swift split?

[STIHLSamantha]

i saw the craziest looking thing today on the television....a swift split by mantis....an electric log splitter that splits wood up to 12 inches in diameter and averages about 5-7 seconds per log to split in half...it looks like a moving dolly with an upright handle and two wheels..the machine itself isn't so silly as were the people they showed on the commericial using it....women, old people....saying that anyone can use it....i don't know how i feel about it....it's kind of cool that they have something small and portable like that for people who can't hand split or don't have a bigger log splitter....but it seems to me like a waste of money...what do you think?

 

[bama]

Waste of money, IMO. I made my splitter for much less than that. Way too slowwwww.

 

[wagonwheeler]

I think the two of you would kill it in an almost immeasurably short time frame...

But it does fill a void in the market. And is probably especially good for folks w/ limited mobility, etc...

Chaser

 

[adkranger]

...or people who like to split in their living room w/o all those nasty fumes.:yoyo:

 

[bama]

If the manufacturers would only check with me before making new equipment, I could tell them which ideas were bad!

 

[STIHLSamantha]

i had to laugh when i saw it....it just cracked me up that they showed only old people and women using it...no lumberjacks like us..hahaopcorn:

 

[wdchuck]

i had to laugh when i saw it....it just cracked me up that they showed only old people and women using it...no lumberjacks like us..hahaopcorn:

I thought you were a 'lumberJill'. :jester:

 

[ciscoguy01]

Junk

i saw the craziest looking thing today on the television....a swift split by mantis....an electric log splitter that splits wood up to 12 inches in diameter and averages about 5-7 seconds per log to split in half...it looks like a moving dolly with an upright handle and two wheels..the machine itself isn't so silly as were the people they showed on the commericial using it....women, old people....saying that anyone can use it....i don't know how i feel about it....it's kind of cool that they have something small and portable like that for people who can't hand split or don't have a bigger log splitter....but it seems to me like a waste of money...what do you think?

Don't even be looking at that commercial woman. I don't think I told you that you could turn on the tv...

 

[SmokinDodge]

Don't even be looking at that commercial woman. I don't think I told you that you could turn on the tv...

Cisco aint it a little cold to be sleeping in the dog house? :hmm3grin2orange:

I've learned through the years it is not wise to piss of a woman capable of weilding a spliting maul or axe. Don't ask how I know :monkey:

 

[Freakingstang]

Cisco aint it a little cold to be sleeping in the dog house? :hmm3grin2orange:

I've learned through the years it is not wise to piss of a woman capable of weilding a spliting maul or axe. Don't ask how I know :monkey:

LOL, I can't get mine to run a saw or a maul...I think it is best left that way.. she makes agood wood stacker though...


Haven't used a splitter much, but that thing looks like a joke. Ever see the little hydraulic splitters that use a bottle jack? Thos things are a joke. The girlfriends dad use to have one in the basement by the stove becuase he had short ceilings -couldn't swing an axe or a maul.... took about 50 pumps to spilt a good sized 12" round. HAHAHAHA.

He thought it was nicer than swinging a mual out in the cold....

 

[SmokinDodge]

LOL, I can't get mine to run a saw or a maul...I think it is best left that way.. she makes agood wood stacker though...

Some days I wish I could say that. She's a great woman, and will run my 036 in a heart beat, but when she starts showing me up deer hunting I get the red butt. :angry2:

 

[turnkey4099]

LOL, I can't get mine to run a saw or a maul...I think it is best left that way.. she makes agood wood stacker though...


Haven't used a splitter much, but that thing looks like a joke. Ever see the little hydraulic splitters that use a bottle jack? Thos things are a joke. The girlfriends dad use to have one in the basement by the stove becuase he had short ceilings -couldn't swing an axe or a maul.... took about 50 pumps to spilt a good sized 12" round. HAHAHAHA.

He thought it was nicer than swinging a mual out in the cold....

Yeah, I have seen the ads for those and variations all using a jack. I can picture a whole bunch of them that were recieved as Chrismas presents and promptly thrown in a corner and forgotten after the first try.

Harry K