I finally got a Wood splitter

I think we bought it in 2009? went halves with a friend. Figure between the two of us 6-8 cords/yr. I use it a lot more than he does

 

94BULLITT, post a video of it splitting! I'm curious to see how she does, too.

 

Nice looking splitter!!

 

It is starting to earns its keep. It needs to make some money.

Thanks.

Thanks, I made a video of it today. I'm not sure how it turned out. If it is good I'll put it on youtube. The more I use it the more I like it.

 

So far the splitter itself is doing good. Last night the tongue broke off The video explains it.







I was going to make a video of it last night but my battery on my phone went dead

Here is what was split last night in 7/10 of an hour.





We used it some more tonight. It ran out of of gas so we stopped. We put another 7/10th on it for a total of 3.1hrs now. It was filled with gas at 1.1hrs so it used about a 1/2 a gallon an hour. I tried making a couple of videos of it in action tonight. I am uploading them now. Hopefully they turned out good.

 

Here is a video of it in action.

 

Nice
You can get really productive with two guys

 

Just be careful of your hand placement.
keep your hands off the ends of the log and the sides, hold it from the top and release as soon as the wedge has a hold.
When we run tandem one guy is splitting smaller stuff, sliding and quartering in two strokes, with other guy feeding and off loading - I don't get down with sticking my hands around someone else operating, no matter how much trust I have in them.
You might think about an offloading table(maybe something for your tractor forks) to give you a place to set the half of big rounds while you whittle down the far half (you've already figured the flip and other side split for the big rounds)

 

one more tip..
instead of moving the halves side to side work each one on both directions side to side - when I'm running solo with stuff that won't quarter/third pieced back together that's how I do it

 

what make model is your splitter?

 

looks like it's doing a great job you guys made a lot of splits there in a very short time

 

So, the tongue broke off. I'll need to watch the video, but if that's the worst, that's not bad and easy to fix.

 

Powerhorse dualsplitter 20T by Northern Tool - it appears they have discontinued it
it has a bean within a beam and extends out the back, when I get some time I'll post some pics of differences....can't guarantee a video(wireless IP)

 

They still have the manuals for it

 

maybe they didn't sell enough of them? no idea
I just googled it when this thread came up and am astounded that this little packaged splitter is no longer sold by them.
Must have been all those milkcrate users

 

I think those are a cool style , small foot print , no tires in the way , definitely fast enough .
If I didn't want a vertical in the future , I'd buy one of that type

 

This splitter really shines with two people. We split a good size pile last night.

I'm careful and keep my hands from pinch points. What I started doing after I made the videos was split in half then lay one half back on the pile so my dad did not have to hold a big piece. I was thinking about a log table extension. So for I have been pulling the splitter with the BX and it does not have a loader.

That is what we were initially doing. Moving one piece from end to end seems to work best for me. While you have your hand on the split moving it out of the way why not move it to the other end instead of moving it out of the way and picking up another piece.

It will be an easy fix but I should not have to fix it since it is under warranty. I also wanted to document the problem with HF in case I have any other problems.

Thanks.

They could upgrade to a bar stool

 

Here is the other video from a different angle.

 

94BULLITT wasn't trying to be the nancy on your hand placement.
Seriously having your hand under the split, is a bad idea, the stuff you're splitting appears straight grained, if that wedge catches a good knot I've seen it slap the side of the split into the table so fast - you ain't getting out of the way, especially when she drops down into low gear. Just release your hands from the split and grab the split once the wedge is moving freely again

 

Once the wedge hits the wood my hands are off till it's split.
With my stationary wedge , I stand in front of wedge behind the ram, I have had sugar maple fly off 20 or more feet , how do you deal with that ,on a 2 way splitter