get dialed back in better than before and keep operating.
