Guys,
We appreciate the feedback from the forum, and that is part of the reason why we sponsor it. There are a lot of great ideas here, and real world users, who are the best sounding boards. We produce over 50k splitters a year, and many of the members here have some of those units, but those are more consumer products. OUR VERSION of 'commercial' is our dealer network, rental yards, and arborist / tree care company owners. Clearly this is not a unit that would churn out thousands upon thousands of cords a year as a full time business. There are much more expensive products that will be better suited for full time wood producers. We are not aspiring to produce that product.....yet. What we ARE doing is building this unit to compete with: Timberwolf, MightyOx, Barreto, etc. With that in mind we think our specs, performance and price point will be really attractive. We created the Vinsetta brand to enter more non-big box channels apart from the very successful, and growing, DHT brand. The economies of scale generated by the DHT brand will ensure that the Vinsetta brand is very competitive, in a way others will not be able to match.
Again we appreciate the feedback and we know there are 'bigger badder' units out there.....its not what we are going for. If we can sell a couple hundred to one thousand of these a year it would be great. To keep the price reasonable for dealers and rental companies you can not offer every design option a la cart.
Just to clarify... it is an electric start engine and other engines will be available (though rental yards almost require Honda GX engines), Total hyd capacity is 25 gallons, stroke reducers are available, hyd coolers available.
Also, @sandhill, love the "4-way table" idea....we already have something like that in CAD. Just have not made one yet.