If you do not have a hydro and the gentleman is reasonable with what he wants for it, I would snap it up! Just be aware that many folks will want to value their trade at retail and your trade at wholesale. Wish you the best of success if you trade.
I have two electric splitters. One at home, one at our cabin..This will be my first gas engine splitter. In the past I have split most everything by hand in the woods but I’m not getting any younger.
Very cool find. I love seeing stuff like that. Had a customer give me an invoice for wood sale from the 1890's. I posted a thread on here at the time.
I sold my good condition (and newly serviced) 10 year old 23 ton Champion to the first guy that looked at it for either $700, or 750 (CRS) a couple years back...I see them for sale for $1000 sometimes, but those seem to linger...the stuff that pops up for $5-600 usually sells pretty quick if its decent. So that gives you an idea anyways...but that's around here, it may be different there?
More or less the same here. I could've had that 25ton Champion for $700 had I dropped everything. We agreed to that price as he had it for $750
They make their own...it is a "inspired by Honda" design (heavily) but not a direct copy, like many of them are, but they work well. I have a Champion genny that I bought used and their tech line was pretty helpful...even sent me a couple warranty parts (and the one piece he said was the single most expensive part on the machine) even though I told them I didn't buy it new...they said the serial number shows less than 1 YO, so still under warranty. I have had a couple of them...one sold to my boss, one to a buddy...they are both happy with them. I would consider Champion to be the "premium" chinese built splitter...one of the very few not built by YTL International. (almost no matter the name that's painted on it...if it's from china, it VERY likely came from YTL)
I think I will offer him 5 face cords of dry split oak for the Champion and see what he says all he can say is yes or no
I was told in the early 2000s that Honda & Subaru both used Gen Sets from Fujikawa Denki and that they were the top shelf for application. When I wrenched on gennies my most common issues were with AVR's. Usually on an off brand Coleman or what have you. They were simpler units back then with no unecessary 'features'. Dependability was the feature. To be honest, when I need a gennie, it's an emergency situation. In emergency I don't want features, I want electricity. The one I own is a 'dumb' unit. Abandoned by former owner and resurrected by me for some elbow grease and a few small parts. I likely would not have one otherwise because I refuse to settle and cannot afford/justify the cost of a new quality unit. Honda, Yamaha, Subaru are the brands the *I trust, or used to. Generac just behind those, but only the bigger units. I do have one of these Winco units stashed away but have never got around to building anything to run it off of. Belt driven, multi directional, 2040 watts continuous duty. Can peddle a bicycle if you want to. All that is required is a pulley with 7/8 shaft and something to spin it. My 'no more gasoline' way to generate electricity. Hope I never need it.
Yup...that's why I have a "2 genny plan"...the lil 2500W inverter genny for its quiet fuel sipping habits for all day "low power" needs, and then the 5000/6500W "dumb brute" genny to run the well pump, etc. The main thing I want with the inverter is maybe some lights, and to run the blower on the Kuuma furnace...since it needs to run pretty much all the time when its burning...it only pulls less than 200W, so no issues there.
We’ve been really really dry here. The charts say we are in a “moderate drought”. Well, we had a gusher overnite and it is still raining my hope is the rain gauge over flows,,,
Wow...that'll surely cause some flooding, no? We had 7.5" in about 3 hours here 2 years ago...that was the worst flooding locally since 1969
No flooding yet. It has been a nice steady rain no T storms. I think most of it is soaking in. I just dumped my rain gauge @ 4.8 inches cuz it’s about to over flow.
Lucky, we've only had a couple of small, under half inch, lately. Western part of the state is as bad as the dust bowl days. Need some nice slow days of steady rain that has a chance to soak in instead of running off.
Like ole , We had a nice steady rain most of the day on Friday. We did not get as much, only 1.09 inches. No puddles in the yard or the ditches. We have not been as dry as other parts of the state. Corn and beans are looking really healthy.
The radar indicates it will stop raining in about 45 minutes. My grand total so far is 5.6 inches. slow steady rain for over 24 hours
