So I went to Home Depot 3 weeks ago and purchased a Surge Master 20ton Hydraulic splitter.
It has a 5hp Honda GC engine. They wanted $85/Day to rent it so I figured I might as well purchase it!
This is probably going to sound very stupid, but it has a 2 stage pump;what does that mean?
I am very happy with it and have gone through some very nasty,knot-infested,fresh cut, old spruce.
I tried to find the stopping point on the splitter by going through my old piles of wood and putting some
nasty apple through it....no sweat.I put some really,really ugly apple through it.....no sweat. I finally
made it cry with some unbelievably ugly Green Ash.It was basically a chunk about 100 lbs where I guess
the main trunk met with 3 branches. I remember looking at it with my Fiskars SS about 3 months ago for
a minute or 2 and never even bothered trying it
Any tips you guys can give me would be appreciated. I can't find any grease fittings for it to lube it. What do
you use to lubricate the slide that the wedge moves on? Am i the only one who cares what the splits look like?
I take a round and take the 4 edges off first with the splitter so that I basically end up with a block.Then,depending
on the size of the block, I will split that into burning size "rectangles".This dramatically slows down the process,but
I like the way the wood looks.(Instead of a bunch of triangles)
Thanks in advance.
It has a 5hp Honda GC engine. They wanted $85/Day to rent it so I figured I might as well purchase it!
This is probably going to sound very stupid, but it has a 2 stage pump;what does that mean?
I am very happy with it and have gone through some very nasty,knot-infested,fresh cut, old spruce.
I tried to find the stopping point on the splitter by going through my old piles of wood and putting some
nasty apple through it....no sweat.I put some really,really ugly apple through it.....no sweat. I finally
made it cry with some unbelievably ugly Green Ash.It was basically a chunk about 100 lbs where I guess
the main trunk met with 3 branches. I remember looking at it with my Fiskars SS about 3 months ago for
a minute or 2 and never even bothered trying it
Any tips you guys can give me would be appreciated. I can't find any grease fittings for it to lube it. What do
you use to lubricate the slide that the wedge moves on? Am i the only one who cares what the splits look like?
I take a round and take the 4 edges off first with the splitter so that I basically end up with a block.Then,depending
on the size of the block, I will split that into burning size "rectangles".This dramatically slows down the process,but
I like the way the wood looks.(Instead of a bunch of triangles)
Thanks in advance.