Northland
Platinum Member
Earlier this year I had skidded out some 22" diameter maple that I had bucked into 20" rounds that my Hearthstone wood stove would accommodate.
I had not anticipated those large, long rounds being impossible to hand split with my Fiskars Super Splitting Axe. When I tried and failed to split them by hand I rented a big SpeeCo splitter and ran it 14 hours over the weekend to split about 7 cords of that big maple. That was insane work
I liked that gas powered SpeeCo so much I just bought the 3pt version at my local TSC store. They had one sitting there for the past year so they gave it to me for $649 Canadian.
I now have it running through the WR Long electric valve kit that powers the cylinder on my Tatro bucket grapple that sits on the bucket of my Kubota B7800.
I don't plan on ever putting the splitter on my tractor's 3pt hitch. I will leave it beside my new pole barn and bring my wood to it with my tractor.
I wanted the SpeeCo splitter because of it's ability to split horizontally and vertically.
It took some mucking around with fittings and hoses but it now works off the same valve my grapple works from. I just move the quick disconnect equipped hoses from one implement to another.
My neighbor did a great job welding braces into the crappy stand the splitter came with.
I am going to have walls of wood over the next few weeks as I have ten or more dead maples to fell.
I had not anticipated those large, long rounds being impossible to hand split with my Fiskars Super Splitting Axe. When I tried and failed to split them by hand I rented a big SpeeCo splitter and ran it 14 hours over the weekend to split about 7 cords of that big maple. That was insane work
I liked that gas powered SpeeCo so much I just bought the 3pt version at my local TSC store. They had one sitting there for the past year so they gave it to me for $649 Canadian.
I now have it running through the WR Long electric valve kit that powers the cylinder on my Tatro bucket grapple that sits on the bucket of my Kubota B7800.
I don't plan on ever putting the splitter on my tractor's 3pt hitch. I will leave it beside my new pole barn and bring my wood to it with my tractor.
I wanted the SpeeCo splitter because of it's ability to split horizontally and vertically.
It took some mucking around with fittings and hoses but it now works off the same valve my grapple works from. I just move the quick disconnect equipped hoses from one implement to another.
My neighbor did a great job welding braces into the crappy stand the splitter came with.
I am going to have walls of wood over the next few weeks as I have ten or more dead maples to fell.