Timber Champ Kinetic Electric 7 ton splitter

So far I'm really liking mine . I've split around 90 cu ft so far with mine. Very impressed considering how small and quiet it is. .
I did get frustrated with the safety lever and wired it open. . Now on the larger rounds I let 1 half fall away . hand onto the other half and honestly can turn it into 3 pieces of wood as fast as I could using 1 lick each with an ax. . As the arm returns I slide the piece back , position it and pull the lever. Bang it's split . the biggest wood I've had gave 4 split pieces per half round . It took maybe 5 seconds maybe 10 seconds to make 4 split pieces.
I set it up on a work wood box/platform today. Which makes EVERYTHING much better . I'm VERY impressed So far.

 

Nice work man. Those Kinetic splitters are impressive. How about a video of it in action?

 

I would love to have a kinetic splitter to compliment my hydraulic splitter. I do have 2 saws so who says a man can't have 2 splitters?

 

I love my Dr power rapid fire splitter, I have it for about 5 years and still runs extremely well, only issue I had was the tires,

 

Wow.....these are really cool.
I found this:

 

I had my wife take a video of me splitting with it. I need to figure out how to upload and post it . Some may not like having the safety off . But it's not a problem for me . And it makes it so the work gets a nice fast flow to it. It makes it so splitting wood is mostly about moving wood rather than the actual splitting.
I am splitting relatively easy to split wood by and large. However I have split some 8" tight knarly black spruce that is very stringy and dense ring growth. . it took 2 hits for those but was still faster much faster than the 27 ton hydraulic I used a couple years ago.

 

Just upload the video to youtube and copy and paste the link here.

 

I see that Dr has a 10 ton electric kinetic DR RapidFire Flywheel Log Splitter
For a pretty good price. But. And this is pretty important imo. Its max log length is 16" why they would do that I don't know . It's not all that easy to keep firewood EXACTLY a certain length. I guess if someone burned 14" wood there would be enough fudge room . the extra 3 ton of force over the Champ is WAY off set by only being able to split short wood. .

 

I see that Dr has a 10 ton electric kinetic DR RapidFire Flywheel Log Splitter
For a pretty good price. But. And this is pretty important imo. Its max log length is 16" why they would do that I don't know . It's not all that easy to keep firewood EXACTLY a certain length. I guess if someone burned 14" wood there would be enough fudge room . the extra 3 ton of force over the Champ is WAY off set by only being able to split short wood. .

 

16 inch maximum length that's crazy why would they build it that way

 

The guy using it in the link looks pretty happy.

 

I split another half cord today with the Timber Champ. Still works Great. In a while I'm going to build a simple chute to see if it will split AND push a chute full of wood. Here's hoping !

 

Biggest diameter so far . took 2 hits of the rack to split it then 1 more when I turned it over

 

What I got done today. It Sure is handy to have the splitter in the woodshed . I split and stacks least half of it when it gets through the wedge. Saves at least 1 handling. Which saves a lot of time and effort.

 

I got to thinking I must have had a higher volume than I thot when I posted the above . So first thing this morning I scaled with a tape what I split and stacked yesterday. Came out to 92 cubic feet. Made me feel better. Still got a long way to go before before the shed it full !

 

It needs a work table so none of the splits fall to the ground. Then you can stack all of it from the splitter. Your back will thank you.

 

It will push a chute full of wood. The chute needs to be robust or it will break.

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Just realise that the splitter is fast and you won't have time to pull your hand out of the way.