The "Lets see your splitter" post inspired me to take some shots a new splitter my Father in Law put together for a friend/customer recently. He wanted to make sure everything ran correctly, and since we had already worked up all of his wood, he brought it across the road to my place and let me demo it for a few days.
It is a 50ton splitter powered by a 13.5hp Honda, if memory serves me correctly. Here's a few shots of it's "run-in" before it gets final touch up paint and cleaning.
First lever is to run the splitter back and forth. The other one is to flip the splitter to vertical if desired.
I've never had a splitter, and am not that familiar w/ them, so I'm not sure if this is common place or not, but it sure is nice. It allows you to set the lenght you want to ram to return to if you're cutting wood shorter than the full stroke. The guy he built it for wanted to be able to cut 4' lengths for his fire pit (he doesn't heat w/ wood), so the extra ram travel can waist a lot of time unless you're constantly on the controls. This little feature eliminates that.
Busting through a 20" Doug Fir round.
The "woods boss" sitting on the deck waiting for me to get back to work. For reference, that's a 32" bar on the 7900.
Another shot of the "boss" checking my stack. Notice the Fiskars handle in the pic. It's responsible for most of the splitting in this stack, but it sure went a lot quicker w/ hydraulic help. On a side note, you might notice the tape on the inside of the "finger catch". The Fiskars seems to bite my fingers right there w/o it, and it helps out a ton.
Biggest round of the day. 30" of Doug Fir goodness didn't even slow it down.
Like I said earlier, most of this was hand split w/ the Fiskars, but the Catasplitter sure made life easier for the last few cords.
It is a 50ton splitter powered by a 13.5hp Honda, if memory serves me correctly. Here's a few shots of it's "run-in" before it gets final touch up paint and cleaning.
First lever is to run the splitter back and forth. The other one is to flip the splitter to vertical if desired.
I've never had a splitter, and am not that familiar w/ them, so I'm not sure if this is common place or not, but it sure is nice. It allows you to set the lenght you want to ram to return to if you're cutting wood shorter than the full stroke. The guy he built it for wanted to be able to cut 4' lengths for his fire pit (he doesn't heat w/ wood), so the extra ram travel can waist a lot of time unless you're constantly on the controls. This little feature eliminates that.
Busting through a 20" Doug Fir round.
The "woods boss" sitting on the deck waiting for me to get back to work. For reference, that's a 32" bar on the 7900.
Another shot of the "boss" checking my stack. Notice the Fiskars handle in the pic. It's responsible for most of the splitting in this stack, but it sure went a lot quicker w/ hydraulic help. On a side note, you might notice the tape on the inside of the "finger catch". The Fiskars seems to bite my fingers right there w/o it, and it helps out a ton.
Biggest round of the day. 30" of Doug Fir goodness didn't even slow it down.
Like I said earlier, most of this was hand split w/ the Fiskars, but the Catasplitter sure made life easier for the last few cords.