Just wanting to see some pics of your splitter set up and ready to work. I’ve run a preowned Yard Machine 25 ton splitter for several years and it has done its job well. I recently purchased a preowned Champion 27 ton splitter but I’ve yet to use it. I’m hoping it will speed things up a bit with an 11 second cycle time vs the 16 second cycle of the Yard Machine. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Last fall I realized my shoulders wouldn't last if I kept splitting 8 cords a year by hand. So I bought a used but well-kept 22-ton Dirty Hands splitter. It's done all I've asked of it, including splitting some big gnarly hickory rounds that I couldn't begin to split by hand. I moved the factory "shelf" to the opposite side, and built a bigger solid one over the motor and tank fill/vent to protect them. I usually load onto the small factory side, then split onto the larger shelf, which I position towards the stack. It works out well that way. Luckily I have a couple of able-bodied grandsons close enough to me that I can "borrow" them sometimes. They work for snacks and Nana's gravy biscuits in the morning!
Careful about advertising grandma gravy biscuits you might find more “ family” I used to shovel snow for snacks and hot cocoa
There's a 2x2' table on the other side of the splitter. If you look close you can see it. So that goes toward the unsplit rounds. They go on the table to get split and slips go behind/beside me, on the trailer to get stacked.
Still running my now 15 y/o Homelite 5-ton electric. The rounded corners of the top of the beam have worn to sharp edges, but it continues to split rounds bigger than I should be handling.
I've been using my Husky 10 horse 34T splitter for probably 10 years now. Just last year swapped out the pump for a new one.
Performance Built 27 ton. Box store special that's four years old. Sometimes I'll fill a feed/litter bag with shards while splitting. I've looked into getting a Super split flywheel splitter.
