Budget splitter...

[Mick Dempsey]

Why didn’t you get a splitter for the back of the tractor? much more powerful.

[Ty Korrigan]

You are right of course, may yet go that way as well one day.

It would certainly be compact to store and more difficult to steal.

The advantage of this inexpensive machine is it can also be lent out to my woodpicker friends.

     Stuart

 

[Mick Dempsey]

You mean hired out surely?

[youngsbury]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Why didn’t you get a splitter for the back of the tractor? much more powerful.

I decided not to go down that route as it ties up the compact if I need to move the logs. I put a tow hitch on the back of the trailer hitch splitter up and I can go off into the woods and cut split and throw into Ibc on the trailer in one motion ! Saves double handling. Or I can hitch it onto the quad and get it anywhere when to wet muddy when larger machines will carve up the park 

[Ty Korrigan]

Also, I'm an urban Arb and hauling my tractor around would be an overkill for most splitting jobs.

I've only done 105 hrs with that in 16 months as it is.

I intend to hitch this splitter up to the Kangoo and do a day now and then with Mrs Lee.

I've not found the splitter wanting in power TBH.

 

Here in France, services such as this can fall under the umbrella of 'Service Ala Personne'  (Personal Domestic Services)

The client can claim back 50% of the invoice as a tax credit.

The business has to be registered with a Cooperative Association in order to offer such services though.

Hedge cutting and grass cutting etc also benefit from this tax credit scheme but tree work does not.

TBH, it is the only way we could make wood splitting pay enough given the low productivity of these machines.

  Stuart

 

 

 

[youngsbury]

If you intend to lend / hire your splitter out would you be liable if someone got injured due to converting to single hand operation ? 

[Peasgood]

45 minutes ago, youngsbury said:

If you intend to lend / hire your splitter out would you be liable if someone got injured due to converting to single hand operation ? 

Not a legal expert but I think it is actually illegal to do so and you would be in the poo if someone was injured. The same would apply if it was an employee that was injured

Edited February 15, 2021 by Peasgood

[Ty Korrigan]

Not for general public hire but amongst my entourage. 

I've a group of wood pickers who take logs either from sites or let me drop off.

The availability of a splitter will encourage and facilitate and I did write 'adapted' concerning that safety lever...

Stuart

 

 

  

Edited February 16, 2021 by Ty Korrigan

[lux]

Why didn’t you get a splitter for the back of the tractor? much more powerful.

That’s all down to what tractor you run one on though. I’ve got both. If you have a classic tractor say the ubiquitous MF35 or similar the hydraulic flow rate is so poor you would be better with an axe.

If you go to the other extreme like a fair sized moser. Tractor you can really make a splitter fly but you can overheat the hydraulic oil easily or bend a ram

I have the venom 22t and for what it is it’s brilliant. Road tow too so have put it behind the pickup and hired it into a few jobs.

In fact if anyone wants an oxdale 3 point hydraulic splitter I e got one kicking around that I would part with for the right money.

[Peasgood]

1 hour ago, lux said:

In fact if anyone wants an oxdale 3 point hydraulic splitter I e got one kicking around that I would part with for the right money.

I regret selling mine. I have a Posch pto driven thing that is an absolute beast and can stall my 35 if I am being silly but do miss the simplicity of my Oxdale. Not on the 35 I might add.