johndeereg
ArboristSite Member
Looking to buy a splitter, never had one. Tractor Supply has a 25 ton, but also some bigger models. I split mostly oak, burn maybe 4 cords a year. What do you guys recommend?
What brand do you recommend? I'm willing to pay more of a better splitter, but not over 2000.00.There is a good reason, for the long waiting period for an American made splitter....
That's the exact one I bought this year, totally satisfied. Real solid machine, I did buy better hose clamps though.
Put a marker stick on it for backing up.I recently purchased the tractor supply 25 ton when it went on sale about 2 weeks ago. So far it works great! the gas tank holds approx half of a gallon and runs the machine around 5 hours. Its not terribly difficult to unhook from the truck and drag to the work area, the welds all look solid, the lines all seem very well made. So far I have run about 3 tanks of gas through it and I am about to do its break in maintenance. Im going to do a engine oil change and change the hydraulic oil to a high quality full synthetic and use a Baldor hydraulic oil filter. It hot here year round and freezes only a handful of times during winter so its getting hd 30 in the engine and iso 46 in the hydraulics.
My only complaints are simple..you can not see this thing behind your truck when towing it so its impossible to back it and the other complaint is you can not tell how much gas is in the tank at a glance while operating it. Other than those two issues it has split about 3 cords of huge rounds of knotty red oak approx 28 inches diameter by 20 inches in length, simply put i can not move around anything larger LOL. The wedge head is pretty sharp so it cuts through the knots slowly, if it gets blunted I could see it not handling them.
What brand do you recommend? I'm willing to pay more of a better splitter, but not over 2000.00.
-unclemoustache is spot on. But if you need to tow it it's not for you.Get a SuperSplit. It’ll split your splitting time considerably.
It takes 12-14 seconds for a hydraulic splitter ram to go forward and back.
With a Supersplit: 2 seconds.
It’s a bit more than $2k, though, but you’ll never regret it.
I have a 22t County line 6 or so years old. Never have had any issues with it.
And it is made by speeco
Hmmm.. I just looked at the tarterUSA site, and they don't list a log splitter. https://tarterusa.com/ I had always thought that the County Line splitters were made by Speeco, but was not positive, until I looked at the Speeco web page. They sure look like the same splitters as County Line.I looked at a 25 ton countyline at tractor supply yesterday and was told they are made by tarterUSA. It had a Kohler engine and the guy that assembles them told me they had zero complaints and zero returns on that particular model- looked very well-made- the welds looked very good I’m no expert but for $999 it seems like a pretty good deal.
I noticed that same thing about the tarterusa website. The guy seemed to know what he was talking about - even mentioned that tarterusa is typically known for metal gates and fencing and other products that tsc carries ( and not splitters) , which makes sense, but i’m more inclined to go with the real world physical speeco comparison - i plan going to buy one this week if they will give a military discount - otherwise might wait until memorial day - i will report back if i find any manufacturer marks on it.Hmmm.. I just looked at the tarterUSA site, and they don't list a log splitter. https://tarterusa.com/ I had always thought that the County Line splitters were made by Speeco, but was not positive, until I looked at the Speeco web page. They sure look like the same splitters as County Line.
The one in my sig has a B&S engine that has worked flawlessly. I had to tighten up the clamps when I 1st got it, and had a bunch of other problems that were due to a lousy job of assembling it at the local TSC store(like double filled engine oil - went back and found the other one they had did not have any oil in it!). Once I got those things taken care of, it's been a good splitter.
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