Splitter Opinions

That's a really cool way to collect !

 

Would like for you to come down to our GTG next weekend , you will see a couple other splitter options. It would also be great to meet you and talk maple.

 

I'd love that ! Thank you fir the invite. Let me see what I can do !!

 

That an excellent idea Walt! I’ll be there in spirit brother.

 

I would look into an electric splitter, it seems they can do small wood just fine. And quietly.

And whoever got that Super Split for $400, that is insane, deal of a lifetime.

 

How's it on elm? Or the ash that acts like elm? That's the real test.

 

It’s definitely not as fast on elm but since it’s more of a knife than a wedge it tends to cut through the fibers rather than making a huge stringy mess like a hydro splitter would.

 

If I wasn't so busy I'd go to Walt's GTG to see these in person, as well as the FHC'ers I've already been and those I haven't yet.

I've been busting azz getting my ski boat trailer restored so I can get the boat on it and into storage before the snow flies.

 

Maybe next spring at Dennis’ I’ll have the super split there.

 

I'd love to be there too, but next weekend might be lifting the boat onto the refurbished trailer.

I'm hoping next Spring will be more normal ( ) or at least closer to normal and I can hit Dennis's GTG.

 

They aren’t cheap that’s for sure! I looked for probably a year before I found this one and that was before the world went tits over teakettle. Plus I had to travel 8 hours to Buffalo to pick it up. This machine is 20 years old and I paid 8k for it with forks, bucket, and auger. Shortly after I got it home I had to put a new kohler engine in it so that was another 2k. The bypass grapple was 3k. It has earned all that back 10 times over, but I wouldn’t recommend one to someone who didn’t have a specific need for it. Really Scott if you don’t run into a lot of fenced yards you can get better lift performance for the money from a compact tractor with a grapple. Most of my jobs it’s easier to run this little guy through a fence gate than try to squeeze a tractor through a section of removed fence though.

 

I’d rather be bathed in honey and subject to wood gnats before burning elm-stringy azz, high moisture POS firewood-I’d pay the gas company first if that was all I had to burn—-True dat! But I’m a wood snob….so there’s that

 

I don't know what kind of elm you have by you, but the stuff we have here is great. It can be stringy, but if you wait to split it when the bark falls off, it's not bad to split. Thankfully, it burns a while lot better than it splits.

 

You could probably get away with making a 4 way for whatever you get. It's at least 3 times faster. I made one for my splitter and LOVE it.