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Watched all this crap up in Scotland for years now, Sturgeon and the Greens were mad for it. Pure lunacy and anyone supporting it should be seeking help.

Clearing up to move house and found the old handle set up I converted to single handed use. Hopefully the pics are good enough to explain how it was done. Anyone up in Aberdeenshire is welcome to it.

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Let’s see you get through 3’ diameter logs and then split them at 5’ long 😂😂😂😂 Treat yourself to an upgrade this Xmas 🎅 👍

Nah lets just leave it as it is😇it’s a Sunday after all. Yeah if I was heading out to ring up stuff that size it would be as you say “ big saw time” 👍

What saw do prefer or use then ?? How you managing to split logs of this lengths or for that matter handle them. 5’ long and 2-3’ in diameter ain’t light.

That’s a big log burner too Stubby

A beanie with a hole in it where the greedy bastard beagle chewed it after me using it to hold a hot pie one day left it covered in gravy. Not very professional or safe bud but working alone so no pics today 😞🤷‍♂️ There you go Oldfeller mind you it was an award winning pie so I can’t blame the dog too much, Browns the butchers in Turriff 🥰 made on site proper tasty.

I agree 🤮there 🤦can’t believe I’ve posted that up.

You sure it’s 2-3ft diameter ?? I’ve been cutting and splitting logs all day, Dead standing Elm and some Ash, some of those are 2-3ft occasionally bigger diameter. I had 2 saws with me a 461 with a 20” bar and a 661 with a 36” bar to ring up the bigger logs. A 261 with a 14” bar as was mentioned earlier is gonna be a waste of time and effort if you have plenty at 3ft diameter. You might want to consider hiring a guy in with saws and kit etc if they are that size. Someone who has the right saws and knowledge will get a lot done in a shift, you could always be splitting at the same time.

I tend to think leaving things at that length and then trying to split them might not work out very well.

@Mark BolamFound that Mark, it was just some 25mmx5mm flat bar I had, at the bottom of each drill the holes to match what’s on the individual handles currently there and weld the round bar 👍👍job done, you can as I did later move the holes slightly to increase leverage and reduce the throw if you are fussy, like I say it worked great.

Mark They can be swapped to single handed operation but the inlets and outlets etc are all on the wrong side, by far the best ( plus my original rock spool valve was goosed) was to swap the whole thing out, the bracket itself which it’s bolted onto is just something I had lying around, I took it to a local semi retired hydraulic guy who sorted it in no time. Total cost wasn’t too bad, the new spool valve was the same as the link put up in an earlier post. I originally had a length of flat bar bent in a U shape with holes to match where the two individual handles attach below the cover, onto that I welded a 6” piece of round tube. To be honest I preferred it as the extra height suited me and it was only the fact the original went tits up that I ended up fitting a replacement. I couldn’t find any pics but I’ll do a quick sketch and stick that on in a minute, very easy to make and works well.