dodge man
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I have a 15 ton gas powered splitter. It will split anything, it might slow down aNd grunt a little, but it will split it. They seem to make the wedge a little smaller which I wish the wedge was a little taller.
You can live with a splitter that’s too big but one that’s too small ends up being a toy that collects dust. 22 ton with Harbor Freight motor will make you proud. Harbor Freight use to sell spare motors for $99 bucks. So far it’s a tough little engine on mine plus has a gas turn off keeping from having gas left in carburetor for extended times not used.I got a wood stove for my barn/workshop and will likely put one in my house to cut down on winter heating too. I have plenty of free wood on my land so that's not an issue.
I really don't want yet another engine to maintain so I decided to go with am electric log splitter. Most of what I've seen doesn't seem particularly robust but I did find the Boss 16-ton, 2-way electric splitter. It seems very well regarded and is always on back order. I went ahead and got mine ordered so I'll have it for next summer. I also got the 4-way cross wedge to help speed things up.
Does anyone here have any experience with this or it's smaller 2-way 10 ton model?
Here is a picture and a video:
I'll find out. The largest I'll be splitting from my property will be about 15-16" and not usually too tough. If it's too much for the 4-way I'll go back to the standard wedge.
A new neighbor actually complained about me shooting in my back pasture..... I always stepped way back when it did that. Many times the "split" was more like an explosion. The two split chunks would come off the splitter with a whole lot of force.
I'm trying to figure out how doing all of that, is easier than using a tractor to lift the logs up over a trailer and cut them into firewood there.Since you have a horizontal splitter - like I did - you could find this useful.
Lifting my pine rounds up onto the splitter got to be really OLD. After an hour or so my back began to rebell.
I split all my wood out where the trees fell. So this options presented no problems.
With the bucket on the FEL - dig a shallow trench. Roll the splitter into this trench. If you do it right - the I-beam on the splitter will then be dead level with the ground. No more lifting - just rolling.