splitting wood

[Geo-TH,In]

I don't split wood. I think this was a neat tool.
Neat way to split wood.

 

[Stephen Newell]

I think my cordless drill would have a coronary. It looks like wood easily split anyway.

 

[Russ from MN]

That deign has been around for years, but a much larger version. The wood they are using for the demonstration looks very easy to split, if you used it on some elm there would be tremendous torque on the drill motor. We have mostly black ash, it splits so easy with a maul we don't bother with a power splitter. The crotches go in a pile with the elm, which is very hard to split by hand, and I get out the hydraulic splitter for that.

 

[TimV]

Agreed--a neighbor had a splitter very similar to the one in the short video below back in the 70's, and even that was just a small-engine powered version of earlier ones that you could put on the wheel of, for instance, a Ford Model A or one of the many doodlebugs made from them. We learned in a hurry that the neighbor's machine was an excellent way to get a bruised (or worse) leg when pieces went flying or the whole log started spinning around if it wasn't put on the screw perfectly or it broke during splitting. The wood it produced was also often twisted and irregularly-split, making it difficult to pile and use. This was especially true with the longer (36 or so) wood they used for their wood-fired maple syrup evaporator. They still have it, but it's long been replaced in use by more conventional wedge-type units.

Larger units on the same principle are also commonly used on skid-steers and excavators for stump splitting and similar chores.
cone screw wood splitter

 

[Geo-TH,In]

I've seen a version that is attached to one rear wheel of a truck with a stick shift. Jack the wheel off the ground and put the truck in granny gear. Make a kill switch just in case.

 

[TimV]

Or a '92 Honda Civic! Over 4 million views, and he says it works great, though it looks like an accident waiting to happen.
92 civic wood splitter

 

[Mule Meat]

(quoted from post at 18:22:07 08/13/23) I've seen a version that is attached to one rear wheel of a truck with a stick shift. Jack the wheel off the ground and put the truck in granny gear. Make a kill switch just in case.

Stickler was a brand of spiral log splitters sold in the 70's. I remember them coming with mounting plates that fit a lot of different lug stud spacings. Can't say if they are still being sold for they never really caught on.

 

[quefan]

More of a handy way to make kindling from previously split wood.
Need a drill with enough power to make it through , the threaded in adapter mandrels equals no reverse to get out of trouble.

 

[shaun wallace]

Have seen on that went on tractor pto. Went on lift arms and had some type of arms to keep down. Think it had a Kubota sticker on it.

 

[kcm.MN]

Here's mine. Got this at an auction way too many years ago. I think we paid $1. Got it just for the heck of it. The base has 3 holes in it, so not any standard wheel pattern.

 

[Charles in Aus.]

KCM ,
The company Hydrocut make the ' Hycrack ' splitter, a version much the same that runs directly off the pto on small tractors . Looks terribly dangerous but isn't really . One advantage is that you can use the lift to adjust the working height to suit your back .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPWcaqANpL4

This post was edited by Charles in Aus. on 08/19/2023 at 03:27 pm.