We finally got some room cleared for more pallets and started splitting more wood. This stuff has been sitting for a few years and has some fungus on it but the inside looks ok. Not great wood, but lots of it. I didn’t realize it had been sitting so long or I would have done it up sooner. We started running the splitter and it was moving faster than I remembered. I looked at the pump and sure nuff, it’s bigger than I remembered. It’s listed as 14.1 gpm, but the two stages are 13/1.8, so it should be 14.8 gpm total. Either way that puppy was movin’. We split a nice pile in the 10-15 minutes we had before dark. Tomorrow will be stacking and more splitting. There’s probably 8 cord of that older maple to split up and maybe a cord and a half of ash on the trailer. Then we can get to the main pile of probably 30-40 cord. I have been adding loads to it for a while and can’t pile it any higher or push it back any more with the bobcat. It has to go. I will try to get some pics/video tomorrow. I do need to put a lighter spring in the splitter valve, because it is quite difficult to hold the lever in the “go” position.
I often question if I'm either slower than I remembered or the splitter is running exceptionally well.
I got the spring replaced. It’s a night and day difference with the effort required to move the lever. It required serious effort to move before, probably because of some lawyer… I can easily move it with a finger tip now. The grease in the detent was some china junk and looked dirty, so I cleaned it out and put some hd red tacky grease in it. I’m happy. The black spring is the old one and the silver spring is the new one. Now for some more splitting.
