Logsplitter advice please

[The Rutland Arborist]

No its a petrol, the chinese engines are pretty good to be honest, starts first time every time. The main problems are cheap pumps, rams and wether you get a "Friday night one"!

 

don't get me wrong, it's split a lot of wood and is still going but i am always tinkering with something to keep it going. To be honest for 1600 quid i would go for a quality machine but second hand from either a dealer or someone you trust also it will hold it's value so if you don't get on in the log job at least you can sell it again, chinese stuff is really worth nowt second hand, just my opinion as i got a friday night machine.

Okay, thanks! There are so many out there its a job to know what to go for! It must be petrol or diesel and fairly moveable although it doesn,t have to be a tow behind but i thought that would be handy.

I suppose for if it isn't a tow behind you'll get more for the same money!

Has any one come across ALS models (honda engines) form logsplittersuk?

[davetaz]

managed to find a suitable splitter for my needs - a Thor 37MVS10PD, 13 ton, road towable, B&S petrol engine, perfect for splitting big timber into billets

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Nice stack! Splitter looks good too. I'm moments away from finally getting mine too - will post piccys of shiny new toy hence forth!

[timtree81]

Thanks for all the info everyone, off to fuelwood to look at their splitters. See if they can sort out a 16T portable horizontal splitter. You never know!

 

speak to a company called murry agricultural engineers i bought my splitter off them ,gr8

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I am selling this one. i ran it on my David brown 880 so your db will be fine.

where in the country are you?

 

[Justme]

I have that one.

Run it on my MF 160.

 

Justme

[Michael C]

I have that one.

Run it on my MF 160.

 

Justme

 

 

Do you mean 165? or 168? Or have you got a very unusual tractor

[Johny Walker]

I am selling this one. i ran it on my David brown 880 so your db will be fine.

where in the country are you?

 

 

do you still have the splitter

[Justme]

Oops yeh 165 must have got it confused with my 590 4wd one lol. The splitter has been on that one too but oddly seems to work better at slower revs on the smaller one. But then the 590 is in the shop for a new hyd pump lol.

[treediver]

managed to find a suitable splitter for my needs - a Thor 37MVS10PD, 13 ton, road towable, B&S petrol engine, perfect for splitting big timber into billets

 

How much of your hard earned cash does it take to own a thor tow behind.

Im very tempted by the flood of cheap chinese copies on ebay and elsewhere but in abit doubtful on their reliability and backup.