Ordered a motorcycle ramp to stage rounds

i was perusing YouTube to see what kind of splitter lift arms might be out there, and saw a guy using a single ATV ramp to roll large rounds up to the splitting spot.

Ordered one today and going to try it. I prefer to split large rounds where they are cut, and really don’t like splitting vertically. My lower back doesn’t like that position.

I will report back how it goes.

 

Hmm. Have a link to the vid? I'm like you and dislike the vertical position while splitting. For anything with heft I usually get my son to help with the lift but he's 18 and losing interest fast. I think I'll end up noodling to a size I can easily manage. That vert stuff is for the birds....

 

Here you are Wood Wolverine

 

I used to use a 2x8 that was about 7'-8' long to do the same thing. I placed the board on the bottom of the beam. Suited me well until I bought a splitter with a log lift.

 

My avatar shows me doing the same thing with my old splitter, i started with a 2x6 ramp, then was given a folding ramp, folding ramp advantAge was the bumps in it that helped keep it from wanting to roll back.

 

Have no idea why I didn’t think of it before on my own. Looks like it will arrive Tuesday, and gun season will be in effect so it may be a while before I am in the woods making a racket.

 

I gave the ramp a try today and it worked pretty well on some big rounds. Unexpected plus was that when a big round split in half, one stayed on the work table of the splitter. The other half, I could lay on the ramp- after rolling the round up, I place the end of the ramp on the lower part of the I beam.

I am happy with the way it is working out.

 

That guy running the splitter is going to hurt himself in how nonchalant he is around pinch points.

 

I watch this guy on facebook for the laughs, I have a hard time thinking he has a real firewood business

 

He might end up with the nickname “lefty” one day

 

His girlfriend sure is making herself useful.

 

I could see this being useful for the splitters that don't go vertical, but if you have one that goes vertical, it seems like way more work.
Roll the rounds to the splitter, make it vertical, split in half, collect a pile, shift to horizontal and split.
Rolling up the ramp can't be any easier on the back or legs.
I shouldn't knock it till I try it, but I'd rather go vertical. I don't have to push as much.

 

Biggest problem going vertical with my Ariens is that you have to muscle the round onto that base/bottom part of the splitter which is a few inches off the ground. Then for the splitter wedge to actually make full contact with the round you practically have to keep the round level usually by lifting or somehow propping it up. It's a miserable task.

 

Mine is the same way, I understand what you are saying, but muscling it up a ramp? or muscle it onto a base with a 2x4/stick propping up the other side?
I'll still deal with that method.

 

In the Pines Has the same view I do. Wrestling a big round vertical and holding it against the beam with my leg until the ram pinches it. Then repeating that process for each half and quarter is very labor intensive.

Roll it up the ramp, split it. One half on the table, the other half on the ramp. Throw the splits into the bed of the Mule, all while standing erect. For me, it is much easier.

Plus the pushing the roll up the ramp is a good chest and shoulder workout. Vertical is a back killer, and I don’t have back issues, so it really shows how much more that is for me. Everyone has different builds and flexibility so another person my have the opposite finding.

 

If your horizontal only splitter is super low to the ground, that makes rolling the big rounds up to it easier.

We've got a horizontal/vertical splitter as well as the horizontal only one. If they were side by side, it's tough to say which I would use more. They both have their pros and cons.

 

I think I may have tried vertical once. My bil and I tried to push and shove huge rounds of ash into it & it was so much work. They were cut probably 12” or so. The bending over to get to the level at which we could move the wood was miserable. You have to move wood to and from the splitter at knee level. From then on I just started noodling huge stuff to get it to a manageable size, then use proper lifting techniques, most time with a lifting belt. It’s just what works for me.

The ramp deal was intriguing. I think I’ll just stick with noodling large rounds.

 

Me too !! Most of the time I can't tell if he is full of it or not.. "oversized truckloads" He must be a joker

 

I'm surprised you had to go to YouTube To get that Idea , Quite a few people on here do the same thing , I had a Ramp set up With my 7 ton electric .

For splitting vertical I use some planks (1 or 2)Or pipes in front of the splitter foot , once you get the round up on there You don't have to push on it or even hold it at all .
I'm not saying you should do it My way but it works good for me .
That's not a big round in the picture But you get the idea

 

The way we used to do the big splits was pick up the round with the forks and straddle the splitter with them holding the round in place on the beam then just split and let the 2 halves fall off now I just use a upside down splitter on loader to break them down TM30HD it saves the back as most of my wood are my sawmill rejects and some are 36" and up to big to wrestle JB