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Mine's a "Max Axe" from Heartnett in Ireland, but it's a rebadged generic Chinese one. I'd say they're all pretty much the same across the board. I wondered about the extension cord thing ( I use mine with a 30 meter cord! ) - had an electrician friend check it out while running, put the meter up it's skirt and we split a few tough logs. He said the amp draw spikes only when it hits the end of the power stroke and you keep the handle pressed down (which is stupid anyway) or if it meets a hard stop like an unsplittable knot and you keep it going. So basically, borderline, but fine, as long as you don't force it. Found a pic of mine. I took the wee wheels off the back and moved them to the front, bodged them on with bits of the second activation arm I cut up. The "handguard flange" on the left arm which protects the hand holding the activation handle, got cut off as well. Ergonomics. Bought some proper wheels and a bit of rod to replace the back wheels, it rolls nice now, easy to move around and stands a few inches higher, which before the hand grip was a bit too low and caused me back pain. I'm 5'11". It's perfect now. Also replaced the hydraulic oil reservoir nut underneath. Went to use it one day and all the oil had leaked out - the nut was missing. Don't know how. Had to find a same thread but and silicone a washer on it, to seal, but it's been fine. The basic unit it solid and reliable, it's just little things that break. Still worth every penny and hour of faffing. If you ever do upgrade the wheels, go with inflatable instead if poly - the weight if the splitter causes a dent in the yellow poly ones.

I paid 580 euro for mine. Worth every cent.

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Try rubbing nettles on your knuckles. Burny but it's said to work, ancient remedy. Or bee stings, if you can get em. They have a long history of being a miracle treatment for arthritis.

Something like this is better. 1. Vertical is easier and more efficient. Split logs stay on the table (kind of) and can be rotated 90 degrees for another split. Get a wide wedge that fits over the blade . Be prepared to rework the edge of the big wedge with a grinder and file to get a proper edge. 2. Get 3000 watts. It will have a 15 amp "industrial" plug and they will tell you to install a 15 amp outlet. You don't need to do this, it will run off a regular domestic plug and outlet, even with an extension cord. But don't go more than 3000w for the electric motor. Get 9 ton. Slow but strong. The wide wedge speeds up the splitting for easy stuff and you still have the thin blade for tough stuff. Remove one of the activator handles and modify for one handed operation. This is essential, and easy to do. It should have a return stroke adjustable limiter, so you can set the stroke hight for the size of logs you are working with. This saves an awful lot of time.

Celox rapid z-fold in a zippered chest pocket for climbing. Got to be one hand, either hand, deployable. Lone working, even lone climbing, is a thing. We live in a time of cotton wool culture which is incompatible with the economic reality of some operators. Most often, reality wins... risk mitigation measures and extreme caution will have to suffice. People react differently to extreme injury and sudden amputation. There's no way to know how an individual will react until it happens. This has been demonstrated innumerable times by battlefield reports. An interesting read is "A treatise on musket ball wounds" (or something titled along those lines) from the American civil war. It was noted by the field surgeons that some soldiers would lose an arm to a cannon ball, casually twist their handkerchief around the stump and mooch on over to the hospital tent. Others would freak out and faint from a relatively minor bullet wound and think it was much worse than it actually was...

People get the government they deserve. A subservient, intellectually lazy, weak spirited people get abusive psychopaths. Cause and effect. The psychopaths produce policy and laws that further cow the people. If the people comply, they go further in the hole and the psychos are further emboldened. It's a reinforcement cycle. Once the slide into serfdom has started, it's very hard to stop and reverse. After a few generations the government schooling indoctrinates kids to be good little slaves...you end up owning nothing and being happy...not only Scotland in this mess, though they may be a bit further along to road to cringing serfdom. It's the malaise of our time; we are an overfed, spiritually bankrupt bunch of wasters (most, not all) and we produce government to match.

Great idea. Clever

One way to beat the system is buy industrial. Way more expensive but guaranteed to outlive you.

The EU allegedly is taking steps to address this, though it's early days yet. "Right of repair".... Certain minimum repairability standards, etc.

Some real nightmares in this thread...

Probably butaline. Try a bicycle tube repair patch, with the glue provided.

If I've got my history right, the ancient Scots (Picts) were an indigenous people to the British isles, who no longer exist. The modern Scots actually migrated from Ireland. Ireland was Scotia Major, to the Romans, and northern Britain was Scotia Minor. They were Gaels (Celts) originally from Spain, and further afield.

Fenix, if you're a flashlight geek. 100% Chinese domestic company, roots to branches.

I've a €100 Florabest saw, good chance it's a rebadged Zomax. Soft start counterspring pull cord, alloy body. Perfectly fine and useable, but slightly temperamental. If you have the feel for 2 stroke machines it's not a bother. Chain tensioner can loosen. Break is oversensitive. Leaks chain oil. The refinement isn't there but it hasn't let me down.

I think he I think he said he heats the kilns with wood burners...to be fair. But yeah, **************** the rules. Embracing stupid rules leads society to totalitarianism, look at Oz. "Rules mate, rules!" The mindset is part of a cultural death spiral. Disregard for any and all rules also leads to disaster. It's a matter of using reason.

Try and pick up a pair of used Treehogs for real cheap, with a simple modification they can be made much better. There's a thread about it on here

Try Brave browser.

I'm serious. And don't call me Shirley....

Even if we wanted to, where would we start?? The big one looks to be fifteen foot across, if we take the guy to be five feet tall (people were shorter back then). I suppose with a seven foot bar on an 880 it would be theoretically possible to get the cuts to meet up. If it was wider than 14" then you'd have a chunk of holding wood in the center that you'd have to bore out through the gob side. I wouldn't fancy it.

Wondered the same thing. They milled it in situe I suppose. Even with modern machines, how would one move such a log out of the forest? Unbelievably determined people they were...

Sounds serviceable, but rather dull.

Gerald Berenek explained why logging the old growth actually benefitted the biodiversity of the forest, especially with sequoia. Not that the really huge specimens shouldn't have been spared, ideally, and nowadays of course, they are. But it's not all black and white.

Thanks for your input. I wondered this. How would that work do you think? The motor only spins one way, the pump only spins one way, so the reversal of flow is due to a valve change. Maybe a too sudden change in direction makes a kind of resistance shock to the motor?

My vertical hydraulic electric log splitter manual says not to suddenly change direction of the splitting wedge...that is, if the wedge is on the return stroke, going up, don't suddenly push the power lever and make it go back to power stroke. The machine has a settable stroke stop, and it said to let the ram hit the stop, before applying power again. The reason for this, IIRC, is to avoid a sudden change in direction of flow, which is bad for it, much like allowing your car to come to a complete stop, before shifting to reverse. Makes sense, but.... I've seen digger men yank the controls all over the place, they don't pause before changing direction of the boom, bucket etc. There's the "jiggle the bucket" manouver, to get stuck mud out of it, which is rapidly and repeatedly changing direction of flow to the bucket ram. I've done it myself... What think you, hydraulic experts?