Please don’t tell me that all Log splitters in the UK require 2 handed operation.

[Elliott.F]

I thought it was only the domestic level splitters that required 2 handed operation, but been doing some research and it appears to be the case for pro splitters too. 

Watching manufacturers videos and they’re embarrassingly slow and inefficient, log’s falling on the floor, silly levers and arms. 

Is there a brand that’s easy to disable this farcical ‘safety’ feature?

[GarethM]

Thanks for shouting, erm it's an EU directive.

 

They are all able to be bypassed, but you obviously leave yourself open to problems if someone else uses it and has an accident.

[Stubby]

As above . A piece of piss to convert , mine was any way . Just one blob of weld on the rotatey handle and jobs a goodun .

[Haironyourchest]

If you gonna bypass it, consider how to do it in such a way that the process is reversible, cos you might want to sell it someday. 

[Stubby]

4 minutes ago, Haironyourchest said:

If you gonna bypass it, consider how to do it in such a way that the process is reversible, cos you might want to sell it someday. 

No body in their right mind would want it reversed surely ? They might even pay extra for the mod !

Edited August 9, 2023 by Stubby

[scbk]

40 minutes ago, Elliott.F said:

I thought it was only the domestic level splitters that required 2 handed operation, but been doing some research and it appears to be the case for pro splitters too. 

Watching manufacturers videos and they’re embarrassingly slow and inefficient, log’s falling on the floor, silly levers and arms. 

Is there a brand that’s easy to disable this farcical ‘safety’ feature?

 

Sorry to say it but a lot of the log splitters for sale are pretty naff, they don't seem to be designed with any efficiency or ergonomics in mind.

 

You will be able to modify any log splitter into single handed if you wish.

I've even seen some that are foot operated, but that's probably taking it a bit too far!

[gdh]

Wait until you see the guarding required on the big horizontal splitters now. You ironically have to climb over it to get fallen logs.. 

[Elliott.F]

41 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Thanks for shouting, erm it's an EU directive.

 

They are all able to be bypassed, but you obviously leave yourself open to problems if someone else uses it and has an accident.

Didn’t mean to shout. I must have accidentally selected something. 
 

Glad to hear thy can be bypassed. No one else will be using my splitter, but it’s a good point. 

[Elliott.F]

33 minutes ago, Stubby said:

No body in their right mind would want it reversed surely ? They might even pay extra for the mod !

That’s exactly my thoughts. I’d pay more for a splitter if someone had moded it for one handed operation. 

[difflock]

I have mentioned before, how I can only deduce that Krpan paid some clever bloke to design their mandatory  two handed safety system  so that it is easily converted to single handed operation with a single spanner.

Or this was the case when I bought one 10-12-15 year ago.

I was actually impressed.

Bit like the wonderful Victa two stroke lawnmowers from NZ with the faboulous Suzuki engine, which came 4 holes in the disc, but fitted with two blades only, with 2 spare blades also supplied, and a line or comment that the 2nd set of holes were spares for when the first set wore out, and not to be fitting the 2nd set of blades to the extra two holes.

But it cut so much better with 4 blades, like it was origonally designed to,

except the 2 "extra" blades exceeded the then newly introduced tighter noise regs in the UK market.

So, hmmmmm, lemme think  about that.  .  .

Pragmatic marketing gunius that was. 

Edited August 9, 2023 by difflock