Scary log splitter...

[Goatboy]

What is it they say about rednecks most common last words are: - "Watch this..."

 

[santaman2000]

What is it they say about rednecks most common last words are: - "Watch this..."

Yep. And the most common wedding proposal is, "You're gonna have a what!?"

 

[RonW]

God must love idiots.... he created so many of them.....

That thing is a wheel of fortune, with choices between "missing one finger" up to "one hand" and possibly "plant broken off axehead in forehead" with all sort of other variations of that thing coming apart while running... No ballbearings on an seriouslt unbalanced wheel, operating with considerable force, what could pssibly go wrong? The flying logs had already been mentioned, maybe add some chips and splinters for good measure?

 

[Russell96]

Wow! Any piece of machinery that you have to jump out the way of while it is operating is always a winner!

 

[resnikov]

Got to take that one to the dragons den, sure fire winner !

 

[ozzy1977]

Got to love the redneck

 

[Nemesis]

Wow! Seen some impressive automated log splitters on Youtube before but that takes the prize. Just a way of dropping a little bleach into the gene pool, though as Red says its incredible how often they seem to get away with these things.

 

[Mesquite]

You call it "being manly"

[video=youtube;0V9YZ7C88iU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V9YZ7C88iU[/video]

Good old Tim 'The Toolman' Taylor... I used to love watching his shows

 

[British Red]

More Power!!!!!

 

[Skaukraft]

Pretty common device 50 years ago.
They were build and sold in a variety of designs and drive-options, but most commonly driven from the PTO on a tractor.

 

[British Red]

I can see by this thread that some people cannot appreciate the zen like simplicity of redneck design

 

[Mesquite]

I can see by this thread that some people cannot appreciate the zen like simplicity of redneck design

That's duct tape engineering Hugh

 

[santaman2000]

....... No ballbearings on an seriouslt unbalanced wheel.....

I think you meant "wheel bearings." Ball Bearings don't run very well in the bearing race of an axle.

 

[RonW]

I think you meant "wheel bearings." Ball Bearings don't run very well in the bearing race of an axle.

I guess you could say I am a non-technical, non-English guy that needs to brush up on his technical- and language"skills"...

 

[Big Stu 12]

I think you meant "wheel bearings." Ball Bearings don't run very well in the bearing race of an axle.

Probably would be Roller Bearings if you really want to split hairs.....

that's whats in side all the wheel bearings i changed....

 

[BearInTheWoods]

Scary, but so American, a culture whose motto is 'why the heck not?'

For some reason reminds me of that pistol which fired .50BMG rounds.

 

[santaman2000]

Probably would be Roller Bearings if you really want to split hairs.....

that's whats in side all the wheel bearings i changed....

Yep. You're right, I couldn't remember the name. Thanks.

 

[santaman2000]

Scary, but so American, a culture whose motto is 'why the heck not?'

For some reason reminds me of that pistol which fired .50BMG rounds.

I wish. Unfortunately we're raising more and more wusses every generation.

 

[didicoy]

I have one of these log splitters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH5Yd-9ymtk

 

[Macaroon]

There wouldn't be much of the US of A had they not done stuff like this - nor anywhere else much, come to think of it............