How many cords per year until you break down and buy a splitter vs renting one?
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Sweet... I'm in MA. Can I officiate? Wood splitting, beverages, and steak..... My kind of event! Have maul and beer cozy - will travel!
You wouldn't want to challenge me right now after my shathawks implosion of 17 points to the bengals. Wish I had some wood to split right now I'm so fuming mad.
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mwhitnee
Minister of Fire
Looks like we have some John Henrys here, we all know what happened with him!
After 1 cord any decent hydro splitter would be pulling away from any normal human.
After 1 cord any decent hydro splitter would be pulling away from any normal human.
Bad LP
Minister of Fire
It would be nice to have the ability to process as I go. The way I have to do it, I bring the logs home and pile them up, buck them and pile them up, split what I can by hand... and pile them up (stack them, this time, to season). Now, having built a woodshed, I'll be moving that stack again in a couple years into the woodshed for use. It's a lot of unnecessary handling. But, it is what it is. I can rent a 27 ton splitter at $75/day and get the uglies split in a day. That got a little better this year, as my brother bought a splitter, so, I can get it at no cost, but, have to haul it 40 miles and back again. He doesn't rush me, but, I know he's over there looking at his piles of logs... I get it back as quick as I can.
go pats.I'm thinking he is just looking for some help with his wood splitting and is willing to provide beer and steak tips.
Works for me.. I actually like splitting best in the trials of wood heat. I do have a hydro but rarely use it, haul it out on the tuff stuff. Here is my pile of oak rounds ready for January PA 80 splitting. There should be at least 3 times as many rounds there come then.
sorry it says the pic is to large for the server. but it is a bunch of strait oak rounds, no crotches or anything.
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Thanks, but that there is way to much work. Definitely not worth the effort. I use the phone to post pics, its super easy everywhere else.
Working on a solution, my friend.
Oh - and I will take on any hand splitter - I will bring the wood...
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JRHAWK9
Minister of Fire
You should still be high on the Lion "win"........you should be sitting at 1-4.
Haha. I'm still high on that "fail mary", and last years NFC championship.
I bought my splitter from Northern Tool and I love it! No wasted time waiting for the blade to come back. Splits both on the forward AND backwards thrust!! Plus has two racks to place next logs on , ready to split. So cool
An upright splitter is nice but is limited to waiting for blade to go back up before next log.
I do both. Red oak in winter ill out split my 20ton splitter. Elm in may and give me the splitter any day of the week.
McKraut
Feeling the Heat
Wanta bet?For how long?
I do the same thing tsquini does, and I've been doing it that way since 1988. I can split most wood with a maul quicker than a gas splitter can. I'm not as fast as I used to be but I still enjoy doing the majority of the splitting by hand.
Bob
Ashful
Minister of Fire
I'll be splitting Thanksgiving weekend, if you want a challenge. First to reach 5 cords CSS'd wins? I suspect you may keep up with me for the first hour or two, but you'll be falling behind by the time I get into my second and third cord of the day.
Full cords, not those so-called "face cords".
Hey maybe you could also see if you can beat him in a foot race driving a Corvette. 5 cords......
Ok so all us hand splitters got spunk and are proud of what we can do with our hands and a chunk of iron on the end of a stick. And all you power guys are proud of the industrial scale at which you can process. But we all stand there and drink a beer admiring our stack at the end of the day. Cheers to the folks who spit there own!
Since moving back to my wife and i's roots I lost the gym that was near by. So any time I can get a workout on our 37 acres, I do. Whether splitting wood by hand, by the light of my kerosene lantern, or stacking it. But since we rely on the wood for heat, I do incorporate the splitter. I especially in corporate the splitter if my brothers are down. One unloading to the splitter, one splitting and one stacking. Sure makes easy work of things!
So you can cut, split and stack 5 cords in a single day? Do you get help from a blue ox?
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