Yesterday's splitting party with my new (to me) Lickety Splitter

[Badfish740]

Yesterday I made a dent in the massive score at my dad's house where recently the neighborhood had a "perfect storm" of folks getting trees cut down. The next door neighbor had a massive ash cut and some big branches trimmed off of an oak. Across the street a tree company took down a pin oak, a black walnut, and another ash. I'm not even sure how much it will be when all is said and done. Anyway-here's some pics of my new Lickety Splitter:

As far as I can tell this particular model was rated at 20 tons and it shows. Knotty twisted pieces of oak and crotches are no match for this thing!

I'm not sure on the pump size but the 5 HP engine surprised me-I thought it would be underpowered but it hardly skips a beat even with the really gnarly stuff. It cycles reasonably fast too.

Here's the result of today's work-there's still a decent sized pile of splits that I didn't take since I maxed out the springs on both trucks with these loads:

Here's the pile of black walnut which I haven't even touched save for noodling a few of the monster pieces:

The fun part will be figuring out how many years ahead I am when all is said and done

 

[SolarAndWood]

Sweet looking splitter, looks like someone took care of it. Did they modify the wheel lifting system and make it a fixed height?

 

[Badfish740]

Sweet looking splitter, looks like someone took care of it. Did they modify the wheel lifting system and make it a fixed height?

My dad picked it up on Craigslist for $600 from a local guy who buys, fixes, and sells OPE. I don't know if he modified it or the previous owner did. It's a little high, but not bad if you're working with another person. I'm trying to figure out how old it is-I'm thinking it's at least mid '60s/early '70s.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Badfish, you have scored really big with the wood. That is nice that the wood is close to home!

 

[Badfish740]

Badfish, you have scored really big with the wood. That is nice that the wood is close to home!

Hehe...I'm still counting the jackpot-I just measured out what I brought home (the wife and I stacked it this morning) and it's just shy of half a cord. What's left of what we already split that's still at my dad's will make it over half a cord easily. I'm not a good enough estimator to guess how much will come out of that pile of black walnut. No matter-the leaves are up, the Giants are on, my Yuengling is cold and the dog is snoozing by my side-time to enjoy a lazy Sunday afternoon.