which log splitter???

[Alycidon]

Hello my friend and i hope you are keeping well:001_smile:

We must have a good catchup so i will send you a email:thumbup:

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Thanks also for your replies gents!!!

 

Still got a pulse at least !!.

 

Look forward to catching up.

 

 

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[rayzor]

Hello all , and thanks for your advice , just one more bit needed now please..

I have decided i would like a petrol / upright log splitter and have taken a liking to the Titan Pro .

Thing is do i go for the 8 ton or the 10 ton???

The 10 ton is roughly £200 more but do i really need the extra force to split for home use???

Thanks ,

Ray..

[kev7937]

Hello all , and thanks for your advice , just one more bit needed now please..

 

I have decided i would like a petrol / upright log splitter and have taken a liking to the Titan Pro .

 

Thing is do i go for the 8 ton or the 10 ton???

 

The 10 ton is roughly £200 more but do i really need the extra force to split for home use???

 

Thanks ,

 

Ray..

 

 

Depends how knotty your wood is and wether you can afford to bin the stuff that won't split.

 

That said 2 ton isn't a great increase

[spandit]

I've just been using a 25 tonne machine that I hired for the week - it struggled on some really knotty pine but got through it in the end. For £84 I can just hand it back and let some other b*gger worry about looking after it for the other 51 weeks of the year. Once I've hopefully built up a good stock of wood again, I can just hire it in and process it all (especially now I've worked out how to modify the controls to make it far easier to use - still 2 handed but basically slipping long bars over both handles). It can split vertically too but a bit over your budget - I think they're about £1800 to buy

 

http://www.mowdirect.co.uk/mtd-lawnflite-ls550-25-ton-log-splitter.html

[cornish wood burner]

Depends how knotty your wood is and wether you can afford to bin the stuff that won't split.

 

That said 2 ton isn't a great increase

 

All my wood splits with 8 tonne. Remember if you only have a few pieces it fails on you could run the saw through them. £200 extra buys a lot of cutting. As kev says it depends on your wood.

[harvey b davison]

Machine mart do a small petrol splitter for about £600. Dont know how good it is though.

 

Also had a quick look on the oxdale site, i quite fancied the look of the towable one,(RT400).

[Isabelle68]

I know of two people who have those machine mart splitters and love them

[Big T]

Think the lawnflite splitter has a briggs engine instead of the "chonda" one on the titan pro, might be worth going for the lawnflite as its a better engine! I'm considering one, toss up between that or the 12 ton rock machinery one!

[Big T]

Machine Mart machine looks ok but very low to the ground, might get backache using it for any considerable time!? The rock 12 ton is about £200 more but higher off the ground, Briggs engine and full spares backup!

[rayzor]

Thanks for all your help members!!

All the best............