What are your thoughts on the forward/back splitter. I keep looking at the harbor freight model and telling myself if mine ever craps oUT beyond repair I might have to give that one a try.
That stack tipping over is my biggest fear. I love cutting wood in the forest, I love loading the truck, I love splitting. Stacking is the biggest chore for me. If one of mine tipped over I would be beyond P.O.'d
Stacking is my favorite, I love looking at a nice wall o wood after all that other work. My least favorite is getting heavy arse rounds in the truck
I purposely bump mine on occasion as stacking. I figure if I don't knock it over hopefully my kids won't either.
Ha I do that too! I kind of just push on the upper section and rock it back and forth to judge stability.
Oh I like looking at the wall of wood for months and months afterwards, I just don't like building the wall of wood, back and forth with the wheel barrow, load the wheel barrow, empty the wheelbarrow....but yea loading heavy rounds in the truck does suck pretty bad but I love imagining all the BTU's in those big boys.
Wheelbarrowing is no fun. Ive started trying to split where the stack will be so I dont have to move wood so much. At the most, I just toss splits down the line
I thought about splitting where I want to stack but I like splitting right off the back of the truck, esp if I have big rounds! And I can't my truck where my stacks are (small suburban yard).
I'm lucky to be able to get my truck into my backyard and can usually get close enough to my stacking area
works great. It's nice to have the tailgate there as an extra table when working up bigger rounds. I shines in normal <16" rounds, when you get the real big heavy oak 20+ rolling them around can be a chore - there were a few of those in that truckload yesterday
I couldn't agree more. Cutting wood is not fun with 90's and high humidity. I almost got started with this winter's cutting yesterday but kept getting interrupted. The last time was when a friend came and stayed for 2 1/2 hours. Funny that he saw I had loaded the trailer with the saw and other tools and ready to go. It didn't bother him; he likes to talk. He brought a trail camera for me to figure out and from there we just sat and talked. Finally I gave up and put things away before it got dark.
