What is your dream log splitter?

no that I could go for lol

 

Well....I could probably arrange that. See if I can pull it off this next week.

 

I've been eyeballing the eastonmade 12-22. I like the option V shaped box wedge. It seems like it does a good job. Some box wedges look like they waste the wood, they turn it into mulch. I like the fast wedge changes on it too. I just wish it had a pull back arm, but that would be easy to add.

Timberwolf has a new splitter with a removable V shaped box wedge. They call it the timberwolf alpha. It looks nice but they don't have any specs on it yet. Just a video on Youtube.

The powersplits are a nice simple design, but expensive for what they are.

I've thought about getting a splitter like the rugged made 37 ton and add an autocycle valve and build a box wedge.

That will be a beast.

I really like the powersplit. If I would have know about them the last time I was in the market, I may have built my own. I was thinking the other day about building one. I am not sure how much faster it would be than my current setup, if it would be worth while. Is the splitter you are referring too?

 

Thanks, I'm kind of thinking/ dreaming about another splitter so I am looking for ideas.

 

Close, but it was only 2 wheeled, car type wheels, red, and the ram flipped down for transport.

That one's pretty cool though.

 

Close to this design, but not a box splitter, and the trailer was much shorter. Iirc, he had foot controls.

 

I don't think I have seen the splitter you are describing. That reminds me of a tempest woodsplitter.

 

I really like the box wedge splitters with the pull back arm. You just load the splitter and don't have to touch the wood anymore. With my current splitter pulling the wood back to resplit becomes very tedious and tiresome. Most of these splitters can be changed to a 4 or 6 way wedge also.

Here is a video of the Timberwolf Alpha. It looks like it has a "floating" pull back arm(see the grease fittings), so the box wedge is probably hydraulically adjustable like the Eastonmade but the Eastonmade does not have a pull back arm.



As of 10:28PM tonight, this is my dream splitter. That may change by 10:30. I'm always looking at splitters and watching videos of them.

 

Mine would be a splitter with a live deck, chainsaw bar, hydraulic forward and hydraulic wedge, I think the proper name is a firewood processor and of course a tier 3 diesel Cat, Kabota or Perkins. Have been looking at a Dana, Hudson, Bell and a few others....dream big right.

 

Unlimited budget, and if owed a nice piece of ground with lots of tree's to cut, and process, i would sure give the Wolf Ridge compact commercial splitter a hard look. Mike Morgan demoed it on his youtube channel and it really looks like a winner to me. That said, for the average ''joe'' (me) my good old 22 ton speeco will have to do, ha,ha. ha. And, i can't complain, its been great all the years i've owned it.

 

Yep... lots of potential with that rig for sure. The log lift probably could lift up more than big rounds too... like maybe a +- 8 foot log... lift it for easy buckin'. Add a 2000 lb winch, to drag the occasional beast to the lift... yup, lots of possibilities. Nice and compact to pull down in the woods too.

 

Electric : quiet, can run on your time, no "starting", plug and play, run inside, no bad gas, you can sing, you can listen to NPR , little maintenance, no smell of engine running. Super Split has one...it is fast yet $$$$$..
Our two are DR, horizontal only.
Cons: slower....period. Real slow...but I have the time.
JMNSHO

 

Too much wrestling around with that big round.
Yes, it makes 3 pcs/hit but its slow and needs alot of effort to move that chunk around.

Seems like too much effort for time spent and firewood output.

 

Its a decent idea, only issue I can see is you have less control over where your splits are.
I'll bet you end up with a lot of thin pcs.
Not very fast either.

I'm kinda torn on the loader, you have to wrestle the pcs on the loader, your picking them up if your loading more than one. Only thing you save is how high you lift it.
And its slower than just picking the pc up if its not too big to begin with. And of course its slow.

Just like everything there is pro's and con's.
I've used a large hydraulic and I currently have a Super split thats electric.
I am fortunate that I can pick and choose what I want for firewood. I don't have to mess around with big stuff and I can avoid the crotch stuff that splits funny and yeilds odd sized firewood chunks.

In my case the electric SS works out nice. Its fast and I don't feel like I went thru 1/2 dozen rounds in a boxing ring at the end of the day.

If I was limited or had to take what I could get for firewood everything from large rounds to crotchy stuff I'd go hydraulic and I'd want a lift on it.

 

The one I linked looks a lot like a tempest.

I'll keep trying to find the one I'm talking about. It was really cool.

 

I had a Harbor freight dual direction splitter and it was tiring switching the wood side to side. You don't gain the speed you think you would with a dual direction splitter. The only advantage is you don't have to retract the wedge to lay the next round on. You still have to wait for the wedge to run over 16'' to contact the wood, which would be no different than running the wedge back on a regular splitter. A dual direction design may on save a couple of seconds a split. The tempest needs dual pull back arms like the Timberwolf alpha or a wolfe ridge.

Anytime you have a wedge that splits more than 2 ways, you loose control over the splits. Some will be too thin and you will end up with a bigger pile trash/ chips at the bottom of the splitter. A 2 way makes the cleanest splits. The thing with the TW alpha is, it is pretty fast IMO plus you end up with 4 pieces each time it splits, if the wood is big enough.

I buy triaxle loads and I get some larger stuff than I would like but you have to take what you can get. I wish I would get stuff in the 10 or 12'' range. Sometimes I get stuff over 20.'' The guy I buy from told me he may have some ash late this spring or early this summer and it will be around 20.'' My current splitter is a Split Second. I can split this big stuff but it gives me a work out. On larger stuff I have to split it from one side, then flip it and split it from the other side. Then you still have 2 bog halves to deal with. I gets old very quick, split a piece, drag it back to the wedge and split again. I like the idea of the box wedge with a pull back arm because you load the round on the splitter and ideally, you just work the levers, never touching the round again. The PowerSplits also look good to me. Even if you have to split from both sides, you just spin the round which would be easier than pulling it back like I do now. The problem with a powersplit is everything would have to be thrown on the conveyor by the operator. What you gain one place, you loose another.

 

I heard if you get the one with dual splitters and a conveyor it is $24K.

 

24k???

I just don't get the dual splitter thing.

 

I think I would buy 2 single splitters. If one broke, the other would still be going.

 

Went back and watched this vid. I agree that it seems like a lot of gravity fightin' ...(flopping the round to prep for opposite splitter direction)... but my biggest negative was that it allows the operator to let go of the ram control. The ram keeps on going and the operator now has lots of time and opportunity to get in trouble with his hands. Machine is no doubt made by Murphy's Law company...