mn woodcutter
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I found this on YouTube. Interesting idea! 100 lb. Homemade Splitting Maul:
unique splitter
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Not sure exactly that guy was thinking? What are you actually saving with that welded mass of wasted metals?
you are bent over picking up rounds or moving them EVERY shot. then you have to push up on a spring loaded weight to "reload" the shot.
Crap that makes a Fiskers look like a nuclear reactor technology wise.. give me a $30 sledge any day over that thing...at least SOME times you don't have to bend over to pick up a round to move it.
you are bent over picking up rounds or moving them EVERY shot. then you have to push up on a spring loaded weight to "reload" the shot.
Crap that makes a Fiskers look like a nuclear reactor technology wise.. give me a $30 sledge any day over that thing...at least SOME times you don't have to bend over to pick up a round to move it.
mn woodcutter
ArboristSite Guru
Oh please tell me more about this fiskars!
firebrick43
Life is all about big saws
Another splitter video showing the machine spitting pefect grain wood.
Ohh give me you knarly, your crooked, and your hedge splitting videos.
Ohh give me you knarly, your crooked, and your hedge splitting videos.
Oh please tell me more about this fiskars!
Well it's this Swedish axe ...and anything Swedish is more better then anything else ever Sweeded befor.....
Apparently it's able to leap small buildings in a single bound...speeding bullets,,,blah blah blah
zogger
Tree Freak
That's a cool rig! Seems simple and effective.
UpOnTheHill
ArboristSite Guru
Big deal. My wife could split that straight grained wood with my axe, and with less effort than lifting that darn thing.
Hmm - maybe that thing would be good for splitting the huge rounds into manageable pieces to put on the splitter.
airwolf
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I don't think this this splitter would work well for huge rounds. The swinging weight is a hammer, forcing the rounds against a fixed wedge. A heavy round has a large inertia. A large percentage of the weights energy would be wasted just getting the log to start moving. I think this splitter might work better on large rounds if the wedge was on the swinging hammer, and the log remained stationary against a foot plate.
An awful lot of energy going into splitting wood that would split with an ax easily.
Harry K
i just wanna know how you get it to woodlot. i didn't see any wheels.
But then you'd have the problem of the wood getting stuck in the wedge, and you couldn't exactly swing that back for a second blow. Perhaps a sledge-and-wedge would be best after all.
iowa
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Dumb.
mn woodcutter
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Agreed. There is a lot of labor and materials that went into building something that doesn't make much sense.
You don't have to like the tool, but you better remember it came from FINLANDWell it's this Swedish axe ...and anything Swedish is more better then anything else ever Sweeded befor.....
