Wood cutter/splitter

[Sam1]

This is about the best contraption to date that I've seen

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=08b_1421022488

[RED333]

That is cool, if you wood is small and short.

We cut a tree over the weekend, 24" across, you just aint picking it up to get it split.

My spliter is broke, so back to the old ways.

[I am Groot!]

He is cheating! Wish I was.

[peejman]

That is cool, if you wood is small and short.
We cut a tree over the weekend, 24" across, you just aint picking it up to get it split.
My spliter is broke, so back to the old ways.

Small and short wood, eh? Guess I'll have to keep using my ax. :rofl:

 

 

...and here's the pic I was trying to add with my phone last night...

 

Edited January 14, 2015 by peejman

[justinjr21]

I wish I just had a regular wood splitter. Doing everything with a maul kinda sucks. I have had to cut and split over 2 riks of wood in the past month and I can say it is a full time job it seems like. The only plus side is that I am getting a great workout. LOL

[Ugly]

That is slick! A splitter is a must, unless firewood is a full time job.

[FUJIMO]

You mean you have to use your hands ? Lol.

Hopefully theres an app for that :)

[kckndrgn]

For what it's worth, there are many professional and hobby forms of that that are built.

 

Here's one, on the professional side:

http://youtu.be/XItdFdLjCHU

 

These units will pick up the logs and feed them into the cutter and will split the wood into multiple pieces in one pass.

 

I'm saving my pennies for just a regular wood splitter, but would LOVE to have a cutter/splitter.

[Omega]

I don't have a need for firewood, just do it on occasion when I have to cut a tree down or move a downed tree but this looks like it may be better than a maul: http://www.harborfreight.com/manual-slide-log-splitter-93360.html

 

But even that would probably be bad on my back so I may just have to get one of these: http://www.harborfreight.com/10-ton-hydraulic-log-splitter-67090.html  No motor to sit and go bad and fairly portable.

 

Its probably cheap material but I have one of their posthole digging bars and its come in quite handy, I have a lot of rocks on my land which this has helped break up while putting in corner and brace posts for my fence and its held up good so far.. 

[justinjr21]

I was just there the other day and did not see that. I however just had my chainsaw break so I am out of the wood splitting business for now. Luckily I found a local guy that is selling wood for 60 a rik. That will be what I use once I run out here.

[Spiffy]

You never see them demoing those with green wood from a tree that's starting to twist.  We used a 27 ton Troy Built and had to wrestle those huge hunks of wood around on the ground to get it to split.

[Omega]

You never see them demoing those with green wood from a tree that's starting to twist.  We used a 27 ton Troy Built and had to wrestle those huge hunks of wood around on the ground to get it to split.

I learned back on the ranch were I grew up to only split seasoned logs, those green ones were pretty tough to split. I have a bunch of oak logs at my place that are well past dry.  I was going to use an alaskan mill to cut into slabs but couldn't find an older big enough chain saw to run it. I had to drop another oak tree last summer so may use that for the smoker, should be easy enough to split.

[cj0e]

Got a bobcat?

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c50_1391678659

[peejman]

I learned back on the ranch were I grew up to only split seasoned logs, those green ones were pretty tough to split. I have a bunch of oak logs at my place that are well past dry.  I was going to use an alaskan mill to cut into slabs but couldn't find an older big enough chain saw to run it. I had to drop another oak tree last summer so may use that for the smoker, should be easy enough to split.

 

 

Exactly.  I've never understood why anyone even tries to split green wood.  Anything green is next year's firewood (or the year after that, or...).   I had some pretty gnarly knotted pieces in my stack that I'd put off trying to split for at least 3 years.  I finally gave it a try and was pleasantly surprised that they split without a great deal of effort.  Procrastination pays!

[raildog]

Guy i work with and his dad sell fire wood on the side he has a processer that is on a trailer will take up too a ten foot long log 36" across they go in to a spot and setup for weeks at a time select cutting for people