Slide action wood splitter - GIF

**Toolmaker51** · Jun 12, 2019, 08:30 PM

While I liked his implementation of the capstan to hoist, it's an unnecessarily spartan machine when it comes to guarding overall.
I'm a city boy, with a faint rustic demeanor. A little bit of watching helps find wood to harvest; usually curbside.
I use a variety of manual methods, to avoid repetitive stress injury. They are 30" Estwing axe, Oregon Grenade, old school wedges, 3 pound engineers hammer, 4 pound sledge, a Swedish pruning saw, larger bow saw.
Cause she liked it when I took my shirt off.

**Tooler2** · Jun 12, 2019, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by Rattlerjake

Yeah wouldn't we all! But why didn't they make the cutting heads large enough to do the whole log all at once? For $9900 I can buy all the cord word I'll need for the next 20 years (or more), and not have to do the work either! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...s-in-the-world

I don't like the idea of spitting out both sides but I guess if you don't have a conveyor to stack wood into a trailer it does mean you do not have to move as often. By taking 4'' only it allowa a much less powerful splitter so much faster cycle time with given hp.

**Tooler2** · Jun 12, 2019, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by Hans Pearson

I have looked a numerous log splitters and they all seem to work in one or another method on nice soft northern hemisphere pine etc., however, most if the splitters in Africa break before splitting more than a handful of logs, the reason being that the grain in our wild wood weaves and waves in all directions.

I grew up splitting elm..same wild grain

**TilenThaler** · Jun 16, 2019, 04:55 AM

I doubt that guy is still alive.

**ranald** · Jun 18, 2019, 05:45 AM

Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

While I liked his implementation of the capstan to hoist, it's an unnecessarily spartan machine when it comes to guarding overall.
I'm a city boy, with a faint rustic demeanor. A little bit of watching helps find wood to harvest; usually curbside.
I use a variety of manual methods, to avoid repetitive stress injury. They are 30" Estwing axe, Oregon Grenade, old school wedges, 3 pound engineers hammer, 4 pound sledge, a Swedish pruning saw, larger bow saw.
Cause she liked it when I took my shirt off.

goodun=LOL. sure you didn't just flexem & do the hulk. thanks for posting.

I prefer a stihl or a ten pounder.
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**Jon** · Jul 30, 2020, 01:11 PM

**IntheGroove** · Jul 30, 2020, 01:43 PM

She'll be limping for week or two...

**old kodger** · Jul 30, 2020, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by IntheGroove

She'll be limping for week or two...

AND THE REST.

About the best log splitter I've seen is a proprietary machine in Australia known as a "Super-Axe", made by Whitlands Engineering. It'll produce up to 40 tons of force.