There are lots of YouTube videos of screw-type splitters in use. I honestly cannot understand the amount of "spook" associated with the vast majority of them.
Watch this and explain to me how this is any more dangerous than a large drill press, or a table saw, or a chainsaw, or....
YouTube - WOOD SCREW SPLITTER - GAS POWERED
Here's another one....electric powered for smaller stuff:
YouTube - Kegelspalter (Eigenbau)
Now if you're jacking up one side of a vehicle, propping the throttle, and have no way of shutting things down in an emergency....that's another story altogether. But then it's hardly wood splitting in and of itself that's making the situation dangerous.
Watch this and explain to me how this is any more dangerous than a large drill press, or a table saw, or a chainsaw, or....
YouTube - WOOD SCREW SPLITTER - GAS POWERED
Here's another one....electric powered for smaller stuff:
YouTube - Kegelspalter (Eigenbau)
Now if you're jacking up one side of a vehicle, propping the throttle, and have no way of shutting things down in an emergency....that's another story altogether. But then it's hardly wood splitting in and of itself that's making the situation dangerous.