I just bought a 5 ton electric splitter from lowes. It's my second yer burning. I am a complete 100% scrounger. I want to know if others are using these splitters. And opinions.
Electric splitters??
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Even though I'm a true sledge and wedge guy.... I was thinking of one for those splits that take just too long
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My small 5 ton works well on softwood and 12-18 or maybe a bit bigger hardwoods like fresh oak. But I would like something with bigger b@lls. But fir the price I split a few cords of pine and 1 of oak alreeady. For the price it's just fine. By the way they do make bigger. Harbor freight sells them
n6crv
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Hi, I got one about a Month ago. So far it has been working good. Have used it with Ash, Walnut, Maple and some got me wood. I have gotten it to some real hard pieces where it did what I would call "vented" It would try but it would get stuck then it vented. I had to whack the log off the wedge. Just tried a different spot and it went right thru it. So far real happy with the way it works. Thinking about a ramp to roll the logs onto it. Enjoy your new toy.
I bought one from Lowes this year and have been splitting pine and some apple with it. For the price and the size, I am well pleased.
Doug
Doug
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n6crv
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Danno77
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I bought a used electric a few weeks ago and although it's slow as sin, I love it. I can split faster by hand if I only have 30 minutes or so to spend doing it, but if I have several hours of time to split, then I'll split by hand until I'm tired and then start using the electric. It's nice to have that option. I have quite a mix of wood types and round lengths and sizes, and overall, it seems to split about 75% of what i give it.
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Now I'm doing everything by hand. I really want something for the tough stuff. I don't mind work outN6CRV said:
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I have the 10 ton manual splitter. I think it sucks. way too much work & way too slow.
Then I bought a 4 ton electric limb splitter. Not a log splitter because its too weak to split logs, but it does ok on small limbs. Still too slow and too much work. a toy at best.
Now I use a huskey 22 ton 6.5 hp b&s engine & this is opperator easy & fast.
paid 1250.oo for it & glad i did. Saving my time & energy is worth a lot to me.
Oh yes, I still have the sledges & wedges because some trunk ends are just too heavy to get to the log splitter without quartering them first.
The key is ,i believe, opperator easy. If a machine knocks you out opperating it & you have to spend the next day in bed recovering from the over work out, get a machine that does more of the work for you.
There are , after all , other things in life besides log splitting & you need to have some time & energy left for them too.
So a better log splitter that does more of the work for you, faster & easier , it a wise investment , so that you have some time & energy left over to do your income tax return with.
Then I bought a 4 ton electric limb splitter. Not a log splitter because its too weak to split logs, but it does ok on small limbs. Still too slow and too much work. a toy at best.
Now I use a huskey 22 ton 6.5 hp b&s engine & this is opperator easy & fast.
paid 1250.oo for it & glad i did. Saving my time & energy is worth a lot to me.
Oh yes, I still have the sledges & wedges because some trunk ends are just too heavy to get to the log splitter without quartering them first.
The key is ,i believe, opperator easy. If a machine knocks you out opperating it & you have to spend the next day in bed recovering from the over work out, get a machine that does more of the work for you.
There are , after all , other things in life besides log splitting & you need to have some time & energy left for them too.
So a better log splitter that does more of the work for you, faster & easier , it a wise investment , so that you have some time & energy left over to do your income tax return with.
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