I try to make the most out of each trip to and from the woodshed as it’s about 200 feet from the house and from the processing area. Some parts of the property where I gather wood from are over a quarter mile in the woods one way. I try to be as efficient as possible. I’d love a trailer just like the Supertilt, but 5x8.
Thanks, that's the reason we built it. We have routinely gotten some big trees to deal with, up to 46+"...I got tired of wrestling those on the foot. The trick is to make your platform a shade higher than the tips on your foot, make you a chop bar too, comes in handy for sliding them around and cutting strings in the split. This was a 46" white oak we got one year. I have used the tractor to sit rounds on the splitter horizontally, but do I want to handle a half that size in the air..no... Big rounds are a lot of work, but make a lot of wood. Sometimes you have to take what's given to you.
Here is a video of our setup. Splitting 24" red oak round. Really shows how nice the metal platform works behind the splitter foot. Also had this 36" oak log we did too.
So just a rectangular platform made of some 2" sched 40 pipe and 1/4" or so strapping to tie it all together?
I need to get one of those built. I’ve seen some here before and thought it would be nice. Split some big rounds today in the vertical position and got bigger ones coming up. Got to get something like that put together soon
Something like that, I used 1 1/2" handrail pipe and 2x2x1/4 angle iron, IIRC. Just needs to be slightly higher that nibs on the splitter foot. Glad you like our simple design. The 36" logs weren't quite smooth on the face, had to use the chop/pry bar to help position them.
Enjoyed the video, nice operation. I somehow missed the burn barrel at first. Was beginning to think you were working the machine so hard it was smoking. Or maybe steam powered! I would work in that kind of office (chair) any day!
I’ve got a TS County line 25 ton splitter - it goes vert or horiz. I used to always split vert - that way I could sit on a round while chewing away at the pile. This past summer I tried horizontal - moved the splitter next to the pick em up truck tail gate and just moved the rounds to the splitter, then to the gorilla cart, then wheeled to the stacks. I decided this was WAY easier vs. vertical. I guess you can teach old dogs new tricks? Then I got an iso core maul - been using that now instead of the splitter. Harder - yea but somewhat more satisfying a feeling after a spell. Go figure.
Yes sir, it all depends on the set up. Horizontal would work great for us to if I had the rounds already cut on a truck or trailer. We usually haul the logs home about 10 1/2' long, getting 7-18" rounds each log. Faster and easier to get the wood home. But that's just us.
Yea I buck my stuff up so it’s small enough to get in the truck myself (it’s just me) so it’s single or 1/2 “rounds” already when I get it home - right size to split horizontal. Different story if I were bringing home log length stuff.
This is the way we normally get wood home. 2 trailer loads of white oak limbs and tops. We cut 2 trees for a friend, he got 20' trunk section from each tree for lumber, we got the rest.
I noodle my big a$$ rounds into 1/4s so I can either lift them or roll them up a ramp to the splitter. I only have experience with one vertical splitter and I hated it. It’s my neighbors TSC Huskee and the engineering of the unit it’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever had to deal with. So I can’t wright off all vertical machines but having to work that close to the ground just isn’t appealing to me. When I have a helper though I just use my Cat 304 and lift the big rounds to the splitter.
