LD1
Epic Contributor
Listening to the comments on arborist site, they are quite powerful splitters. But they do sometimes take more than one whack.
The motor wont stall even if the ram does because it is driven with a centrifigual clutch.
And there is go getting peices stuck. Because you just whack them again. If you run out of stroke and the peice is still hung up (taller peice than the wedge) you just use another peice to force it off with the next split. Same as a horizontal only hydraulic splitter.
And those rack and pinions seem to hold up pretty well. Those guys on AS that have them and have split hundreds of cords say that they show VERY little wear.
But I have not seen any of this first hand. Just going off what them guys say.
The motor wont stall even if the ram does because it is driven with a centrifigual clutch.
And there is go getting peices stuck. Because you just whack them again. If you run out of stroke and the peice is still hung up (taller peice than the wedge) you just use another peice to force it off with the next split. Same as a horizontal only hydraulic splitter.
And those rack and pinions seem to hold up pretty well. Those guys on AS that have them and have split hundreds of cords say that they show VERY little wear.
But I have not seen any of this first hand. Just going off what them guys say.