Has anyone noticed what works for others is not best for them?

So side to side loading? Ever sit and stare at the ends like a crazed lunatic because you love burning wood so much? LOLOL. I know. I'm an idiot. I can't help it. I only noticed because some nights I stare so long that I figure... wait... there is room for one more small round in there! (No sizzle whatsoever when initially loading...) So, I go back to the pile and find the perfect small piece to the puzzle and wedge it in. While doing so, I hear a faint sizzle.... and find the source. Once I slam the door shut, I examine the edge of the lowest most splits above the coals and what do you know... a tiny boil...

 

Yup, you a nut!
Nah, sometimes I lay on the floor and watch it for a while after lighting up...gotta turn it down at some point anyway, might as well get some fire tv in.
It usually gets shorts n nuglies, so loaded N/S more than E/W...I wish it were deeper so it would be easier to go either way, but no room for that, so good enough...

 

Sure is nice not having the chore of crawling out of the sack in the middle of the night to fire up the stove, no?

 

Really? Is the stove the only thing you are "lighting up?"

 

This might ruffle a few feathers, but watching the contortions people go through with "bucking racks".

Good God man it is a log, cut into rounds, heave in truck, haul home, then split and stack immediatly off the splitter.

 

How many pairs of gloves does a fella need?

 

Moreteen

 

Well I am pretty fond of dry ones. The wood contraption is the glove dryer. I need to fab up a metal one but would have to drill a hole in the splitter.

I think on the day that was taken, the warmer gloves were just too much and I was shedding them like snake skin.

 

Gotcha! I’m also curious about the insulation on the tank?

 

IIRC, he doesn't run it WOT so his fluid does not get very warm. He does that to help keep fluid temps up.

 

I haven't found out the answer to that yet.

But I can tell you how many pairs of gloves it takes to have a sweetheart comment about "having too many."

 

The only issue with the splitter is what JRHAWK9 stated.

I am a one man band and the splitter is not really used effciently as it would take 3 people to fully utilize the speed and capabilities.

A round is pulled off the stack, split and then immediatly restacked to season. Because of this the splitter runs about 2/3rds of the time doing nothing and doesn't generate heat.

The splitter also has a dump valve so there are two hoses for the fluid to get back to the in tank . The builder explained, 22GPM pump takes about 5 gallons to fill the cylinder, but the large rod only takes about 2 gallons to pull back in, thus the retract stroke is about 50GPM. The dump valves goes back to the 125 GPM filter. The tank has 3 baffles to help cool, and all fluid has to go under the baffles aiding in further cooling. Restriction running through the valves generates a LOT of heat on most splitters.

It also holds 35 gallons of fluid. Draining some would aid in heating it up more. I have 3 two hundred watt magnetic heaters under it I plug in 3 hours before use to pre heat.

The hottest the fluid ever got was 130 degrees running on a day that was about 95 degrees.