The best of the wildcard woodsplitters, it gets good..

[DodgyNomad]

Bust forward to 1:45 and hang on with both hands the next time you want to speed up your splitter there Bubba

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[festerw]

 

[BIGChrisNH]

oh my word

 

[Bad LP]

I see a log into the face soon to be followed by spitting out his Chiclets. What a dumb ass.

 

[festerw]

I also enjoyed the safety glasses, ear protection, shorts, and to really top it off...crocs.

 

[WiscWoody]

The first splitter didn’t look too bad for short pieces.

 

[Ashful]

I’m all about speed, modern safety implements be damned, but that inertial wheel even gave me the heebie jeebies. I loved the log lift implementation, but that splitter head speed... holy crap! I wonder if the original designer had it on a 900 rpm motor, as might have been common many decades ago, and a subsequent repair was done with an 1800 or even 3600 rpm motor.

 

[DodgyNomad]

Pretty unforgiving stuff. Not one you'd let the children learn on.

 

[Easy Livin’ 3000]

What part of the world uses stoves that use wood cut to 2" length? The last one with the sharpened hub could pull your hand right in and dispatch your digits in short order.

 

[Ashful]

What part of the world uses stoves that use wood cut to 2" length? The last one with the sharpened hub could pull your hand right in and dispatch your digits in short order.

I suppose you're talking about that antique unit with the 3hp Fiarbanks-Morse Z motor. That thing is so cool, but I suspect those guys are just antique tractor nuts, and keep this machine more for fun than real work. Based on that motor, this splitter is probably right around 100 years old, and I think a lot of stoves made at that time took small wood. It's a nice design, I wouldn't be afraid to use it for some fun, but I wouldn't be trying to split enough wood to heat this house on it.

edit: oh, nevermind. I just realized there was one more home-made rig after the Fairbanks, in this video. Yeah, that thing is odd, not sure why he'd want wood chunked into little 3" lengths.

 

[Easy Livin’ 3000]

I suppose you're talking about that antique unit with the 3hp Fiarbanks-Morse Z motor. That thing is so cool, but I suspect those guys are just antique tractor nuts, and keep this machine more for fun than real work. Based on that motor, this splitter is probably right around 100 years old, and I think a lot of stoves made at that time took small wood. It's a nice design, I wouldn't be afraid to use it for some fun, but I wouldn't be trying to split enough wood to heat this house on it.

edit: oh, nevermind. I just realized there was one more home-made rig after the Fairbanks, in this video. Yeah, that thing is odd, not sure why he'd want wood chunked into little 3" lengths.

Yep- almost missed this one as well. There are lots of videos of ones like this on YouTube, I suspect they are from eastern European countries, based on whatever languages they are speaking. It's strange, there seem to be more videos about this stuff from underdeveloped countries than from the US.

I guess that type of processing would be good for the old potbelly stoves.

I am certainly not dismissing the idea, as I'm certain folks from the old Soviet countries knew how to keep warm, I've just never seen a stove from these parts that I'd process wood to burn, this way.

 

[Kevin Weis]

Every time I see these videos I think is the speed really worth the safety risk, really?

 

[duramaxman05]

Those videos are sped up quite a bit. Not to mention I would like to get wood that splits that easy. Hickory, elm and post seems like it takes forever to split

 

[osagebow]

Mr. Carnival wheel of facial fractures probably has more invested in fabbing the ramp and table than a 22 ton would cost. Jeeps ain't cheap, he has a grand laying around somewhere