Interesting take on it. I look forward to DR's reply.You seem a sincere fellow and I don't doubt your statement but the above highlighted statement is kind of funny considering you stole the idea from the marketplace.
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Interesting take on it. I look forward to DR's reply.You seem a sincere fellow and I don't doubt your statement but the above highlighted statement is kind of funny considering you stole the idea from the marketplace.
As far as putting the cover back on, I thought it was obvious. The cover only comes of for any adjustment, then gets re-installed.
You seem a sincere fellow and I don't doubt your statement but the above highlighted statement is kind of funny considering you stole the idea from the marketplace.
DR rep was replying to MNGuns, who suggested that DR might only be responding so well to customers to make SpeeCo look bad by comparison. They were answering you and the answer I interpreted was "No, we would have done that anyway". It was about a customer service comment. Also, they didn't say they ignore the marketplace, they said they "don't get too hung up" on it. That means that they can stay true to their own service standards without varying by product line just because of what the competition might be doing.
I'm also getting tired of people slamming DR and SpeeCo and any other kinetic splitter maker for copying SuperSplit. If you don't like the laws of the USA regarding patents and related protections, then write your congressperson to ask for new laws. SuperSplit's patent ran out and now anyone can use the design and improve on it. Heck, we'd all be driving a Mercedes-Benz if we thought that people couldn't ever leverage other people's ideas.
To all log splitter mftrs who want to remain in business: Use the SS design. This is your last warning. There is a better design than hydro and people are going to learn this fact at exponetial rates going forward.
I think it is great the SpeeCo attempted to create an original product based on the principal of kinetic energy. They have had some issues regarding quality, but it appears that they are attempting to resolve them.
I think it is great having more competition in this market line and was initially excited to have SpeeCo in the race. I respectfully disagree with your applause. I would be firing the product manager if I were CEO. Even as a consumer, I think it totally blows that SpeeCo made so many major changes to the SS kinetic design. They bit off too much and rushed out a really poor and dangerous product (imho). I would love to be able to give my machine back to DR during the trial period and say "I can get a comparable machine for $1000 less".
Yes, we all like to see ambitious attempts at improvement, but there is inherent risk with new designs in any industry. IMHO, SpeeCo did not hedge these risks with enough Q&A or make a good enough attempt at resloving issues, once out the door.
I do not take any points away for DR for attempting only minor improvements in their initial offering. Quite the opposite. Do you?
There'd be hundreds of people if not thousands that said the same thing about chainsaws. Or cars. Or planes. Or electricity, etc.
I think it is great the SpeeCo attempted to create an original product based on the principal of kinetic energy. They have had some issues regarding quality, but it appears that they are attempting to resolve them. They are due credit for building an original platform that addresses the needed improvements of existing kinetic splitters. Your "frustration" appears to be misdirected.
I don't think it's a good idea to have your hands near what is basically a rotary hammer. Not something I would trust to keep me safe.
But still with that dog aweful cradle. I find it hard to fathom why they persist with that impediment to a smooth and near effortless sliding of re-split blocks. It'd be the first thing I'd grind off it if I buy a DR.The new table is painted a different color and with a different texture.
But still with that dog aweful cradle. I find it hard to fathom why they persist with that impediment to a smooth and near effortless sliding of re-split blocks. It'd be the first thing I'd grind off it if I buy a DR.
So the table is diffferent. I wonder if it is a different type of metal or if it just is black paint. Any other changes that you notice?
The safety police will be along shortly to scold you for walking away from an already lethal machine that's just itching to take out you and your whole family, including pets. That kinetic splitter "second" is enough time to start and end the next world war, don't you know?The cradles don't hinder me, plus it is nice if you want to walk away from a round for a second.
The safety police will be along shortly to scold you for walking away from an already lethal machine that's just itching to take out you and your whole family, including pets. That kinetic splitter "second" is enough time to start and end the next world war, don't you know?
We don't get many set-and-forget 'one-split wonders' here nor have enough straight grained non-lumber trees that could fly through a CCUV inspired 4-way splitter wedge mod. We get pig-ugly noodlers and that means there'd be re-split after re-split and some of them are heavy. Either a job best suited to a hydraulic or certainly not something I'd want any ramping cradle getting in the way of. That sort of work would get 'old' real fast if one had to person-handle bigish re-splits back onto that cradle all day long.
Well, that's my impression and $0.02 worth as a potential buyer of such a DR splitter.
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