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I love the cloud in the photo... and the water tank ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by whipski
I’ve got a 120v plug in hydraulic splitter which was given to me basically brand new. I have to say that It is slow compared to a big gas powered unit. I think it might be a five ton splitter(?). Maybe 2 ton? I can’t remember. It’s as small as you can get I’d say. In using it, it’s on par with manually splitting wood, time wise. You don’t spend time bending over and resetting wood to be split. And it saves elbow strain. A few years ago I had my three year old running the controls, while I loaded the logs. Did I mention it was slow😀? All in all, it’s been a great machine. Commercially itQuote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
Wouldn’t fly, but it’s fine for home use. You just gotta hand in your man card before using it
I've been paying local ski patrollers to buck up my wood. Been getting 10 cord semi loads delivered. The upside of beetle kill I guess. Trying to avoid exhaust and noise. I enjoy running the splitter tho.
Just curious how much are they are charge for a semi load. I called a guy that delivers around here. This year he is charging $2k for a load that will be around 16-18 cord. He's gone up a little bit since the last time we had a delivery.Quote:
Originally Posted by whipski
The windstorm took out some big tree at a friends cabin this week, so I will get a a truck load or two for helping clean up. They can't burn the lodge pole because his mother is allergic to it - never heard that before. It'll be perfect for next year.
if you need gas you need gas but most people don't need gas powered because they can are splitting at home close to 115V, Its basically an electric motor running the hydralic pump intsead of a gas engine on wheels and all the yada that entails so electric are smaller to store or transport, less $$$ to buy, no maintenace, no fuelQuote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
Its possible to jam a piece of fire wood up against the safety button and let the hydralic pump run continuously makes it a little faster, the small home use the gas powered i used wasn't really much faster cuz you still gotta wait for the bed to reset every time just like an electric
i would put an electric up on a bench so the bed is at waist height and screw it to something solid in your wood shed so you don't have to bend over, maybe have the wood split & stay on the bench, that way you pick a round up once split it, put the split wood in the stack without bending over
for home use the bigger electrics are 6 ton the smaller are 2 1/2 ton, around here they usually go on sale in summer for about 4-500 CAN$ ,
a gas powered is is more like 1500 $
6 ton splitter is next to worthless in anything hard, sizeable or with knots. $1500 gas splitter is 24-30 ton and will go thru almost anything like butter.
I hope no one in the extreme fire danger zones are cutting wood right now.
ever actualy use both ? Most of the stuff around here was smaller but IME the 6 ton was going thru 18-24" rounds with knots but but you could just take another go at itQuote:
Originally Posted by Sharon Needles
I've said it before here. I'm pretty happy with this little 5ton 120v. It's slow but splits decent rounds for around here. I'm almost only running pine and fir through it. It's slow and I can hand split just as fast if not faster but way easier on the back. I have a covered back patio and whatever didnt get split before winter will get split under the patio with hot coffee and weed. I can just wheel a gorilla cart full of rounds next to a comfy chair and go to town. I bought it because we bought our place midwinter and needed something my wife could use easy. Figured if it lasted one season I'd be happy and have been pleasantly surprised how well it works for a couple hundred bucks.Attachment 339576
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Fallen tree(s) keeping me in fire pit wood for a while.
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This is about what mine looks like also. It’s slow, but it’s also manageable. I do like XXXer’s idea of putting it on a table or higher mountQuote:
Originally Posted by lifelinksplit
We struggled bad with some green oak. I do think they have a place and have strongly considered getting one.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
My setup would be stacking rounds in a shop/garage and splitting as needed. It would free up some precious dry weather time for other chores.
It doesn't count as firewood until it's split, stacked and top covered for at least 2 full summers, preferably 3.
Get yourself on the three year plan and don't look back. You're welcome.
Is the tonnage rating equal between electric and gas splitters?
I split a bunch by hand but for the past 3 years, I have rented a 34 ton gas splitter for a day or two @ $90/day. I find blue oak takes a lot of time to split by hand, whether green or seasoned (I have a moisture meter). Some of my oak is well north of 24” diameter. Most of my pine is over 24” and I have one felled pine tree on the ground (background of my recent photo) that was over 50” at the butt (I’ll have to noodle that thing to be able to move it.
Three year plan? I’m fucked then. I just burned the last few rounds I had in the last few days since it snowed here in Colorado. I’ve never gotten a year ahead, much less three. I just go get my two cords of pine/spruce a year and split it. It’s usually standing dead though, and seldom wider than 16”Quote:
Originally Posted by glademaster
Standing dead comfier is ready to burn as is
Ya think? If there is standing dead everywhere, who cuts green wood and stacks it for three years to dry? Unless that’s what you have. I have shitty dry pines, so that’s what I burn. Elsewhere, people have oak, apple, and other quality woods to burn. I’d stack and dry that type of wood if I had it aroundQuote:
Originally Posted by Sharon Needles
I’m a burn whatcha got kinda guy, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jethro
Smoke em if ya got em!
Lemme grab my time machine. I guess Washington is super wet and needs more time to season...Quote:
Originally Posted by glademaster
I've been trying to get on the two year plan for a decade now. The more I have, the more we burn, it could be one cord or 6. All but a half cord will be gone by March. Perpetually on the 6mo plan, it seems.
10 cord load was $700. One of our patrollers bucked 6 cords in about 5 hours at $15/hr. It was all helicopter wood that was flown off the mountain. With headphones my little electric splitter is a nice way to spend a cool fall day. Affordable heat!
yeah i've used one sitting on flat ground and the splitter i ran at a lodge was up on a frame so the bed was at about waist height, the pieces fell on the ground but i think it would be easier on the body if you didnt have to bend down to pick the pieces upQuote:
Originally Posted by Jethro
I have these two videos bookmarked, one shows usage of the full range of hand tools for splitting and then jumps to a large gas-powered splitter -- rentable from HD as they point out.
The second video shows an electric/flywheel splitter which I've been jonesing to pull the trigger on for the past few seasons.
Why anyone would use an axe or a maul after seeing the Fiskars tools in action is worth discussing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiMaoIIaCu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUQdR2xUoes
Are those ^^ logs your “seasoning stack?”
Here’s another “seasoning” pile (part of this winter’s wood)
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Currently, I ain’t doing any of this shit today. Too smokey.
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Cut and split about a cord and a half today, maybe a bit more. I’m sore. Time for a beer.
About the same here, trying to get the "seasoning pile" split and stacked before winter. Hopefully this stack is 2 winters out. Most of it was dropped 4 years ago, bucked this spring.Quote:
Originally Posted by t-the-east
Jealous of your lift arm. I had to noodle most of these and they were still back breaking. I've got log tongs for the tractor put it's not very efficient with only one person, a 2nd set of hands to hook on and run the splitter helps.Attachment 339912
Wood sheds: t-the-East and krp8128, you guys just sink your posts into augered holes?
Mines more of a crib then a shed, as it's 4'x8'.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
The verticals are just on a couple concrete block, and the base is about 8" above that. Built it cheap with mostly salvage materials, but it holds about 1.5 cord.
I planned to make bigger shed (to get the mower, splitter and wood under a roof) now that I've cleared some space in the yard. Would like to do concrete columns, but I did just pull up some 4x4 that had been buried for 30 yrs, they look almost new. Not sure the new ground contact (not the home depot crap, from a real yard) is still that good though. Old telephone poles can be cheap too.
Covid lumber prices have put a few projects on hold, so I might just make another crib to get the new pile under cover. Have to see what I can scrounge
Yup, mines just mostly cedar trees I cut on the property and set them in about 3’ deep. 2x4 roof framing and 4 sheets of galvanized roofing. Whole thing cost about $200.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
Hardwood pallets from work for the floor
Thanks! Dougw has also shared his design. My good spots, I don’t think I can dig deep holes w/o reaching serious roots. Am now considering deck piers. That’s a project for another year for me.
Finished up splitting the mess I had going out front. Now just need to decide where to stack it. This was dropped 4 years ago and should be headed to the stove in 2 seasons.
Pile is over 6' tall, probably 10' wide. Pulled the splitter forward a few times during to keep the stack going. Most of that started as 30" dia oak logs, had to noodle a few down to quarters. Tossed a few crotches in the burn pile at the end, too much work to get a few gnarled pieces.
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Any real downsides(besides buying new chains) to throwing a 24" bar on my husky? Its 20" now.Attachment 341123
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^ That should work, especially in softwoods. Might bog a little if you file the rakers too much, but otherwise I think you’d be fine. It’s a 455, right?
Edit: I just looked it up, a Husky says it’ll work.
https://www.husqvarna.com/us/product...her/965030254/
what he said
you can't use any old chains or bars you already ownQuote:
Originally Posted by lifelinksplit
I've been running a 20" on my 455 rancher and 24" on my 562xp. If the bars were interchangeable I would have tried the 24" on the rancher by now, that would be a sweet bucking machine. I suggest you try a skip-tooth semi chisel chain on your rancher. Makes for much faster sharpening and cuts seemingly as fast. That full house starts to drive me crazy about half way through a sharpen session.Quote:
Originally Posted by lifelinksplit
Thanks y'all. Yep 455 rancher. Only pine and Doug fir. I've been pretty happy with the 20" bar but I've been cutting a few ponderosa lately that have been close with the 20". I'll have to look into the skip-tooth. I'm lazy and sometimes alternate sides on sharpening(in the field).
Edit: Also I've been thinking about getting a smaller saw for limbing and maybe light duty work as a "trim" saw in log cabin duty(maybe more work than home) Not brand loyal but do have a sthil dealer here. I know there's are ton of options just starting to think about it.
If I’m paying attention, I use a skip tooth chain for my 24” bar when cutting big soft wood rounds.