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Have you worked out how much energy could be got from stream? Is it enough to run house / heat pump/water heating and sell rest back to the power company? I would gravity feed water to large thermal mass (wall or floor ) in large flow and control flow through...

I have a husqvarna wooden handle hatchet. It takes and holds a sharp edge. It does chop and split well for short periods of time. It's a beast of a hatchet. But it's heavy head soon becomes tiresome. And because of the handle shape it is uncomfortable to choke up on...

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. Your responses are worth alot ...... more than the testimonials on the superaxe website because you are not trying to sell me one! Cheers

So what are the cycle time and normal rate of production on the superaxe? On the superaxe if you get a knotty block of wood and the blade contacts the wood perfectly the top of the wood , what happens? Being only a three inch ram. Does the superaxe work better...

Instead of using a hatchet to make kindling . I welded a 8 inch steel wedge onto a lump of flat steel. I hammer splits down the wedge. After a hatchet tip went sideways over 3 inches in wood that it should have gone straight through. My fingers are worth to much.

The log lift in action. I should shorten chain a little to let leg get vertical . The chain connected to the ram to move the log lift.

I went from a cheap Chinese splitter to a vertical table splitter. Log lift runs of main ram. A leg falls down holding the log lift at table height. Easy to handle three foot plus (or smaller) rounds at the chainsaw site. Ends up being a fast, simple and safe one man...

The superaxe design minimizes the forces neeed to split, especially when the top of the round is above the povit point. If you watch you tube video of the superaxe you can see the rounds splitting progressively as opposed to poping. And they are only using a 3 inch ram to achieve it...

What length and diameter of wood are you going to split?

After much thought i built a vertical table wood splitter. I used the splitting ram to provide the force for the log lift. When the lift reaches just above horizontal a leg swings down a holds the lift horizontal. I designed it to split 1 m rounds and have split 1.3m rounds cut to 300m...

Thanks windthrown. Joe blogs rate monterey macrocarpa better than monterey pine. I find older pine puts out more heat for longer than macrocarpa. Young pine is not very dense when dry. Mr Anderson

Cupressus macrocarpa (Monterey cypress) and Pinus radiata (Monterey pine) is the easiest accessible fire wood speces in nz. When you cut and split older (non plantation) pine there is huge amounts of sap in the wood. Mr Anderson