Looks like a great log splitter

[Sawyer Rob]

Well, I don't want a splitter that I have to worry about a piece getting stuck in it, or have to examine each piece before putting it on the splitter.

Box splitters aren't anything new, but they don't look a lot like the one shown here, because the ones sold, are built to last, not so lightly constructed and under built like the one shown here.

All of my "easy" wood, goes to my BSM,

it's what's left, that goes to my splitter!

SR

 

[ultrarunner]

Is there still a strong market for firewood?

Don't know anyone left in the business as burning has become so regulated with new wood burning installs banned...

In high school I had a little side business splitting storm fall oak and selling local... can't give it away now.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

There's a HUGE firewood business where I live, we haven't regulated our lives away.....yet.

SR

 

[beenthere]

Wood splitter - HomemadeTools.net

This the best log splitter I have seen. Beats the ones you can buy. Why does know someone sell one like this one?

Chip

The idea is good. There are similar splitters with this concept on the market.

 

[DanMc77]

In NH it might be safe to say that most people heat with firewood. In MA, I heat with firewood. When the price went up to $250/cord for cut/split/delivered, then I switched to making my own. I'm 62, and the labor is good for me. I can't bring myself to beat my brains out at a gym, paying money to do labor that produces nothing.

 

[ultrarunner]

Still have a lot of friends in Austria and Austrians tend to be extremely environmentally conscious...

That said they are also practical and every new home, condo, townhouse and major remodels are required to have at least one wood burning chimney... it can be embedded and not used but kept at the ready just in case...

It can get really cold in winter and the country and will not be held hostage should oil, natural gas, electricity, etc. not be available...

 

[Renze]

Unusual splitting principle, it wont work in knotted oak like we have as firewood. Its better to split with only the wedge and not the anvil. With the arm you can take the log back to the slot on the return stroke.

I am collecting parts for such splitter. Bought two 100mm (4") cylinders from a waste press manufacturers bankruptcy auction for 140 euro, and two 80 liter PTO pumps from my mates cousin who got stuck with it on an auction, for 150 euro. What i need next, is a 160l/min control valve and a pump speed valve to combine the flow of both pumps below 80 bar, which requires about 35 PTO hp.

If i had to buy all parts new, i better heat with propane...

 

[Buggs67]

I prefer the simple splitter with the star-shape interchangable wedges.

 

[saint18z]

Easton made makes a really nice version of that:

 

[mikester]

I liked the looks of those skidsteer firewood processors - combo log handler, cutter and splitter.