Oaktree
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Curiously, what do you use them for? Once in a while I've seen people hauling water in something similar, but I'm not sure I'd want to do that in something that had been previously used for "digested organics".
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Lol, agreed. Firewood storage, man. In the metal crates, not the plastic liner. I pulled the plastic liners out as soon as i got them home today.Curiously, what do you use them for? Once in a while I've seen people hauling water in something similar, but I'm not sure I'd want to do that in something that had been previously used for "digested organics".
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Question about hydraulic wood splitters. On the horizontal/vertical splitter the wedge moves. If stuck in a log the wedge can retract and steel bars strip the chunk of wood off the wedge and try again. On horizontal only splitters that split the wood off the end, if the wood is stuck on the wedge, how do you clear it?
Splitting large rounds vertically is where this feature really shines.
Splitting large rounds vertically is where this feature really shines.
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I have a 20 ton wood splitter with a Honda GC 160 motor, that we can’t keep going. It starts, then sputters and dies. My friend is working on it, and he is an expert in small engines, but can’t figure out what the problem is. Does anyone have one of these motors and has a special problem getting it to stay running?
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I would put another round behind it and cycle the machine again. If that fails a sledge hammer.
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It doesn’t happen all that often. When it does usually I grab the chainsaw and cut as much as I can before it hits the wedge. Then there’s the sledgehammer but I haven’t had to do that in years. Being able the read the piece to minimize splitting effort makes a lot of difference. Also when I’m cutting to start with I’ll put a saw cut half way through challenging pieces.
Bocephous
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How old is the gas?
Is it non-ethanol?
I'd drain it completely, fill with non-ethanol, put a properly gapped new spark plug in and try running it again.
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Did all that. Removed and serviced the carb, replaced it’s gasket, still nothing. It starts, ten dies right away.
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I had one of these on a power washer. It was doing the same thing. I called the maker of the power washer and was told the Honda GC engines have a certain life span and that I should feel fortunate I got 11 years out of it. Perhaps it was 11 years chronologically but I doubt there was 150 hrs on the thing when it let go. It probably would have kept going w a complete rebuild of the engine but ti was not something I cared to get into.
It is not Honda's best product and it was called a "consumer" engine by the pw manufacturer.
I replaced that engine with a Subaru Robin and got even less service out of it. They no longer make stationary engines which is a good thing if they turned one of the best stationary engines made by man (Wisconsin) into one of the worst.
Your particular engine may be hydro-locked. Drain the oil and see if copious amounts come out where gasoline got into the crank case.
Re-fill it and hope the new carb rebuild doesn't drain through as the old one did. Be sure to always shutoff the fuel afterward.
You may get a bit more life out of it if a valve hasn't let go.
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