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Fabricated log splitters
I cut and split my firewood by hand, about every two or three years I'll order a truck load of oak logs, just glad I'm still able to do it. The other day I was Playing around on YouTube and found these splitters, I like most anything homemade, but these are a little extreme and dangerious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlpcnCsDBeo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bVAAx3mMKY |
Harbor Freight sells 'em for under 300.00
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Not sure, but I think there was a home made still in the backround of that first video.;):D
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Is it me agin' eyes.....
..or did the loonie in the first video have only one (working) arm? Whatever's wrong with the old hydraulic-ram type splitters? Yikes! Ar-ar!
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Not much room for error! Ouch!
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Scott S |
Usually 12-18 18' logs about 15-25" dia. The last load costs $130, that's before it went up, and then back down?. The guy I buy from sells mostly to pallet makers, now that's changed and he'll sell to anybody?. As slow as things are, he'll probably deliver for free and split.
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The first video ... the lack of one arm should give you a hint to run away. The second video, that contraption looked like a Redneck guillotine.
Reminds me of a friend who built a log splitter using a one axle utility trailer. The ram was 6 inch in diameter, with a 2 foot stoke, so it could bend the Empire State Building. :LOL::LOL: For power, he bolted a air cooled 60 HP VW engine to the trailer. Anyone need to split a Redwood or Sequoia tree? Northern tool has about 30 different log splitters, and some of them were on Sale when I checked last week. |
130 delivered...ouch.
Our loads are twice as big somewhere around 28 tons, I sold two last week for firewood for $750 delivered and the firewood lot had to be able to unload the truck. The wood would be in 12-20' lengths 2"-20" in diameter somewhere around 250 pieces. A mix of fir and hardwoods we usually send to a pulp mill. We produce around 500 loads of pulp/firewood a year which is about 13% of our total production. Do you want me to schedule a trainload for you? Scott S |
The wood yard is only 4-5 miles and I know the owner...A trainload!!, heck! I'll still be splitting come spring.
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I have been selling split oak for around 250 a cord here in the KC metro thers alot of sorces here.to get whatever you want.Wow I wouldnt want to let that get ahold of my leg kind of a screw based contraption.
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