I am still trying to figure out why they are charging so much for a 4 minute cylinder swap and a $30 jug of hydro juice. Unless they flat fee $125 per hour with a one hour min???? This is literally a 15 min job out the door.
Give it a few years,mine left after 23. After about 2 weeks of feeling sorry about the whole mess i started to live again.Now i wish i could go back and give her the boot about 16 years ago when the crazyness started.I always hoped i could help her...I’m all for staying with the devil you know, unless it’s completely beyond the cost of replacement. That’s probably why I’m still with the same crazy woman after 20 years. [emoji14]
I am still trying to figure out why they are charging so much for a 4 minute cylinder swap and a $30 jug of hydro juice. Unless they flat fee $125 per hour with a one hour min???? This is literally a 15 min job out the door.
I would be surprised if that’s the case. Huskee was just TSC’s made up brand name for the splitters they were buying from Speeco, at that time, as I understood it.there is big "H" weld reinforcement on the back side of the stop on mine which implies to me that its Huskee with TSC paint?
Have you factored in selling the old one - if you get the new one?
Not sure what you'd get for it, would depend on who comes along & what they feel like spending. But the way used splitters are around here - you'd get over half of what a new one would cost.
Here ya go...and it isn't even black Friday yet!$700? Really? I can’t remember ever seeing a decent splitter nearly that cheap. Best price I’ve ever seen on a Speeco 22 is $899.99.
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Yeah, that was another advantage...my $699 Champion from RKO came assembled and running.Some Assembly Required
That's the same setup my Champion 23T has...no issues with it so far...been 5-6 years now...probably split at least 25-30 cord. ..and some nasty/gnarly stuff too!That’s cheap! What’s the verdict on that wimpy looking cylinder mount, though? I’ve never owned a machine that didn’t have a full beam, with the cylinder clevis-mounted at the far end.
That's the same setup my Champion 23T has...no issues with it so far...been 5-6 years now...probably split at least 25-30 cord. ..and some nasty/gnarly stuff too!
I've always had good luck in selling items at a fair and decent price vs. trying to get a top dollar for an item and then either holding on to it forever or having a bazillion tire kickers look at it before finally someone finally makes the buy.
I was thinking of selling it as is with an asking price of $350, allowing them to dicker me down to $300 or $275. The cost of the new ram will be $337. Add in some hydraulic oil and for around $650 someone will have a splitter. That may be overly optimistic, but then again I've been seeing rusty, home-built splitters sitting a foot off the ground with an asking price of $350-$450.
Yeah, there was a time that the trunion mounts were getting tore off the side of the cylinder, but haven't heard of that issue for a long time now.
The welded "H" on the back of the foot plate was to address the foot plate snapping in half. That is also an issue I no longer hear about.
The Wallenstein splitters use a front mount cylinder not a trunnion mount. When considering beam length shorter beams flex less making the system stronger when using the same size beam.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking, there was a time when you wouldn’t want to touch anything without a full beam and clevis-mounted cylinder.
I wonder how these balance? Another advantage of the full beam and clevis-mounted cylinder is that extra half beam puts a lot of extra weight on the tongue, to the point where the splitter ain’t tipping with all but the heaviest rounds I can lift onto it.
I’d guess you could achieve the same effect by moving the pivot a little closer to the foot plate, but unless you also positioned the pivot farther below the beam, that could reduce horizontal beam height if you needed the thing to work in a vertical position as well.
... but that's where they already are, even on the old full-beam Speeco's! See pic I posted of the old Huskee on the prior page.You put the engine out front near the tongue. Out of harms way. Where it should be.
... but that's where they already are, even on the old full-beam Speeco's! See pic I posted of the old Huskee on the prior page.
I guess you could scoot it even farther forward, but that would at least somewhat increase the cost and complexity of mounting it, as most currently just use a gusset plate welded to the forward face of the axle tank.
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