tsc kinetic splitter being recalled?

**Fixer2026** · 08-05-2012, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by TreePointer

More info please.

Who ordered you to DESTROY the units?

SpeeCo? (I think they would recall rather order you to destroy. Destroying/demolition can make for more cost and liability.)
Tractor Supply?
Your management/boss?
Other?

Why?

Speeco pulled this splitter off the market. They told the stores to distory the units. We are to take out the rack and ship it to Speeco as proof and to see the unit can not be used. First off teh units cycle too fast to be safe. The problem is it goes from 0 power to 28 tons it less than a quarter of a second and the parts just can not handle that force over and over.

http://www.arboristsite.com/firewood.../179047-27.htm

At Home In The Woods - Page 337

thought these were recalled...

As far as I know no one has yet been hurt. The stop sale order came from Speeco. I thnik they decided to cut there loses on this before something did happen.

**Fixer2026** · 08-05-2012, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by TreePointer

More info please.

Who ordered you to DESTROY the units?

SpeeCo? (I think they would recall rather order you to destroy. Destroying/demolition can make for more cost and liability.)
Tractor Supply?
Your management/boss?
Other?

Why?

I just posted a long reply in this thread and it just dissappered. Speeco is the one that gave the order to stop all sales and to distory all remaining unsold units. We are to remove the rack and send it to Speeco as proof and so the unit can not be used. No one has been hurt yet that I have heard of but it seems that Speeco has decided to act before that happened. The unit goes from 0 power to 28 tons in under a quarter of a second and the parts just can not handel that over and over. They tryied a new and better rack and that still did not hold up. I feel Speeco is just cutting there loses b y doing this.

By the way there is a lot of threads on this site about this.

**Fixer2026** · 08-05-2012, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by BSD

Yes. I know. I have one. We were talking about the engines

OH, sorry.
Now I did have a log splitter blow out a cylinder on me at the shop a year or so back. The whole end blow off and I got a bath in oil. I was luckly none of the metal came my way. Can not remember the brand name.

**TreePointer** · 08-05-2012, 06:49 PM

It's not just Chinese engines these days. I had a 2009 build B&S Vanguard 23 h.p. engine blow a rod just under 70 hours on an Husqvarna lawn tractor. It's a commercial grade made in USA (North Carolina) engine!