Thread: Wood Splitters

Have a look at superaxe , from memory thats the 1 with the hydraulic lifting platform. Ive always found when splitting wood manualy its not the drop of the axe that gets ya back , its the setting up & positioning of each log.
Cheers Dean.

Hey Rovercare, This is one my dad was looking at getting a while ago.
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We are in the process of buying one to mount onto a 3PL, driven off the Kubota's hydraulics. Chinese ones at a dodgy importer near Campbellfield.

The petrol motor ones I have found struggle on the bigger jobs, by bigger I am talking 3 ft in diameter. Used one with a 3.5 HP briggs and stratton, ideal for Mr. Wayne Kerr of South Yarra to cut his kindling but not much else.

As you would already know Matt, it isnt the HP that counts it is how the Hydraulics are set up that counts.

Just the less HP the slower it works.

The 2IC at work has a Chinese one that seems to work Ok, he has used it for a season splitting for fire wood delivery so he used it flat out and it is still like new.

That one does both horizontal and vertical splitting and it does 3' blue gum or yellow box pretty easy unless it is badly knotted.

One on a 3pl would be much better of course but you need a tractor to power it so not everyone has a tractor handy so the B&S ones will have to do for most people.

Try Nightingale electrics in the city, they have heaps of the Chinese import tools including log splitters.

Edit : The splitter that Defender 1st has posted the link to is the same as what My 2IC has got.

The guy I bought my Husky chainsaw had a really good setup.
His splitter also had a conveyor belt to load trailers/small trucks.
It had no problems splitting Jarrah and Wandoo(Whitegum)
From memory he said around $12000.Expensive yes but he put over 140 tonnes thru it in its 1st year.
Andrew

I once hired a trailer splitter with a 20hp V Twin and a long bench and log lift so you just dumped the log on the lift and then slid it under the splitter then slid the split stuff into either cage boxes (which we were using so we could fork it around) or a trailer but a conveyer would have been better as you could have loaded it into a truck.

The good thing about it have 20hp was that it was fast but you had to make sure you had it in the right place and you wanted to be wearing solid clothing as chips and stuff came off at a huge rate of knotts.

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

The guy I bought my Husky chainsaw had a really good setup.
His splitter also had a conveyor belt to load trailers/small trucks.
It had no problems splitting Jarrah and Wandoo(Whitegum)
From memory he said around $12000.Expensive yes but he put over 140 tonnes thru it in its 1st year.
Andrew

One zero to many for me