Splitting Wood

[Gypo Logger]

Yup, Madonna had one or two like that, but it looks more like you are trying to tap that Fir.
John

 

[Rotax Robert]

Gypo, as you know with tapping...the lead or pitch in the U.S. of EH is not metric nor left handed...down here it takes both hands.

Here is a pic of Jim aka Wilford Brimley

 

[Sethro]

Robert
That unicorn splitter is far out looks like it could be hard on the wrists,6 lb maul works for me. Good pictures.

 

[Grateful11]

>maybe a pic would help.

That thing seems pretty deep to not be splitting yet. Does pop all at once or is nice and smooth? I've heard of them but never seen one in use.
Grateful

 

[kev]

I got some Chinese Chestnut a couple years ago, cut into stove lengths and split it into quarters. It stayed in my wood shed where the sun hit on it for the majority of a days time and no rain ever hit it. I got a few sticks of it out to burn last week and it wouldn't even offer to catch fire. It would lay and sizzle while oozing green slime. I even broke down and put some good coal under it to try to coax it into burning, to no avail. Its laying out back right now, charred but not broken.

Anybody else ever have any trouble with Chinese Chestnut?

 

[treeguy347]

I line up 5-10 pieces of wood in a straight line. Hit the first then advance to the second nd so on without having to break rhythm to set up another piece of wood. My 16 pound maul a.k.a. big wedge with a pipe welded to it as a handle, works great. With good wood ad/or frozen stuff, I can easily outsplit one of them hydraulic splitters.

 

[Rotax Robert]

Grateful11 it splits real smooth and very fast...pics may not do it justice as some times the wood splits from the back side or it appears that the splitter is real deep when infact the wood is already split and the piece is either falling off or already has.

 

[Rotax Robert]

here is a pic or two.

 

[Rotax Robert]

another log

 

[Rotax Robert]

more splittin.

 

[Rotax Robert]

here is a pic of the husky's I went through just to buck the logs that we split. I had to put them out of thier misery with my 454 casull.

 

[Crofter]

Fat Looking Peashooter!

Those Huskys is hard to kill Rotax, you dont want to be undergunned for the game your after!

Frank

 

[WOLF_RIVER_MIKE]

Rotax, did you build that splitter? Can you still buy those?

 

[Rotax Robert]

I am not sure if you can still by them or not...I have built several of the screws in the past but did not build the one pictured, I just copied thier design.

 

[dbabcock]

Robert,
What holds the log from spinning around? That thing sure looks dangerous.

 

[Rotax Robert]

Doug, notice the bar that the wood rests on, it is about 12" to 16"
away from the centerline of the shaft. Yeah, a short stick of wood can slide off of the bar and hit you about 30 times before you can blink, but they are an extremely fast splitter.

 

[dbabcock]

Thanks, Robert. The discs are on their way tomorrow morning. You'll probably have to copy the file from the CD to your hard drive to play it at normal speed. Because I didn't compress the video when I digitized it directly from the tape you brought, the picture will be big. The file is about 200 MB!

 

[Gypo Logger]

Hey Robert, get out of chainsaws, it's not your calling. I think the delicate outstretch of flyline over a pristine northern rivulete is more like you.
John

 

[WOLF_RIVER_MIKE]

I like the fly, good color for clear water. Probably need to go to a chartruse or chartruse/white down here in these murky Mississippi oxbows.

 

[Dennis]

Robert..I have seen some splitters just like that that mount to a pickup rim...then the guy just jacks up the rear end of the truck, using the axle as the PTO....

Beer Can..that is a great picture of Jim, i can use that for a "Wanted" poster!!!!