Wood-Fan-Atic,
See, as they say, build it and they will come! Well you got your splitter, and the wood came!
There's been a wood stove in the basement of the home I live in since I bought the place and moved in 13 years ago, THAT I'VE NEVER USED! This has not been by choice, but I recently have been trying to get to a point where I can clean out the basement, un-bury the stove, hook it up and begin supplementing my heat with wood. Life just always seemed to get in the way, and I was never able to get it done. We never had a fireplace/wood stove as a kid, and I always enjoyed it when we visited someone who did, and when I went camping as a youngster going scouting - hey I'm an Eagle Scout!
Well, I recently had to cut a short access road through the woods, and took down a few trees to do this. I bucked the logs and started to stack them. Ironically, the next day in conversation with a friend, I mentioned that now I needed to build a log splitter to split all these rounds I had just stacked, some time soon. To my complete surprise he volunteered his fairly new 22 Ton Huskee - Tractor Supply Rig. I got about 1 full cord out of it after it was all split, and doing this has jump-started the desire to fabricate my own rig. (I started a separate thread in the "Gear" section) It will be a horizontal ONLY machine with a log lift, and my own twist - enabling the log lift to hold up long logs for me that need to be bucked. This way I can skid long logs to the splitter, buck them into just a few pieces, and then have the lift raise them up for me to finish bucking them comfortably, for final splitting.
Anyway, I've begun cleaning out the basement in preparation for using the wood stove next winter, after what I have so far is properly seasoned. If I get it done sooner - highly unlikely - I'll be enjoying it that much sooner! Hey it's been 13 years, so one more season won't make much difference.
I'm having lots of fun designing my machine and collecting parts - so far I have a new 4X24X2 cylinder, two valves, and engine and some other misc parts. I'm waiting on a nice heavy beam, and once that arrives I'll be ordering axles, hubs, a pump, etc.
I was introduced to the forum by a co-worker who has a nice American CLS machine, and I've really had a good time picking up ideas and so on from all you folk.
Bottom line with your score: You put it out there ...... and it was delivered to you! :cheese:
Little do they know, eh? 
