Hello to everyone.
This question has probably been asked many times before on the forum, but anyway, I d like to hear from you about your experiances with splitters.
Here is the back ground info you may be interested in;
I have 20 acres of Elm which was wiped out overnight by Dutch Elm disease 8 years ago.
I currently split it by hand splitter, but it seems to be getting tougher (or I m getting older?).
A small portion of it has grown with a twist nearer the base of the tree, about 60 % of it seems not too bad to split and the rest of it is nearly impossible.
It is very dry and not stringy, but more like hard rock and bullet proof.
I have a Massey Ferguson 250, approx. 50 horse power.
I ve looked at various splitters online
Screw splitters.......... they look dangerous to me and are just as pricey to buy as the hydraulic, the only benefit I see is they are simple and probably quicker?
Hydraulic splitters, there seems to be a huge differance in prices with so many differant manufacturers on the market, I dont know where to start looking.
PTO driven Hydraulic splitter, seem most expensive, but are probably quicker than the ordinary hydraulic drive?
Just to let the enviromentalists among you know, , all the dead Elm that I remove has been replanted with differant species.
3 Years ago I planted 300 Birch and 150 Beech trees. Next year I shall plant another 100 or so of each and introduce some Holly and Poplars (Poplars for the wet areas).
This question has probably been asked many times before on the forum, but anyway, I d like to hear from you about your experiances with splitters.
Here is the back ground info you may be interested in;
I have 20 acres of Elm which was wiped out overnight by Dutch Elm disease 8 years ago.
I currently split it by hand splitter, but it seems to be getting tougher (or I m getting older?).
A small portion of it has grown with a twist nearer the base of the tree, about 60 % of it seems not too bad to split and the rest of it is nearly impossible.
It is very dry and not stringy, but more like hard rock and bullet proof.
I have a Massey Ferguson 250, approx. 50 horse power.
I ve looked at various splitters online
Screw splitters.......... they look dangerous to me and are just as pricey to buy as the hydraulic, the only benefit I see is they are simple and probably quicker?
Hydraulic splitters, there seems to be a huge differance in prices with so many differant manufacturers on the market, I dont know where to start looking.
PTO driven Hydraulic splitter, seem most expensive, but are probably quicker than the ordinary hydraulic drive?
Just to let the enviromentalists among you know, , all the dead Elm that I remove has been replanted with differant species.
3 Years ago I planted 300 Birch and 150 Beech trees. Next year I shall plant another 100 or so of each and introduce some Holly and Poplars (Poplars for the wet areas).