Glenn Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 This fellow must be part blacksmith (grin) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Coke Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Scary .... OSHA ?? Don't think I would want my fingers any where close to that one... I do that much work with a hand splitting maul... and faster.. Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 I don't see it as scary. I mean we mostly work with red hot steel and open fires with just as much proximity and personal protection. It does seem like a rather large contraption and I wonder about it's ability to split gnarly woods. I have a DR wood splitter that will go through anything, including sweetgum. This guy, though, doesn't seem to have enough backside to fight through knots or twisted grain. Looks like he was splitting some really nice wood with a minimum of effort. Kudos to him for coming up with something that's far easier on the back than a splitting maul! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Vaughn: Is that the DR using flywheels instead of hydraulics? I LOVE those, were I to be in the market I'd buy a DR at twice the price. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Mullins Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Man this is odd timing, I just saw a link to this very similar contraption a couple days ago http://www.wimp.com/choppingfirewood/ . My first thought was a potetial platform to be modified into a treadle hammer : ) . I see after watching Glen's I see there are a few of them on youtube. You can see a fellow struggling a little on this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtownAndrew Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 It doesn't look worth the trouble. He demonstrated splitting little easy straight grained logs that split with only half hearted effort using a hand swung maul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothBore Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 My first thought was about how easy it would be to convert a "Cherry Picker" type Shop Crane, into one of these splitters. I liked the second design, ... with the counter-weighted splitter, ... better than the spring return version, ... because the inertia of the counter-weight helps do the "work". . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted February 24, 2014 Author Share Posted February 24, 2014 Anything with straight grain splits easily. Add a knot or a twist and you need to get serious. Then there are those crotch pieces where the tree forks, and certain woods like sycamore that suggest you use the best tool available, the chainsaw, to work them down to size. That is said after I cut and recut a 28 inch sycamore that was a leaner and could cause serious damage to a building. The result was blocks of wood 4x4, 4x6 and 4x9 by 16 inch long. Man those stack nice (grin) Solid too. Limbs 6 inches diameter and under were not split but used as all nighter logs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron quake Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Nice idea if you like cutting meat with a stone ax, clumsy, slow and dangerous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stovestoker Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Is that guy splitting balsa wood? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Frosty, the DR is sure enough running with flywheels and no hydraulics whatsoever. Have yet to find a situation where it doesn't split. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Frosty, the DR is sure enough running with flywheels and no hydraulics whatsoever. Have yet to find a situation where it doesn't split. The guy who demoed one at the local "Craig Tayler" had some birch burls he split for demos and as anybody who splits wood knows, burls don't split. The DR just blew through them like they were straight grained. Not smooth and straight but split, fast and easy on 120v house current. Frosty the Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRS Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 I could not resist, for those of you who haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmtMv7Cz0HA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtownAndrew Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 The widow maker is scary! I noticed after I finished watching it that my gut had tensed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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