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[6pt-sika]

I had a big oak (48” or more at the stump) get blown over during a storm last summer and it in turn knocked over three poplar trees . I just got finished cleaning up all four . A friend came over and we cut up a loaded all the oak on his 8 ton trailer . He got six loads ! I cut up almost all the poplar for myself . We don’t hear with wood but have four fireplaces and if we have an extended power outage during cold weather I like using poplar so I can get the main floor of the house hot , then haul the ashes out before bed and close the damper. So another friend brought his wood splitter over for me to use , my days of busting wood with a maul or pretty much s thing of the past !

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[jnyork]

Nothing like using the right tool for the job.

[gamekeeper]

I have gotten down my firewood pile and I'm now using my reserve pile, the only seasoned wood I have is beech that the log splitter gave up on. Already looking for next winters supply. Your splitter looks like in would split mine with ease.

[6pt-sika]

I have gotten down my firewood pile and I'm now using my reserve pile, the only seasoned wood I have is beech that the log splitter gave up on. Already looking for next winters supply. Your splitter looks like in would split mine with ease.

I think my friend told me the cylinder is rated at 25,000 pounds and I think he said the sticker on that thing was $1,700 . Hopefully what I bust up with that thing I’ll never need .

[AJMD429]

Our only heat has been a wood furnace, for the past 30 years. Temperatures mostly range from 0 to 80 Fahrenheit, with extremes from 36 below to 104 degrees above that I remember during my lifetime.

For the first two years I was young and energetic and used a "Monster-Maul" splitter to do it by hand. Then I bought a 26 ton hydraulic splitter, and I've used that ever since. I wound up replacing the hydraulic last year, because I wasn't sure why it had lost power, but when that didn't help, I wound up buying a pressure gauge and figuring out that the problem was a leaky seal in the cylinder, so I replaced the cylinder since I needed it fixed in a hurry, and didn't know how to replace the seals.

The original cost was around $600 or so and the new pump and cylinder put that total investment up to about a thousand, but now it's good to go plus I have an extra cylinder I can probably rebuild for about $25 or $30, and an extra pump that is perfectly good, so at some point I see a hydraulic project of some sort in the works.

Maybe for resizing really tough brass.....

[6pt-sika]

Our only heat has been a wood furnace, for the past 30 years. Temperatures mostly range from 0 to 80 Fahrenheit, with extremes from 36 below to 104 degrees above that I remember during my lifetime.

For the first two years I was young and energetic and used a "Monster-Maul" splitter to do it by hand. Then I bought a 26 ton hydraulic splitter, and I've used that ever since. I wound up replacing the hydraulic last year, because I wasn't sure why it had lost power, but when that didn't help, I wound up buying a pressure gauge and figuring out that the problem was a leaky seal in the cylinder, so I replaced the cylinder since I needed it fixed in a hurry, and didn't know how to replace the seals.

The original cost was around $600 or so and the new pump and cylinder put that total investment up to about a thousand, but now it's good to go plus I have an extra cylinder I can probably rebuild for about $25 or $30, and an extra pump that is perfectly good, so at some point I see a hydraulic project of some sort in the works.

Maybe for resizing really tough brass.....

Thirty plus years ago when I had steam engines I was forever combing the woods on our property for dead trees or blow downs . I loved dry locust for the engines . Anyway I busted all I cut for them with a maul or sledge and wedge . I’d bust up wood for a couple hours and when I was done the joints in my hands didn’t want to open lols !