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Large Cone Splitter vs 40ton + splitter for 3ft/4ft butts


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Interested to know the pros and cons of cone splitter vs conventional log splitter for splitting 3ft/4ft diameter knotty hard wood butts.

I know with the cone splitter one has to taken in to consideration the purchase /stroke hire of the large 360 to get the most out of the cone splitter.

Serious amounts of money involved !!! Thanks for any info.

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We looked at both a couple of years and went with a splitter. The main reason was we don't have a 360 and a cone splitter big enough to split 3ft diameter plus needs a very high oil flow which we couldn't get from either of our loaders.

 

Also our 40 ton splitter goes 8 ways and you just keep pushing more through whereas a cone splitter takes multiple pushes just to split in half.

 

Of course if you have a 360 then you can get a cone splitter for 4K but a standard splitter with a few extras like ours is more like 16K and a cone splitter would probably be better for bent stuff and could do longer logs.

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We looked at both a couple of years and went with a splitter. The main reason was we don't have a 360 and a cone splitter big enough to split 3ft diameter plus needs a very high oil flow which we couldn't get from either of our loaders.

 

Also our 40 ton splitter goes 8 ways and you just keep pushing more through whereas a cone splitter takes multiple pushes just to split in half.

 

Of course if you have a 360 then you can get a cone splitter for 4K but a standard splitter with a few extras like ours is more like 16K and a cone splitter would probably be better for bent stuff and could do longer logs.

 

Hi mate what make splitter have you got thanks Jon

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