Wow did I get a surprise yesterday, a tooth removed and a new wood splitter!

[Grateful11]

I was scheduled to have a broken Wisdom tooth removed yesterday morning by an oral surgeon and that went fairly well. Not sure I'd have it done again without being knocked out. Anyway I was lying in my recliner feeling crappy while my wife and son went to town to run some errands and pick up meds they has prescribed for me and I get a call that there's some hanging out of the back of Tahoe and I need to come out check and see what is wrong. Well I'm feeling like crap and get up and put my shoes and jacket on and go out the door and there's brand new TSC County Line 22-ton splitter hooked up to the Tahoe. I had visions of a tailpipe or something hanging out, figured she had ran over something. Still haven't fired it up hopefully I'll feel like it tomorrow. It looks great, no drips or anything yet. The thing was they had a 10% off deal going yesterday for online purchases and she tried her best to order it online and pick it up in at the store but it kept adding $156 freight to right up to the end before hitting submit. So they just went by the store and they said they would honor the 10% off there. So she got it for the Black Friday price. Hopefully we will try on some of that Ash we cut the other week, is Ash tough to split, I've never had the opportunity to scavenge any Ash, some is about 30" or more across it was about 108 years old. We've tons of wood to cut and split now, Red Oak, Hickory and now some Ash.

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[velvetfoot]

Wow. That's all I have to say. Wow.

 

[mecreature]

get out there and use it. Let us know how it performs.
I can see that exact one in my near future.
I'm getting to old to split everything by hand.

 

[Jags]

That ash isn't gonna stand a chance against that machine. Feel better and get-R-done.

 

[gzecc]

Thats a good wife!

 

[Grateful11]

Thats a good wife!

She's one of a kind. Been together now for 27 years. Not sure how she puts up with me though ;-)

 

[D8Chumley]

That is awesome, congrats! As far as the Ash, there's nothing about it I don't like. I have a lot of it here, cut some of a blowdown today with my new CS 590 actually. Splits great, burns great... It's just all around great wood. Enjoy that new splitter

 

[TreePointer]

Darnit. I'm out of wisdom teeth.

 

[blades]

That was a heck of a tooth fairy visit.

 

[BobUrban]

I just scheduled an oral surgeon visit and I haven't even ever had a cavity!! I just want the tertiary goodness!!

Congrats on a fine splitter

 

[CenterTree]

Sweet deal.


All I get after a dentist visit is a free toothbrush.

 

[Phoenix Hatchling]

Ash is about as easy as it gets. They tend to shoot out of the splitter with a loud crack though so don't have anyone behind it.

 

[Phoenix Hatchling]

Oh...and my wife got two wisdoms removed yesterday, so I bought her a new Miele vacuum

 

[Grateful11]

We split some 18-20" Ash today, nice looking stuff, smells good too. The big stuff is still in 4' long logs. I measured some of it and the biggest is up to 39" across.
Pics here:
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/well-the-big-ash-is-blocked-up-in-4-lengths-pics.134426/

 

[Grateful11]

We got her up and running. Only had one small leak, the pressure line coming out of the control valve wasn't tight at all, tightened and all was well. Ran it both Horiz. and Vert., engine is very quiet and smooth. The engine might say Kohler but it looks almost identical to the Predator 6.5hp engine from Harbor Freight we just put on the hay elevator that they use to unload ear corn. Carb. controls, On/Off switch, low oil sensor, valve cover are all identical. There's just few cosmetic differences.

We split mostly some old junk, Hickory, White Oak we blocked down last Fall and had it stored under a cover on the back of the old milkhouse. Stuff that was too big or tough for the electric splitter. She performed like a champ. Never even went to full throttle, running 93 octane non-ethanol. Probably put an 1.5 hours on it. Nice having it hooked up to front of the Deere for moving to the wood.

Now we're sitting in the Den, the insert is going and watching a movie. Life is not too bad right now.

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[TreePointer]

Good to see that splitter is up and running--and you, too, for that matter.

Is the wood being carried by one of those synthetic/polymer pallets or something else on on the forks?

 

[CenterTree]

Hmmm, never seen a hitch on the front of a lawn tractor like that. Interesting though.

Does the splitter really call for 93oct?

 

[Grateful11]

Good to see that splitter is up and running--and you, too, for that matter.

Is the wood being carried by one of those synthetic/polymer pallets or something else on on the forks?

Thanks, mouth is not doing too bad, might have pushed things just a bit today but can't lie around forever ;-)

Those plastic/polymer whatever pallets are used in the hay sheds here on the farm to stack 4'x4' round bales up to 4 high on them, they're very strong and don't rot. My wife and son have over 100 of them. They have a guy not too far away that sells them for $5 a piece. I need to put some sides on a couple of them to hold more wood but we're just using one right now take to wood to the stacks and unload.

 

[Grateful11]

Hmmm, never seen a hitch on the front of a lawn tractor like that. Interesting though.

Does the splitter really call for 93oct?

The front 1 1/4" receiver is built into the GT. I put one on the back, it was an accessory from JD, too but the front one is quite a bit higher. Strange thing is backing while hooked to the front is like backing a wagon, not easy without some backwards thinking.

93 not required it's just the only non-ethanol we can buy near here right now.

 

[CenterTree]

93 not required it's just the only non-ethanol we can buy near here right now.

Big thumbs up on running NON-ethanol!

 

[Jags]

Now get that oil changed. One of the best things you can do for that unit is to change the oil after a short run.

 

[Grateful11]

So warm it back up and change it now? Manual said 5 hours but that's probably just to get any machining chips out of it so I think that's what I'll do, change before using it again. Thanks.

I'm sure TSC put the cheapest thing they had in it anyway. I run Castrol GTX 10W30 in my JD GT, it's a 27hp Kawi. Horiz. V-Twin EFI, so that's what I'm going to run in this too. I hate when the product manual says one weight and the Kohler engine manual says another. Kohler says 10W30 for 0˚ F. and up so that's probably what I'm going with. The Splitter manual says above 32˚ F. use 10W30 but below 32˚ use 5W-30. I might even have a quart if I didn't use it in that Predator engine. I don't blame TSC for putting oil in the engine because probably the number one cause of people returning anything with a small engine, not putting oil in it.

I like that these engines have 2 oil fill holes, very easy to get to. Not sure why they put a dipstick on each fill cap when it tells you fill it until it's running over and stop. The way I look at it, check with it sitting level, if it's not oozing out a bit when you remove a cap put some in it.

 

[firefighterjake]

Scheduled a visit with my dentist today . . . asking them to pull out every tooth . . . cannot wait to see what I get!

And on the positive side . . . I'll now blend in with the rest of my native Mainiacs.

 

[SidecarFlip]

She's one of a kind. Been together now for 27 years. Not sure how she puts up with me though ;-)

We seem to follow each other around the forums and we both like orange. What could be better......lol

 

[highanddryinco]

Thanks for posting a photo of that splitter. It made me give myself yet one more kick in the head. A couple of weeks ago on a Sunday, my TSC had a half dozen of those sitting on the sidewalk marked as the "tractor mounted splitter" and priced at $749.99. I read and re-read the tag, scratched and cocked my head and alas, did not make the purchase. I went home and cogitated the situation for a while. Tuesday, I dropped back in at TSC and had myself convinced I needed one. By then however, the price had been corrected to the "Non-tractor mounted" splitter version price. I am now re-convincing myself how much more healthy it is to split by hand.