Show us your log splitters

[Ontario Firewood Resource]

 

[Cowmop]

Had this about 10 years

[Stubby]

2 hours ago, Ontario Firewood Resource said:

 

How many GPM is your pump ?

[Ontario Firewood Resource]

13 GPM, pretty much 50 litres per minute. I'm on metric just like you guys

[Ty Korrigan]

Generic Chinesium but effective.

If I split more I'd certainly buy a better quality machine which was more comfortable to use.

22t road tow to 72kph, Briggs engine for a little over a grand plus vat in your post brexit folding type monies.

Stuart

[trigger_andy]

Generic Chinesium but effective.
If I split more I'd certainly buy a better quality machine which was more comfortable to use.
22t road tow to 72kph, Briggs engine for a little over a grand plus vat in your post brexit folding type monies.
Stuart

You don’t fancy using it in the horizontal? I find it way easier and quicker. Only go vertical if it’s a big round.

[Ontario Firewood Resource]

I get a lot of big diameter wood (city trees) and you still have to bend over and pick up each small diameter logs. I split as much smaller blocks with the axe. I dont get up out of chairs easy after sitting for a while but I am a machine on the job and previous back injury a decade ago with the scrap lifting is non-existent than the fact that I'm stiffer in idle, but I'm almost 44 and I eat the 25 year old kids helping out for dinner. I do scrap, junk removal and other knick knacks all day amd I split wood into the night after day work because that's when I can unless other work gets slow. I hate working at evening/ night even with a floodlight on, its colder at night in winter but I avoid the coldest days and nights

[trigger_andy]

I get a lot of big diameter wood (city trees) and you still have to bend over and pick up each small diameter logs. I split as much smaller blocks with the axe. I dont get up out of chairs easy after sitting for a while but I am a machine on the job and previous back injury a decade ago with the scrap lifting is non-existent than the fact that I'm stiffer in idle, but I'm almost 44 and I eat the 25 year old kids helping out for dinner. I do scrap, junk removal and other knick knacks all day amd I split wood into the night after day work because that's when I can unless other work gets slow. I hate working at evening/ night even with a floodlight on, its colder at night in winter but I avoid the coldest days and nights

You don’t need to pick up smaller diameter logs by hand though. A set of hand lifting tongs and/or a Hookeroon makes light work of that. Sub-14” diameter logs split 4 ways on my little 22t. Virtually no bending involved and a good posture throughout the operation. I’m closing in on 42 and had two minor back surgeries in the last 3 years so ergonomics is very important to me and I can work all day without much discomfort. Bigger rounds get the vertical treatment obviously.

[Ontario Firewood Resource]

Ya I never liked horizontal. My friend smaller than me would lift big blocks and liked horizontal without log catcher. I tossed the log catcher rack at the scrap yard, I figured nobody would buy it online unless that one guy comes for it a year later, no big deal, would have sold it for only a few bucks anyway. Hopefully I get my fast machine going, standing up, with log lifter

[Ty Korrigan]

23 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

 

 

You don’t fancy using it in the horizontal? I find it way easier and quicker. Only go vertical if it’s a big round.

 

 

I'll give it some thought.

There is security to be disabled and that gimpy bar to be dealt with.

   Stuart