johncinco
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Well after a very, very long wait, my HF splitter arrived (ok a couple weeks ago now) They delayed it twice and sent me postcards saying I could back out of the deal if I wanted to. I see the price has already gone up, and the shipping too. Arrived on a big pallet and I had to put it together. Everything was pretty straight forward. Some of the nuts had come off somewhere in shipment, and finding 14mm, course thread, nylock nuts proved to be impossible in my small town. I had to buy new bolts and nuts. Also the hydraulic oil filter was crushed. Some of the labels on the hoses were missing, but it was not toohard to figure out. The wedge has a four way adapter to it that I found worked great, but there was a pin holding it down. I took out the pin and let it "float" and it did a much better job. The wood would pinch between the horizontals and the bed and jam up pretty good. The log lift does an outstanding job. After seeing the thread on the split fire I was concerned. I loaded one of the biggest pieces I could find and licked it right up, I even gave the wheel a lift and I could not make the machine flip over. The lift in the horizontal position makes a great table to work off of, but I plan on adding another table after the wedge. 30 ton, 9 HP Robbins motor, 8 gallons of hydraulic, 24" throw, 2 or 4 way wedge. Log lift. hitch, chains, everything you need to split. On the third day of using it a really nasty piece was getting split and "popped" and slammed into my hand. I think the bone where my thumb joins my habd is broken, so getting anything done now is a real problem. I'll update later after I get some more use out of it, but I am extremely please with this thing so far. On with the pics!