fishy23

The forest master I've got the £240 one has. All I can say my initial doubts have been forgotten it has split knarly pine full of knots branches no problem now I've done about a couple of tonnes without a hitch. I must admit I wouldn't have bought a one initially as being a retired engineer (fishing industry) with quite a wide experience of hydraulics I would have classed it as a toy ( because of the price).But no it's paid for itself, I also liked the guy at Heaton who demo'd it and was part of the design work, it's simple spares seem to be available. And I didn't fancy paying big bucks for fancy mauls, I got mine from Lidl.

Well my daughter saw me chopping big knarly lumps and I found two days later on my birthday (70 now) a receipt for a forest master electric hydraulic splitter. I picked it up from the company in Heaton Newcastle I almost after I found what she bought told her to get a refund as an retired engineer I thought for 240£ it couldn't be much good but after three months splitting I'm pleasantly surprised yes it's not in the league of industrial hydraulics but it works fine no problems even with knotty pine large discs and it's built surprisingly well built for the price and after 7 years of maul chopping it's revolutionised my little fuel supply for my two wood fires. Would buy another that's for sure