Got trailer... need winch

[Tar12]

When the situation allows I will drag limb logs to the field and stage them in a row one day and buck them into rounds and the next day we will roll in with the splitter and dump trailer...our record for splitting one day was 6 cord of ash.this was straight line wind storm trees....straight perfect logs.I was running the 6-way head on the splitter...we had to keep switching the guy out on the receiving end of the splitter (we needed 2 guys) .it was a brutal pace!...a record I will not try to break!

 

[Ashful]

When the situation allows I will drag limb logs to the field and stage them in a row one day and buck them into rounds and the next day we will roll in with the splitter and dump trailer...our record for splitting one day was 6 cord of ash.this was straight line wind storm trees....straight perfect logs.I was running the 6-way head on the splitter...we had to keep switching the guy out on the receiving end of the splitter (we needed 2 guys) .it was a brutal pace!...a record I will not try to break!

That is so cool. I have debated picking up or making a multi-way head for my splitter, but have never pulled the trigger. On mine, the wedge is on the cylinder, whereas most I see with multi-wedges have a fixed wedge and moving push plate.

 

[Tar12]

I would love to be able to have access to the logs you get! I would never take the 6-way off! It is a easy enough swap..one bolt and a nut and it is switched out...I run the 2-way/4-way on smaller stuff as the retracting hydraulic wedge allow you to adjust on the fly from 2-way to 4-way...that is the horizontal wedge wings drop below the beam height...it is very productive...

 

[Ashful]

I lucked out this year, and got a lot of stuff in that sweet 12" - 24" range. That's where I see the multi-wedge coming into play. Unfortunately, most years I'm getting all large stuff, and I don't see myself using the multiwedge on those... at least with my small splitter.

You're right though, if there were ever a time to do it, this would be it! Unfortunately, I just got recruited to build a kitchen island for my in-laws place, so that will keep me busy this week, while it's too cold to go out and split. On the heels of that I have another project lined up, but maybe I could slip the wedge build in first.

Time to go start hunting photos of one that would work on my machine.

edit: oh geez...I just found you can buy them for $25. No sense in making one from scratch, at that price!

 

[Tar12]

I lucked out this year, and got a lot of stuff in that sweet 12" - 24" range. That's where I see the multi-wedge coming into play. Unfortunately, most years I'm getting all large stuff, and I don't see myself using the multiwedge on those... at least with my small splitter.

You're right though, if there were ever a time to do it, this would be it! Unfortunately, I just got recruited to build a kitchen island for my in-laws place, so that will keep me busy this week, while it's too cold to go out and split. On the heels of that I have another project lined up, but maybe I could slip the wedge build in first.

Time to go start hunting photos of one that would work on my machine.

edit: oh geez...I just found you can buy them for $25. No sense in making one from scratch, at that price!

I lucked out this year, and got a lot of stuff in that sweet 12" - 24" range. That's where I see the multi-wedge coming into play. Unfortunately, most years I'm getting all large stuff, and I don't see myself using the multiwedge on those... at least with my small splitter.

You're right though, if there were ever a time to do it, this would be it! Unfortunately, I just got recruited to build a kitchen island for my in-laws place, so that will keep me busy this week, while it's too cold to go out and split. On the heels of that I have another project lined up, but maybe I could slip the wedge build in first.

Time to go start hunting photos of one that would work on my machine.

edit: oh geez...I just found you can buy them for $25. No sense in making one from scratch, at that price!

You need this with as much wood as you process....I was shocked you didn't have it already!