What splitter do you have? Post pic

Dave: Looking good. It looks like you just have the angle iron tack welded to your wedge. If you haven't welded the angle iron solidly yet. I would recommend you take them off & try using it without them. I believe you will be happy with the way it splits. Then if down the road you decide to try a 4 way wedge, you will have several options available to you.

 

Nice, living my dream!

Quesiton, when you moved, did you bring/move your split wood as well? Always wondered if I ever move, will I bring the wood with me.... ?

And, it looks like you split the wood too much, you need bigger splits for the PH!

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When we moved I had already burned the last of my wood.. It was up to the new owner to get wood for the EKO 60 gasification boiler... That wood was split small so it was very dry for the gasification boiler. If your wood wasn't down below 20% , you were screwed! Yes I know now the PH like the big wood.. I have some decent size wood for that , but I will split my wood for the year after next even bigger. Next years wood is already split.. Some small some bigger, kind of a mix.. Pictures of the boiler with 1000 gallons of thermal storage plus another 600 in the basement that heated my log home with radiant heat...New owners got a sweet set up without lifting a finger.. 35x40 ft garage had radiant heat and running hot water as well...

 

Wow, really nice setup!!! How often did you have to load that boiler?

 

About twice a day I would fill the stove.... I was in the learning stages of the whole thing.. I could have my water storage temps to 185-190, have the boiler go out. Then let my water temps get down to 135 before starting the boiler again.. I could go 12 hrs with no fire easy. But then it would take a while to heat all the refractory up in the boiler again, so was I wasting heat running my system that way? A lot pf people burned their system this way.. I could use a low water temp because of radiant heat.. I then started just keeping my water temps up and would top the heat when it dropped just 5-10 degrees.. That seem to work well too... My log home facing south with all the glass would gain 5-8 dgrees everyday during the winter months through solar gain, no matter how cold it was out.. just by facing it south... My heat would be off by 10 am and never come on until 7 pm... At times around 5 pm I would turn the radiant heat on just so it would catch up by 7 if it was bitter cold out... Now I love a simple wood stove again in our farmhouse.. Power goes out , no circulators to have to keep running with a generator.. Believe me,, simple is the way to go.... The only good thing was walking into the warm wood boiler building when it was 10 degrees out with a 20 mph wind to reload the stove.

 

I like that setup!!!
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But very well thought out!!!

 

Wood stoves are nice eh? Sorta like a friend in the room with ya...
But that boiler was very cool...
I guess a man could use both...

 

Only good thing about the boiler was the mess was outside.. but, I keep my hearth swept up now and really no mess inside.. I probably had 20K tied up into the boiler , storage, building, etc.. I didn't mind that , but what I didn't realize was a year later we would be selling the place to buy our farm... If I knew that I would have left the simple outside wood boiler in place and not made the move for a cleaner boiler system.. I'm sticking with the simple wood stove in the house... No water to worry about freezing, etc.. Besides now I can watch my fire too

 

MTD 27-ton Craigslist find, $500 bucks. It has paid for itself a few times over.

 

Finally had time to post up a photo of my "new" 26 Ton/8HP "Wood*General" splitter that I got from my sister. Its seen a lot of use but still runs decent. I also scored a nice 038 Mag from her. I'm set to go now, I even have milk crates too! I understand they are required ergonomic equipment!

 

Thanks Dave... Took 20 years of working to finally build that, cleared the whole thing by hand with my Stihl saw, the wife dragged all the brush to the wood line... That was a summers job.. We had 10 acres and saw a farm house 10 miles from us for sale with 96 acres.. That was 8 years after we built this... We made money on the place and moved.. The wife always wanted an old Farm house... The owners we bought from spent 23 years redoing the place... So it was a no brainer to buy it with the property.. The log home was great! 60 gallons and three coats on the outside when we first had it built, Lots of work and we scrubbed all the logs inside with water and Clorox and mason sponges, rinsed and then coated.. We worked our butts off ... If we could have had it here it would have been great.. Now we are back to the 1840's but it's all good.. Love keeping it simple with a few woodstoves... Funny , anyone who came to the cabin for the first time would all do the same thing,, look up at the 22ft high cathedral ceiling and see that big roof system and just say WOW!.

 

Here's my little 15 ton Speeco. On year 5 of splitting 99% of what I throw at it. The best part for me is it is light enough I can move it around the yard by myself.

 

I've always liked our little old splitter for the same reason. That thing has split a lot of wood over its career.

 

Does make it nice that you can move your splitter by hand... My SuperSplit allows me to do the same, just hand wheel it in and out of my garage.. Saves hooking and unhooking to the tow vehicle, plus you can park it in some tight areas as well.. Before I split into a wagon, I use to just make a big pile of splits on the ground, then come around front and just wheel my splitter back another 4-5 ft... by hand... worked out great..