Splitting. Man vs Machine

[s.varty]

Smelly,noisy,saves on gym membership ,uses fuel and sometimes scares the cr@p out of me.

 

At my age just filling in the gym membership form would wear me out, so its machine all the way, it,ll come to you in time if you stick to arb related work.

[hot logs]

Splitting a small amount of wood for your own consumption or as a small sideline to make a couple of quid - the axe wins every time.

 

Splitting wood commercially as a full/part time business - the splitter wins every time.

[Woodworks]

At my age just filling in the gym membership form would wear me out, so its machine all the way, it,ll come to you in time if you stick to arb related work.

 

I know you speak the truth but I am going to enjoy it while it lasts

[Ashes_Firewood]

I used to be an axe man, have an X27 and still do a little bit with. Like others have said you can go faster than a machine to start with but I can split all day no matter how knotty with a hydraulic splitter going at the same rate. No more bad back and general aches and pains. I'm a hydraulic splitter man now!

[Big J]

Only timed myself once recently. With my wife loading the block with a mixture of clean ash, medium knotty oak and stringy European larch, I did a cubic meter in 19 minutes. Without the larch it would have been about 16 minutes as it often takes two hits. We got 2 cubic meters split, into the crate and stacked with the forklift in 45 minutes.

[shooterjim]

I'm stuck using the axe as we have no power at the yard and the old Nuffield with a hydraulic splitter would be slow. Keep looking at the cheap petrol splitters,600 quid ish.

[pie eater pete]

Try thinking of the mother-in-law when your splitting... helps me no end.

[Woodworks]

Still no times to do a m3 with a machine.

 

It is not a competition (I would say that as it turns out I am very sloooow) but I would honestly like to know how long it takes with a hydraulic splitter as I may get one sooner or later, the speed will give me a guide to whether it should be sooner or later.

 

Right I am off to find some nice rings to improve my time and I will break a sweat this time

[gensetsteve]

We have a sheppach ox 3 vertical splitter. On saturday in 6 hours we split 6 cu metres one man on the saw one man on the splitter but the rings are more 18 -24 in. We have a good lunch break and plenty of tea breaks and look forward to doing it next week. If I was to go flat out for an hour I would say 1.5 - 2 cu metres. If you pace yourself you can do an 8 hr day and not sit around for 3 recovering.

[Ashes_Firewood]

I've never timed it properly when using the machine but last time I did enough to fill 7no. 1m3 vented bags in about 2 & a half hours I think. That was me on my own having to put the logs on the splitting table. If theirs one person loading and one operating the splitter it's even faster.

 

That's splitting a big pile of wood that's already been logged up previously.