Log cutter splitter - oh yes!

[Winston001]

Gotta get me one of these:

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[pzkpfw]

That link needs correcting.

Which brings to mind that the corrections department needs a log splitter most of all.

[Ronin]

http://www.youtube.com/v/KdXzaGFkWfU

[cowboyz]

that is awesome!

[Bald Eagle]

Can also be used to 'process' the unemployed

[bogan]

wicked, only improvement would be to chuck it on a john deere

[Grubber]

Fuck....i gotta get me one of those.
I just got an axe.....too much sweat

[oldrider]

Excellent post Winston001, it makes you want to have one but it cuts the wood too small for me, 1/4's would be spot on!

[Ocean1]

Excellent post Winston001, it makes you want to have one but it cuts the wood too small for me, 1/4's would be spot on!

Used to be an old Maori guy not too far from where Winston lives, was good at splitting whole pine logs with a splitting gun.

I remember hearing him at work down the end of our street of a Saturday afternoon, the characteristic sharp crunch of a black powder shot about every 10 min.

More than once the shot was followed by the sound of a yard of splitting gun flying through the tree tops, followed in turn by an hour’s silence while old George went looking for it.

He also had a flywheel, off an old traction engine, with an axe head welded to it. Was set up on an old trailer, with a flat belt drive from an old black oil (Ruston?) engine. Split biscuits as fast as you could shove them on the deck.



Try getting the union involved in a risk assesment of that lot.

[Berries]

The brother in law imported something similar from Sweden. Standalone unit running off a PTO. Drop a log on one end then drop the saw. The ring drops in to a chute and as the saw rises, the logs moves in again and the ring goes through the splitter, then up a conveyor belt to drop in to a truck. It used to take a day to nearly fill the old Mazda truck with two people on chainsaws, two on the log splitter and one helper. Now the two of us can fill the truck in an hour and a half. With no splinters. Nice bit of gear. Shame we converted to coal last year.

Excellent post Winston001, it makes you want to have one but it cuts the wood too small for me, 1/4's would be spot on!

You can get the splitters to put the log in to four, six or eight pieces. Good for kindling and the big bastards for an Otematata winter.

[Brian d marge]

One south Auckland Hotel ( prison) , Blunt axes and and many trees as you want

cost well If I had my way a bag of spuds , but I know we live in enlightened times so
$92,000

of course that is for a whole year and one assumes the cost wood get less and the in fighting took hold

Stephen

[Winston001]

Used to be an old Maori guy not too far from where Winston lives, was good at splitting whole pine logs with a splitting gun.

A splitting gun! Now there is a blast from the past. I found one in a box on the farm when I was a boy. Dad told me how it worked so my mate and I (two 12yr old boys) loaded it up with black powder, found some fuse, and set to blowing holes in boards, logs, bricks, sheds anything which looked worth a go.

I also had an old bullet mould with which I made lead balls so we used to fire these.

Ahhh them were the days......