Anybody know this splitter?

[sawinredneck]

I'm watching this, might be able to get it pretty cheap, it's electric and claimed to have come from the Home Depot rental dept.
I'm liking electric, one less motor to take care of. I know it's smallish, but with a broken back I'm not wrestling around many big pieces any ways right now.
But I can't find ANYTHING even resembling this thing on the internet!
Any ideas?

 

[nvrs]

I'm watching this, might be able to get it pretty cheap, it's electric and claimed to have come from the Home Depot rental dept.
I'm liking electric, one less motor to take care of. I know it's smallish, but with a broken back I'm not wrestling around many big pieces any ways right now.
But I can't find ANYTHING even resembling this thing on the internet!
Any ideas?

Mantis?

 

[gpsman007]

hard to tell from your sideways pictures but it looks like a husqvarna symbol on the last pic

 

[sawinredneck]

Sorry about the crappy pics, it's what I was sent.
It looks like a Mantis, http://dev2011.mantis.com/mantis-swiftsplit.asp, kind of. That sucks, from what I've read the controls are on the handle, not the best design I've seen.
BUT, it's DIRT cheap, what to do, what to do!:monkey:

 

[Wife'nHubby]

I can't tell from the pictures but check to see if the ram and wedge meet. On our Ryobi apparently OSHA determined a 4" gap is 'needed for consumer safety".

Shari

 

[sawinredneck]

The Mantis site says it's a 5" gap, more reason not to love it so much.

 

[Wife'nHubby]

The Mantis site says it's a 5" gap, more reason not to love it so much.

I haven't checked out the stroke on the Mantis, but on our Ryobi I just put a spacer next to the footplate if needed for the piece I'm splitting.

Shari

 

[sawinredneck]

I talked myself into it tonight and called, it sold yesterday! It was listed for $150 and had been on craigslist for a while, might have gotten it for $100. For that money I couldn't see going terribly wrong!