"Budget" Electric Kinetic Log Splitters?

[david lawrence]

Another vote for hydraulic or a fiskarsx27axe

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

And send those gnarly seasoned logs with loads of stored energy will fly around like hand grenades!

Not on a kinetic splitter but a hydraulic one, the only logs I had that problem with were some very old yew lengths that a woodcarver had had for years and given up on.

[jonLSS]

Irritatingly good advice (that already know really) that hydraulic is probably a better option. Is frustrating that in this internet world there doesn't seem to be anywhere to actually go and look at these machines.

Unless you know better?

Based in South Oxfordshire, So Oxfordshire, Bucks, Berks all easy reach. Thanks..

[Stere]

 

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2m³ over the year... not an awful lot!

 

Thats about -  a  guessstimate    4hrs  work  with axe & chainsaw for me....on   arb waste

 

Edited December 16 by Stere

[Steven P]

I was going to say the same however age and fitness plays a part.

 

Always look at some of the hydraulic ones and think can be quicker with just an axe.

[openspaceman]

33 minutes ago, Steven P said:

I was going to say the same however age and fitness plays a part.

 

Always look at some of the hydraulic ones and think can be quicker with just an axe.

I still process a 10.5m3 stack in my log shed each winter, filling up bays after they empty. I just use an axe and chainsaw but it takes me several days, it provides all the heat for a small, poorly insulated cottage.

 

My mate from primary school and I collect logs together and he processes his with a 6 tonne vertical mains electric one. I am faster for a short while, he plods on at it all day, tortoise and hare stuff. He is also 3 years older and recently diagnosed with Parkinsons , no way can he use an axe or chainsaw.

[Muddy42]

11 hours ago, jonLSS said:

Irritatingly good advice (that already know really) that hydraulic is probably a better option. Is frustrating that in this internet world there doesn't seem to be anywhere to actually go and look at these machines.

Unless you know better?

Based in South Oxfordshire, So Oxfordshire, Bucks, Berks all easy reach. Thanks..

 

One more thought, is your hydraulic splitter full of oil?  When mines gets low on oil it slows down. 

 

Also as stated above, I put pieces of wood in it to stop the ram returning, so if the logs are all <18 inches, I set the ram to about 20 inches so I only have to wait for it to move 2 inches.  Does that make sense? 

[Steven P]

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

I still process a 10.5m3 stack in my log shed each winter, filling up bays after they empty. I just use an axe and chainsaw but it takes me several days, it provides all the heat for a small, poorly insulated cottage.

 

My mate from primary school and I collect logs together and he processes his with a 6 tonne vertical mains electric one. I am faster for a short while, he plods on at it all day, tortoise and hare stuff. He is also 3 years older and recently diagnosed with Parkinsons , no way can he use an axe or chainsaw.

 

Not quite up to 10.5, probably 5 with the Fiskars, a little at a time (amazing while the family are putting on their shoes to get out I can be ready, grab the axe, split a round, tidy up, lock up and be in the car.. just as they are locking up the front door)... but that is not for everyone.

[openspaceman]

55 minutes ago, Steven P said:

 

Not quite up to 10.5, probably 5 with the Fiskars, a little at a time (amazing while the family are putting on their shoes to get out I can be ready, grab the axe, split a round, tidy up, lock up and be in the car.. just as they are locking up the front door)... but that is not for everyone.

Thinking about it , as there is normally about 20% left each year, I process about 8m3. I assume a stacking efficiency of around 70%, probably less as it's arb waste, so 5.6 solid m3. A rough estimate if all around 20% and 1solid m3 contains 500kg dry wood that's ~11200kWh and would cost £1100 in gas plus I get lots of exercise despite owning an old, rudimentary processor rusting in the wood somewhere.

[Steven P]

I'll have to get the pen and paper out later to do the same sums! (but approx half that for me, £500 to £600)

 

 

Which works on StevenP justification 'saved £600, can afford a new garden toy / splitter / axe / saw

Edited December 17 by Steven P