Splitter I think

found this for anyone on here that is interested Moelven log cleaver(firewood processor)

 

Cuts and splits, apparently...

 

Like Ron Popeil always said "it slice's and dice's" ........or am I just showing my age.

 

My father in law has one of those on the old farm. One of his brothers bought it years ago. I haven’t seen it used, but from what he’s told me, they’re pretty slick pieces of equipment. One of these days I’m going to hook it up to my tractor and try it out for the heck of it.

 

But wait, there's more...

 

The rod on that cylinder is pretty impressive compared to the barrel .

 

To me, what makes splitting wood hard is:

1. getting the wood onto the splitter
2. Throwing the split wood of the splitter

The first can be mitigated, but for the most part, obtaining a firewood conveyor is really what takes the work out of splitting wood. I wonder if for the money, buying/making a firewood conveyor might make things easier?

 

We split close to the stackk or toss it into the bucket of the Kubota. A conveyor would be ok in our situation if we were just going to pile it up. At one time I thought it would be nice if it had a de-railer like we used to have in the hay mow. That way you could stack along the length of the conveyor before repositioning. At the moment it seems like it would just be another piece of equipment we would have to move around.

Like anything, I guess it depends on your situation.

 

I hear ya...just proposing splitting thoughts.

I am reconfigured now, but at one time we actually used a manure spreader as a makeshift firewood processor.

What we did was mount our woodsplitter to our manure spreaders front hitch. Then we removed the spreading tines off the back. Then we unhooked the live-bed and put on a crank handle instead. In this way, after splitting the firewood, we would throw it into the manure spreader body. When it was full we would drive back to the woodshed and back up. Rather then retrieve the wood from the body, we would just crank the wood back to us. In this way there was a lot less handling and bending over: a killer on our backs. It really worked well.

Today I cut/split the wood right into my dump body so it is no longer needed, but not because it did not work well.

 

Even ladies can do it.........wow.....so many ways I could go with that.....

 

I think the Bobcat processer that lifts, cuts to length, splits, and dumps on the pile is a lot cooler. Your system is a lot cheaper and would be a lot less work if I could convince the ladies around here to do it for me!

 

My wife helps run my horizontal splitter. She takes the shed sized splits and throws them in the loader or gator while I wrestle what’s left. Works well. I split for large size stuff, roughly 12 inches in diameter. We can split a pile quick without being bent over or sitting. I do have a hydraulic lift though

 

When we do Firewood Weekend at that children's camp every year, there are many women that volunteer their time and outwork many of the guys...and it is horizontal super-splitting!! They are working just as hard at the beginning of the day, as the last!

I would even dare say that Katie out-works me. We work this farm together, and she does what I do to keep the sheep fed and the lambs alive. A lot of times I will take the easier way out, but even though she does not have too, she will lug hay, fill hay racks and shovel manure just so things are better for the sheep.

There are some lazy men and hard working women...
There are some hard working men and lazy women too...

But...I don't think ever comparing the two genders is fair. It is NOT the method, or gender that is employed in splitting wood that matters, but rather the work ethic of the people involved.

 

I use this...

Hover the log loader over the round, pinch it but do not fully split it until it is over the dump body of my trailer (not shown), and then haul it to the woodshed. It is so no-touch, that I even added a cup holder!

 

Cheater

 

Yep, 1 person sitting at the
horizontal splitter operating the ram, and one or 2 bringing wood over to be split works great, even with the slow cycle times of the dider splitter.