Found this on youtube- The Powder Wedge! It's something that was sold by Sears Roebuck into the early 1900's. Uses a black powder explosion to split logs. I can't see why they took them off the market, looks like a great tool and a great time!
Yeah I posted this a little ways back haha! A little weekend fun, plenty of firewood. Just drink beer AFTER you run out of gunpowder! Funny how it was for CURING TOBACCO, someone from the cigar thread might know about this? yooperdave?
My dad has one of those; it used to belong to my grandfather. I don't think he's ever used it. Looks like fun!
I thought the first "split" was interesting... it made the pcs disappear... ... never seen one of those...
You're right, I don't know about precision splitting, but I'll bet it would come in handy on some stumps! So much more entertaining than a stump grinder...
Interesting and could be fun. I used to work for a man who loved to blow out stumps. He was not happy unless you could use at least 3 sticks of dynamite and usually used more. It was amazing how high stuff would fly. We used to go a long ways back but always worried about his dog and that thing would really get excited and wanted to run up to the hole as quickly as possible to see what it could find. Trouble was getting the dog to hold back!
I liked it. I have never seen one before. You wouldn't get much CSS in a day, but I like things that go boom.
You been holdin out man...that would be a lot of fun at a GTG... Maybe we could finally get Backwoods Savage to split one horizontally!
I have two friends with black powder cannons who burn wood, they would be all over that! I could just see it now.
No chit?! Your last name is Fingerlessjohnson?! What are the odds he would randomly come up with that! Unbelievable! Any relation to the Bigjohnson family? They seem to be pretty popular in the Tshirt biz...
