Another splitter thread... Horizontal vertical or multipla...?

[Hiluxr]

Correct

 

DO NOT BOTHER WITH THE SO CALLED UPGRADE TO A HONDA ENGINE !!! That's in capitals because the standard engine is just as good if not better. I was offered a "free upgrade" to a honda engine or a cash discount. When I asked what the standard engine was and the answer is SUBARU ROBIN I said to the riko guys "well the honda is no upgrade then is it!" "Precisely" they said. This is the abridged article on the matter! You can have the full techincal analysis if you have the time!!!

 

honda GX vs. Robin EX - Bob Is The Oil Guy

 

Kawasaki too, better than honda but not seen on firewood machinery. Kohlers appear on stump grinders and are sweet motors too. Think of a Robin engine as a honda with forged internals and no pushrods :thumbup:

 

Thanks for that.

[lowerforest]

woodline 10T multipla/honda engine does the job really well, although TCD is correct about bigger rings falling off once split. Dont bother with the 4-way splitter head; 2-way is far more efficient. Only gripe is that, for 1 person, the machine is heavy and awkward to manouever on anything other than hard, level surfaces due to small solid wheels and hard-to-find centre of balance. Needs 2 people to move it easily.

[New Forest Firewood Co]

Lowerforest

 

How much m3 and what sort of material are you putting through the multipla? Per day and what are you doing per yr with it?

 

Cheers

[lowerforest]

NFFC - only had this machine since June2011, so havent done a full year with it. We're a small operation, not full-time, but when we do some splitting, in a day we split enough beech and oak rings into logs to fill just under four Nissan Cabstar tipper truckloads (each truckload can fill just under 3 Wickes-style bulk bags).

 

We have found that having a purpose-built table standing on the opposite side of the splitter head/operator helps to catch pieces of the bigger split rings that would otherwise fall to the floor. As when using any form of processing machinery, you have to play around with layout, location, stacking of ringed wood etc to get the maximum efficiency out of the day's work. cant fault the machine, though, as far as splitting goes - starts every time, good on fuel, not too noisy, and we havent offered it a ring it couldn't split (yet!) Need to keep the brass sliding plates either side of the ram well greased - they do wear out, and not that cheap to replace. Would buy another multipla if we felt the need to expand our operation.

[New Forest Firewood Co]

cheers for that lowerforest, very helpful update. whereabout's are you in the country? be interested in taking a look if im ever passing if that's ok?

[lowerforest]

east berkshire, let me know if you're intending to be up towards London at any time. hands full at the moment with domestic issues but may be able to arrange something. fuelwoods up in Warwickshire supplied our machine, and they are more than happy to wheel one out and let you have a go if you're interested in buying - thats what we did.

[delabodge]

Vertical Woodline Bull or BalFor (RIKO) A11.

 

You are right about floor level - back pain.

Multipla - not ring on end friendly at all.

 

I have a11 - rings upto 24" never been a problem. Just cut in half otherwise.

 

same set up as above, same system works fine!!!

[New Forest Firewood Co]

Lower forest, fuelwood don't have any at the mo.... I'm right on the south coast so east berks isn't too far. Which town?

[New Forest Firewood Co]

Any other multipla owners then......?