How To Operate a Log Splitter

[trigger_andy]

I’ll be home with all my logs split after 3 hrs when you is burning midnight oil....you are both correct about tonnage it’s just the time taken to get up there .never worked with such small displacements 🤣

Looking forward to the video of this beast splitting logs. Sounds like it’s really pouring them out Lee.

[trigger_andy]

Just now, frammo said:

Hehe hopefully haven’t overhyped ,wontvbe first time I’ve looked a twat though🤪

We’ll have to have a “split-off”. 🤣 

 

But I get a head start as you have more HP in your Starter Motor than I do in my engine!

[Billhook]

Perhaps a gauge at the appropriate position would be the answer

 

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[Ontario Firewood Resource]

Awesome, I have seen the footage when ours mated with yours but I will watch your video again. Calgary is beautiful, just outside the Rocky Mountains I'm hoping to visit an old friend in NB whole I worked alongside and got into self employment with him about the same time. Its all country out that way. Did you know that our Lancaster had an engine problem while out there? They had to borrow an engine to get back!

16 hours ago, Billhook said:

One more, I wonder how many logs you could split with a Merlin powered propeller splitter!  (Trying to return to topic!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[trigger_andy]

43 minutes ago, frammo said:

took more than 1 hit 😉

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Certainly looks very quick! 

 

Whats the dimensions on that Cherry? 

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, frammo said:

Wish you had asked beforehand ,which bit 🤣🤣🤣

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12 minutes ago, frammo said:

according to math it’s 3.8 sec cycle 🤪

What does the Ram do with the other 6.1 seconds its waiting for you to load the next log?  

[trigger_andy]

Just now, frammo said:

You just can’t help yerself 🙄🤣

Sorry.  

[Billhook]

7 hours ago, Ontario Firewood Resource said:

Awesome, I have seen the footage when ours mated with yours but I will watch your video again. Calgary is beautiful, just outside the Rocky Mountains I'm hoping to visit an old friend in NB whole I worked alongside and got into self employment with him about the same time. Its all country out that way. Did you know that our Lancaster had an engine problem while out there? They had to borrow an engine to get back!

 

It was Moncton in NB and Edmonton in Alberta, I am sure I have some black and white photos father took.

Father always teased me about not being a proper pilot as I had no seaplane licence.  I put that right by going to Jack Brown's Seaplane base in Florida.  One manoeuvre that was a bit of  an eye opener was how to take off out of a lake that was too short.  Answer do a circular take off.!  There is a first time for everything I suppose

While I was there I visited a nearby war museum full of every type of plane used in the last war.

I was admiring three Mustangs when the manager came over.  I jokingly said "What does it take to have a flight in one of these"

He gave me the name of Lee Lauderback who runs Stallion 51 from Kissimmee.  This is what followed...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spitfire MkIX at East Kirkby again.  (Whisper it but I preferred the Mustang!)

 

So rare to find somebody who likes splitting logs and likes WW2 aircraft

 

How to we put this massive thread derail back on the track?

Ah Yes, I designed my first static splitting axe on the fin of a Mustang!

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[daveatdave]

3 hours ago, Billhook said:

It was Moncton in NB and Edmonton in Alberta, I am sure I have some black and white photos father took.

Father always teased me about not being a proper pilot as I had no seaplane licence.  I put that right by going to Jack Brown's Seaplane base in Florida.  One manoeuvre that was a bit of  an eye opener was how to take off out of a lake that was too short.  Answer do a circular take off.!  There is a first time for everything I suppose

While I was there I visited a nearby war museum full of every type of plane used in the last war.

I was admiring three Mustangs when the manager came over.  I jokingly said "What does it take to have a flight in one of these"

He gave me the name of Lee Lauderback who runs Stallion 51 from Kissimmee.  This is what followed...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spitfire MkIX at East Kirkby again.  (Whisper it but I preferred the Mustang!)

 

So rare to find somebody who likes splitting logs and likes WW2 aircraft

 

How to we put this massive thread derail back on the track?

Ah Yes, I designed my first static splitting axe on the fin of a Mustang!

did they replace the original mustang engine with the merlin engine that was used in the spitfire