Is there anyone willing to try this one out?

[pioneerguy600]

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I like this method, my father and I split a lot of hard to split wood with blasting caps and dynamite. He told me many stories of splitting wood with black powder and lit fuse. Dad and my Grandfather split a lot of granite with black powder as well.
Pioneerguy600

 

[Brmorgan]

I like this method, my father and I split a lot of hard to split wood with blasting caps and dynamite. He told me many stories of splitting wood with black powder and lit fuse. Dad and my Grandfather split a lot of granite with black powder as well.
Pioneerguy600

Your family have a history in the coalmines? That's nuts.

 

[Brimmstone]

Try going back even further than than 30 or 40 years. My grandfather has one that my uncle remembers him buying when he was eight. It has been in the family for over 50 years now. I grew up splitting wood with one of those.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Your family have a history in the coalmines? That's nuts.

Only in the hands of inexperienced, I helped dad blast rocks in basements with no damage to the house. They quarry granite and bluestone with dynamite and it can be used on wood if you know what you are doing. You are from BC so check around and see how they made those big trees from the coastal forests fit on the mill carriages.
Pioneerguy600

 

[Schultzz]

Red Neck Splitter

So that's where all those injury statistics come from. Better have lots of health insurance cause Murphy is lurking and watching.

 

[Brushwacker]

We had 1 mounted to a spare rear end assy and mounted on a 3 point hitch run off the pto in the early 1980's era. I think we used it about 2 years. Yes it was very dangerous. I remember some times it would screw part way in the wood , stick, then the firewood log would start rotating banging off the ground and bouncing the rest of the beast around until something give or the pto was shut off.

 

[pbtree]

They've been around for a looooonnnnnnngggggg time. For some reason people keep buying them. I'll take the good ole hyd. splitter.

What he said

 

[pbtree]

Safety glasses and hearing protection to split wood. Good idea!

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But in sandals?:jawdrop:

a few frys short of a happy meal...

 

[pbtree]

Check this guy out, I wonder if he still has arms.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sUUPKEk6ds4

Cool

 

[knucklepanshovel]

the scariest log splitter I have ever seen looked like a factory built & was broke & forsale 10 or so years ago at a lawnmower repair shop..

no hydralics it was cable operated yes cable with like the 1/4" cable to a drum mounted underneath then it went through back & forth through about 8 pulley blocks to pull splitting wedge down the frame. the frame was open & you could see the cables. chain drive from a jackshaft to the spool drum & a gear drive engine like an old briggs 3hp? & had a belt drive from gear box to the jackshaft.

on boths sides of the splitter frame was large springs to return the spiltter home & I dont remember how drum was released to spool backwards.

reason it was there was cable was broke & looks like a very dangerous situation with a cable snapping.

as for the stickler I have heard both good & bad about all my life & they have been around as long as I can remember.

Randy