If you guys (and gals) enjoyed the thought of an upside down wood splitter, you might like a wood splitter where you NEVER touch the wood...ever. I would like to have one that is for sure. I could put it on my Wallenstein and utilize wood that is uneconomical to harvest now. That is because I am clearing forest land into agriculture (63 acres to do this year alone) and while its easy to put chokers on big trees, the smaller they get, the harder it is to efficiently move them and make money. This machine would allow me to harvest the trees I bulldoze into a pile and burn. The best part starts about 1 minute and 30 seconds into the video, but other then the first 30 seconds, its all pretty interesting (too me anyway). Naarva S23
Interesting tool but it looks slow in processing a small diameter log at several seconds per split. Would it be effective for a large scale clearing job?
Nice! But where's the laser at the end that instantly dries the splits to under 20% MC before it drops into the truck?
The video ended before it showed the machine loading the wood into my stove! I'm old school at heart; watching that reminded me of a Disney cartoon I watched as a child. Amazing what a man and his ox can accomplish!
There are several machines that do what that one will do but I don't know which is best. I can see why you would like to have one.
I would say it is VERY efficient. There is no redundant steps and once the process starts, the tree is converted to usable retail product. You are seeing that process to completion where as with conventional methods there are so many steps, so you miss seeing the inefficiency in each step. Case in point is limbing. This machine is incredibly slow at it, BUT it is doing it as it is cutting the wood to length and splitting it. With a chainsaw you must limb the tree and yet walk back doing nothing in the form of work as you are doing so. Yeah with a tree this size you can run right up the tree and snap off the branches, but that is all you have done too. With this machine you top it off and then swing to the next tree. The size is the issue I think, only 9 inch diameter trees and of course the price tag. Pretty hard to justify $100,000 at $200 a cord.
