I built a splitter last winter and got all hung up in how much tonnage was enough…..waffled around quite a while trying to decide how heavy to build it. Once the splitter was operational, i had the relief valve set to about 1500 psi, which in my setup worked out to somewhere around 15 tons of force. I wanted to start low and safe while testing, turns out that is all the force needed to split my wood, probably 5 cord split so far with it.
Need a splitter, way in over my head with monster oak logs
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