Scary log splitter...
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That is literally so awesome, the ingenuity of some people eh! I don't know why everyone's so critical, the man's clearly an engineering genius!
Loving all the mad contraptions people come up with ,but this is what you call a log splitter http://youtu.be/F9IKEvqKNhY
I have had some very close shaves over the years with using mine. It gets tiring when all day your just feeding big lumps of crosscut hardwoods through the splitter, corners cut and all that. Thankfully no injuries.
This guy seems to have it safety side sorted.
[video=youtube;2sluRp1g354]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sluRp1g354[/video]
Just uses his kids to feed the wood on
From my experience of using this splitter, theres no Axe or human could take apart/split some of the lumps of beech that my splitter just explodes as if coring a apple.
He has even removed the safety rail from the splitter, that stops the operator falling in and been augured round till the tractor runs out of diesel. That's also why we have big families out in the sticks, just don't know how long we can keep them aliveThis guy seems to have it safety side sorted.
[video=youtube;2sluRp1g354]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sluRp1g354[/video]
Just uses his kids to feed the wood on
He needs to weld a work table Under the Auger so that the wood stays up in the air too - all that reaching in and around the auger is asking for trouble. Still, each to their own!
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Not that I'm against a good bit of duct taping. Always some in my wallet
Not that I'm against a good bit of duct taping. Always some in my wallet
Not that I'm against a good bit of duct taping. Always some in my wallet
I gotta agree with that - one of my favourite motto's: 'if it isn't fixed with duct tape...then you haven't used enough!'
My buddy cuts his firewood on something like this
No blade guard - all runs off an old Lister engine.
He's been doing it for years - scares the snot out of me - particularly when he talks to me over his shoulder whilst doing it!
He still has the right number of fingers though!
This isn't your buddy by any chance Hugh?
The way the guy is leaning on that log to push it through is another accident waiting to happen :yikes:
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Bit more redneck engineering for you Hugh
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That's actually pretty safe I reckon Dave - he's made a blade guard, he is using an offset handle and the chap moving the logs is using a pickaroon. I've seen a lot worse from people using a saw the conventional way
Do love the engineering though - especially the counter weight
Do love the engineering though - especially the counter weight
That's great! I'd love to have a god of that saw, but not the first one with the flying axe head, I like my hands .
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That's actually pretty safe I reckon Dave - he's made a blade guard, he is using an offset handle and the chap moving the logs is using a pickaroon. I've seen a lot worse from people using a saw the conventional way
Indeed: if it weren't for the lack of hearing protection, you might almost mistake him for a normal person
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