Let's hear about your log splitter

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Kool_hand_Looke

Kool_hand_Looke

Feeling the Heat
Dec 8, 2013
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Illinois
I'm in the market for a log splitter. A new one. 35 tons is simply just too much. So let's see/hear how much you love/hate your fluid power splitter. Which I'm sure this is also where the wise @$$3$ will pipe up and talk about their trusty 30lb maul.
 
I think you should buy a 1988 Duerr 20 ton splitter. I like mine.
 
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I can't find my maul.
 
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Fiskars. Just lethal.
 
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"Maybe you shouldn't have lost it."

Why? I have a splitter. Well actually, three of'em.
 
Rossco said:
Yeah. Depends on the wood. I could take a load of larch / fir / pine out in a 10th of the time a splitter could.
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Now I do agree with that. But where I come from there's not much of that wood around. LOTS of hard maples, menageries of oak, and Osage orange. Id fire the furnace up before I split that by hand.
 
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Kool_hand_Looke said:
Now I do agree with that. But where I come from there's not much of that wood around. LOTS of hard maples, menageries of oak, and Osage orange. Id fire the furnace up before I split that by hand.
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Oh and I feel for you guys without a couple a ton of help. Some of that stuff looks knarly.

It's hard work but for some people, the only exercise they get.

Burning wood, saving money. No gym membership needed here.
 
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Rossco said:
Oh and I feel for you guys without a couple a ton of help. Some of that stuff looks knarly.

It's hard work but for some people, the only exercise they get.

Burning wood, saving money. No gym membership needed here.
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Im a one man crew as well. I'm about sick of the 35T Huskee. Got all the hoses and filters dangling from the bottom, and a real pain to move by hand. Couple that with PIA wood to CSS...it gets tiring.
 
They do.
 
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Kool_hand_Looke said:
Im a one man crew as well. I'm about sick of the 35T Huskee. Got all the hoses and filters dangling from the bottom, and a real pain to move by hand. Couple that with PIA wood to CSS...it gets tiring.
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Ah there's nothing better than a nice CSS row of gold.

We did a load at a friends with a splitter. Heavy to move, slow to split and it didn't split like an axe.

Defo good for the big rounds. Once in half, one hit, one split after with the Fiskars.
 
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MTD 27 ton splitter. It's been reliable other than the cradle bolts which snap off if you don't pay attention and get a split jammed between the beam and cradle. It's also a bit slower than I would like ... but for me it beats splitting with a maul and has pretty much split everything I've put on it.
 
Using the 22T Huskee with a homemade side cradle. While it certainly could have been designed a little better I'm happy with it. Best $900 so far in the wood heat world I'm in. So far only 1 real nasty "ugly" that it could not handle.
 
what is the benefit from moving to a <35 ton from what you have now?
 
31 Ton MTD here. I got mine "used" from some "in town" guy who had 2 huge oaks taken down. He might have ran 5 gal of fuel through it max. Paid 1200 instead of 1600. I have yet to find something it can't split.

I added 12x12 extension wings to the log cradles to make them into tables, works great. It is very heavy to move by hand, about 750 lbs, so I added a tow bracket to my bagger mount on the tractor.

I've changed the hyd oil & filter once, engine oil yearly, new air filter. I removed a mouse nest form the blower housing & fixed the ignition kill (ground) wire that the critters ate through.

Operationally, a fantastic splitter.
 
I've been eying up a Timberwolf to replace my troy bilt. One throw of the lever = six splits. 2K though.
 
I also have a Huskee 35-ton splitter (2009 build), and it has never given me issues.

I agree--it is on the heavy side to move by hand. There are better balanced splitters (less tongue weight) that are easier to move than mine. All the I&O machines I've used excel in this aspect.

Sometimes I wish its 15s cycle time were faster. If I were purchasing a splitter of this type, I'd go for the DHT 28-ton splitter with its 11 second cycle time or one of the I&O fast cycle splitters.

In the 35-ton splitter's favor, its very rare that a log will cause the pump to jump into its slower second stage, so I do save time that way.

As far as cycle time goes, I've been tempted to get a Super Split. The idea of keeping the 35-ton hydraulic splitter for the big nasties is tempting, but I'm thinking I'll make the decision on whether to keep it after using the SS for a while. Why have all that $$ tied up in splitters when I can blow it on more chainsaws and beer?
 
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