Logs splitters

[Chunkymunky]

I have used a maul all day and my back is wrecked. Ice pack required

[treesap67]

I use a fisker really good best axe Ihave ever had

[treedweller]

Dont doubt it's good fun but splitters are made to increase production. If you had to do 20m3 of knarly crap in a week by hand i can guarantee you wouldn't want to do it again the week after

[Chunkymunky]

Dont doubt it's good fun but splitters are made to increase production. If you had to do 20m3 of knarly crap in a week by hand i can guarantee you wouldn't want to do it again the week after

 

Or be able to

 

Nice ash most of what i did today and probably only did a few tonnes.

[Woodworks]

Dont doubt it's good fun but splitters are made to increase production. If you had to do 20m3 of knarly crap in a week by hand i can guarantee you wouldn't want to do it again the week after

 

I agree that splitters are great for gnarly crap but when the wood is relativity clean a good blow with an axe is much faster. I have a Hycrack and many say it is very fast for a mechanical splitter but it is still much slower than a good axe. If splitting was all I did every day I wood concede too a mechanical splitter but I mix up my day so rarely spend to many hours splitting in one go. I am not advocating an axe for everyone but I am fit and able and an axe has proved to be the quickest way to split 90% of our wood. We only do about 100m3 per year so not enough to ware me out

Edited April 14, 2013 by Woodworks

[Joy Yeomans]

oxdale are very good machines, quick return stroke with the smaller ram, we ve used a friends before for a week or two, but i think however splitting all day everyday i think it wouldnt last that long unless you put nice easy to split sycamore through it, we have a browns and a woodline from fuelwood our Browns is solid machine hydraulic tractor run has a larger ram so slower but copes with everything thats thrown at it.

[roglog]

i have a oxdale splitter that i use with my ford 3910 or takeuchi tb016, works very well on both but could do with the lower table enlarged like others have mentioned