sunfish
Fish Head
Matt, that thing is a Beast! You're really goin to like the work table!!!
Matt, that thing is a Beast! You're really goin to like the work table!!!
Morning Dan and everyone else out there in gtg land. Coffee's ready and the old wood burner is burning,so life is good this morning. Still waiting for the freezing rain and snow they have been predicting.
Still a work in progress... Iowa and I are thinking the same thing on this... Run 50 cord through it and modify what needs to be modified when I've had a chance to get to know it...
Northbound & DOWN!!!
My ass is wrapped in fiberglass.
And chrome....
And Turbos...
18 speeds....
& stuff...
Is that a Turkey barn. your driving through?
Still a work in progress... Iowa and I are thinking the same thing on this... Run 50 cord through it and modify what needs to be modified when I've had a chance to get to know it...
You may get 10 cords done today. If it splits like it looks.
He'd better shoot for 15. Looks to be on the cold side down there lately.
That thing will get a lot of wood split!
But I wouldn't trade my Super Split fer it! :msp_razz::msp_thumbsup:
Yup... Cold here this morning... Won't be splitting though... Took the recoil apart and working on a way to make it electric start. I'm gonna tear this thing up starting 13 hp with a pull rope...
My 13 hp Honda has started almost first pull for about 12 years. Every few years I remember to change the oil. It is on an insulation vac, and has run thousands of hours.
I would sure like to see one of those working someday. All the videos I have seen of them never show anybody splitting anything with a bunch of knots in it. They sure have a quick cycle time.
Everything I get seems to be at least 50% forks, crotches, or huge-hard to split.
I saw Don's run two gtg's ago, and it had a lot of punch through the weird knotty stuff. Really liked the Subaru/Robin engine, and the scant fuel consumption.
I was in the same school of thought because of all the company's product demos I saw show smiling operators shoving straight grained maple through one after the other. They need to show the machine getting down and dirty, they would probably sell a few more of them……..
I saw Don's run two gtg's ago, and it had a lot of punch through the weird knotty stuff. Really liked the Subaru/Robin engine, and the scant fuel consumption.
I was in the same school of thought because of all the company's product demos I saw show smiling operators shoving straight grained maple through one after the other. They need to show the machine getting down and dirty, they would probably sell a few more of them……..
All the wood I get is generally the stuff that comes from a tree removal. In general, if it is easier to throw in the chipper, the Bandit loads it into the truck for us. Ooops! There went all the easy firewood.
I the end, we end up hauling back all the huge wood and splitting that stuff up. I like the rapid cycle time of the flywheel splitters, but I fear that getting those 3' diameter rounds up on the teeny little splitter will be rather impractical. What I need to do is build a great big dual purpose splitter that has a vertical splitter for the big rounds and a horizontal rapid cycle splitter that finishes them off when they are small enough to pick up and move around.
With that much productivity, I would want it to have a conveyor to get the stuff up into a truck or on a pile further away from the work area. So far, I haven't found anything remotely affordable with respect to the conveyor. I can build anything else far cheaper (and probably better) than what I could justify owning.
All the wood I get is generally the stuff that comes from a tree removal. In general, if it is easier to throw in the chipper, the Bandit loads it into the truck for us. Ooops! There went all the easy firewood.
I the end, we end up hauling back all the huge wood and splitting that stuff up. I like the rapid cycle time of the flywheel splitters, but I fear that getting those 3' diameter rounds up on the teeny little splitter will be rather impractical. What I need to do is build a great big dual purpose splitter that has a vertical splitter for the big rounds and a horizontal rapid cycle splitter that finishes them off when they are small enough to pick up and move around.
With that much productivity, I would want it to have a conveyor to get the stuff up into a truck or on a pile further away from the work area. So far, I haven't found anything remotely affordable with respect to the conveyor. I can build anything else far cheaper (and probably better) than what I could justify owning.
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