bodgydave,
I am not sure if this is useful info for you, but I bought a "16 ton", electric from Ramsplitter, took it up to Canada, north central Quebec, for my wife's relatives. Moved it at 70 mph because if fit right in the back of my 1/4 ton Toyota pickup. Works well on 220 volts, thirty amp circuit (think, electric drier). The only glitch was that we needed to turn it on and off with a knife switch inside the garage, instead of the onboard switch, which was very stiff, and felt like it could break in the bitter, -20F, cold. We got the horizontal/vertical model which my taller than me relatives blocked up for a more comfortable height.
We used ATF fluid, so no cold/ viscosity issues. It does not heat the hydraulic fluid, so you cannot use it for a handwarmer, a common practice with the gas engined splitter. They use this mainly for softwoods, pine, spruce and birch, the wood of that area. It is on a 100 foot 10 gauge extension cord, which is plenty for their purposes. The electicity ("hydro" up there) is much cheaper than the $6 (imperial) gallon of gas. We used it hard to get in a winter supply. We paid the customary price for grapple trucks of logs that otherwise would have gone to a paper plant.
It cost about $1100 with a tray, and a four way wedge, which is OK , but we usually resplit just by stacking wood together. Unsure about shipping to Alaska. It was very well crated, and needed only ATF fluid and to slip the tires on the axes to go. Ohh, ....we did replace the tires with solid rubber tires because one kept losing air.
Seems to still be working fine, it is used twice a day in a garage, to split rounds, and kindling, to stay out of the cold.
I am not sure if this is useful info for you, but I bought a "16 ton", electric from Ramsplitter, took it up to Canada, north central Quebec, for my wife's relatives. Moved it at 70 mph because if fit right in the back of my 1/4 ton Toyota pickup. Works well on 220 volts, thirty amp circuit (think, electric drier). The only glitch was that we needed to turn it on and off with a knife switch inside the garage, instead of the onboard switch, which was very stiff, and felt like it could break in the bitter, -20F, cold. We got the horizontal/vertical model which my taller than me relatives blocked up for a more comfortable height.
We used ATF fluid, so no cold/ viscosity issues. It does not heat the hydraulic fluid, so you cannot use it for a handwarmer, a common practice with the gas engined splitter. They use this mainly for softwoods, pine, spruce and birch, the wood of that area. It is on a 100 foot 10 gauge extension cord, which is plenty for their purposes. The electicity ("hydro" up there) is much cheaper than the $6 (imperial) gallon of gas. We used it hard to get in a winter supply. We paid the customary price for grapple trucks of logs that otherwise would have gone to a paper plant.
It cost about $1100 with a tray, and a four way wedge, which is OK , but we usually resplit just by stacking wood together. Unsure about shipping to Alaska. It was very well crated, and needed only ATF fluid and to slip the tires on the axes to go. Ohh, ....we did replace the tires with solid rubber tires because one kept losing air.
Seems to still be working fine, it is used twice a day in a garage, to split rounds, and kindling, to stay out of the cold.
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