Welcome to the forum Jose! Looks like you are off to a good start. Here is some reading material you might be interested in: Primer on Woodburning by Backwoods Savage | Firewood Hoarders Club
Jose Estrada you might notice that threads can get a little side tracked or sometimes go completely off the rails. Seems to happen mostly in the night hours.
Jose, log out and save yourself! It’s a trick. Or next year you’ll be telling us about the 4th saw you just had to have. Along with the new splitting maul, axe, wedges, pickaroon, tongs, chain sharpener, pulpwood hook, peavy, cant hook, pallets, totes, tarps, woodshed, tractor, grapple, trailer, sawbuck, chain saw holder, log marking chalk, dump truck, loggers tape measure, capstan winch, choker chains, ropes, pulleys, and, and, and…. All while you search for that ever so elusive free load of black locust piled up next to the road to be picked up. Just kidding and welcome! PS I want a t shirt too !!! Lenny Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Any tips on how i can get bigger pieces onto the splitter without throwing my back out. I have cut up some larger rounds in half but i still feel worried about moving them upward onto the splitter and holding in position.
You need one of those nifty log lifts on your splitter. Or the one that is like a game skinning gambrel that uses a winch. Someone will probably post more details or pics...
Welcome to the club, Jose Estrada Lots of great folks here sharing knowledge and humor. There are quite a few members in your state. Very impressive start you have going. We're down south, but we still burn and sell wood. Maybe this idea will help you on the big rounds/splitter problem. We built ramps to roll the rounds up to the splitter. We added support legs under the splitter table and under the middle of the ramps. Really speeds up the process, holds a lot of wood. Those bigger rounds are close to 24-26". Load of smaller rounds, night working Some of the bigger rounds we have rolled up the ramps. 28-30" is about as big as I want to handle whole. Bigger than that get quartered and stacked Or halved and use the tractor. This 1 was 43"...
Upper Bucks Co. here. My back hurts looking at that low-rider splitter, but I bet it stores real easy.
I looked up that Wen splitter and it is only rated by the manufacturer for up to a 10" round. If you're trying to split larger rounds and using the stand that comes with the splitter, I would be careful as it looks like it would tip over easily. If you're splitting without the stand (low to the ground), it probably isn't as bad. I think there is only so much you can do with that splitter due to no cradle or table to support larger rounds. As others have said, you can use a ramp but based off the size of the splitter, larger rounds will be prone to rolling off. You may be better off just noodling larger rounds down to make splits more manageable (and that is coming from someone who hates noodling rounds). You're just limited based off the splitter (looks like a decent splitter for the average homeowner but not designed for heavy use/large rounds). In the low position, you could build something on both sides of the splitter to the height of the splitter beam (out of cinder blocks, scrap lumber, etc.) and that would give you some additional stability so you could roll larger rounds up a ramp to the splitter. If you have a pickup, you could use a ramp (or hoist/block & tackle) to get rounds into the bed of the truck. Then using the splitter in the raised position, you could position the splitter next to the tailgate and carefully roll the rounds from the truck bed onto the splitter (depends on the height of the truck bed obviously as compared to the height of the splitter...a trailer could work here as well).
