For kicks I just searched splitters again on youtube and found this pretty unbelievable setup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I09Xc4RK43o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I09Xc4RK43o
These guys go big or go home!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brfKKehFtmw&NR=1
Here's a saw to go with....I need that to power my Alaskan mill ;-P
Here's a saw to go with....I need that to power my Alaskan mill ;-P
No doubt, these guys have Talent. And, way too much time on their hands. They have a couple hundren thousand dollars worth of machinery working to save the price of 10-15 cords of wood a year.
Just my two cents
Just my two cents
mtarbert said:
If you combined a couple hundred thousand dollars with their talents, you would see a lot more than an old buzz saw, an old elevator and a large splitter fabricated out of stuff laying around.
I agree with y'all on this.
In fact I take it back a few notches to the place where my splitters are my mauls and the rental unit I have talked about endlessly.
Many times I have done the math on my time and energy and spending countless hours on building extensive equipment to "save time and money" is usually an illusion.
K.I.S.S ....
Now if you like building extra stuff and you have time and are treating it as a hobby then....
Fill your boots.
For now I want to fill my wood stacks slow and steady for minimal cost and time.
That being said I would love to own my own splitter, multiple saws, a better trailer, a bigger tractor, etc, etc.
I just have to keep the equipment lust in check until someone wins the lottery and shares it with me.
In fact I take it back a few notches to the place where my splitters are my mauls and the rental unit I have talked about endlessly.
Many times I have done the math on my time and energy and spending countless hours on building extensive equipment to "save time and money" is usually an illusion.
K.I.S.S ....
Now if you like building extra stuff and you have time and are treating it as a hobby then....
Fill your boots.
For now I want to fill my wood stacks slow and steady for minimal cost and time.
That being said I would love to own my own splitter, multiple saws, a better trailer, a bigger tractor, etc, etc.
I just have to keep the equipment lust in check until someone wins the lottery and shares it with me.
Give me AC/DC Thunder and the Indiana Boys We will race them with standing timber. Using atleast 100 gallons of fuel less. Whatever there trying to do seems the gas man still wins. The big saw is no faster than two people working a saw buck. It is very cool just seems there trading one bill for a much Larger one.
Growing up on the farm, we had a buzzsaw like that and we didn't just use it for slabs. It was a lot of grunt work to lift logs up onto it.
As for that splitter... what a waste of metal. It's not very portable and feeding big stuff into it ties up more iron and manpower. They could have made a splitting attachment for the end of the 444E loader or on the stick of the hoe. That way it would be portable.
As for that splitter... what a waste of metal. It's not very portable and feeding big stuff into it ties up more iron and manpower. They could have made a splitting attachment for the end of the 444E loader or on the stick of the hoe. That way it would be portable.
might as well buy their wood. probably cost less than fuel, equipment maint. or propane! Trading a buck for a quarter, and bustin' a** to do it. And any splitter that is running off that much horse power better be splittin full size redwoods
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These guys didn't set out to see if they could make the most efficient system they could.
They used stuff they had lying around, they used their knowledge, and they pooled their skills in a massive display of good old
American, let's get it done. They know it's overkill, but that helped to contribute to the fun and bonding of family and friends that only this kind of
hard labor can instill. I bet those young girls feel a lot of pride when they see what they and their fathers have accomplished.
I'm happy for them, that they'll grow up with that pride and a great perspective on what it takes to get something done, hard work and respect.
Not everything is about how cheaply it can get done.
They used stuff they had lying around, they used their knowledge, and they pooled their skills in a massive display of good old
American, let's get it done. They know it's overkill, but that helped to contribute to the fun and bonding of family and friends that only this kind of
hard labor can instill. I bet those young girls feel a lot of pride when they see what they and their fathers have accomplished.
I'm happy for them, that they'll grow up with that pride and a great perspective on what it takes to get something done, hard work and respect.
Not everything is about how cheaply it can get done.
offroadaudio said:
For a monster garage show yes...What there left with is a very expensive fuel drinking operation. This isn't something I would teach my three girls. Fun maybe but why not build a whole log processer. Not a lot of thought thrown into a lot of work and still need lots of manpower to get the job done.
Cool - I'm going out to split wood with my maul.
Post some pix in the woodshed latter.
Have a good day.
Post some pix in the woodshed latter.
Have a good day.
Impressive showing of force. But I agree that they could get more firewood with less monster machinery if they thought a little harder about it. I'm sure they did have fun though. It must be nice to have all that equipment around to ply with.
For those of you who prefer horiontal... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_SdauUge0&playnext=1&list=PL9FC585FEA26DA040
For those of you who prefer horiontal... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_SdauUge0&playnext=1&list=PL9FC585FEA26DA040
lobsta1 said:
faster but I think you would have trouble doing the same chunks done with the OP post equipment. And $30,000 for just the attachment would go a long way to the oil man for the adverage person, But who am I to talk. I've got a 4x4 tractor, 37ton splitter, farmi wench, ASV 4520 tracked skidsteer, skidsteer logsplitter, grapple bucket, dump truck, and lots of other play toys. Making wood chips is fun and I can use all the toys to keep the place running.
In the OP post it looks to me like it is a Huge farm operation so they have the equipment and skills to work with and are using it to help clean up fence rows etc. Lots of BIG wolf trees that need to come down etc. Makes the cost being spread around so cost can be justified. With the skills, tools, and access to scrap you can make lots of really usefull equipment for very little cost. Log splitter pic'ed out of pocket cost was $127. It will splitt those really BIG ones from the seat with very little back strain and then split the chunks as fast as you can put then on the cradle. 30gpm at 3000psi makes things interesting.
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