Got firewood?

[Jeff7]

Cool.

I wonder if they have french fry die.

Or one of those onion blossom cutters. Instant chopsticks.

Nifty.

 

[Rubycon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1HZztie5ac

When they catch spammers/malware writers the punishment should be to sit on one of those.

 

[DrPizza]

Awesome machine if I were doing it as a business. But for personal firewood, nothing beats how stress relieving it is to cut up a cord of firewood and split it by hand - as long as the kids stack it when I'm done. Nothing will ever make stacking not suck.

 

[Jeff7]

When they catch spammers/malware writers the punishment should be to sit on one of those.

I am very much in favor of this.

 

[lupi]

that thing is so beautiful.

 

[skyking]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeanPDO-D6M

 

[Rubycon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeanPDO-D6M

How long does the chain last compared to a carbide tipped rotary blade?

 

[eldorado99]

Chainsaws are cool.

 

[skyking]

How long does the chain last compared to a carbide tipped rotary blade?

depends on how clean the wood is. Clean wood, probably a full day then change it out for a sharpened one. You can do the swap in 5 minutes. Yuo can sharpen chains in about 5 minutes on a belsaw grinder.

 

[Modelworks]

We always got ours from a local furniture company. They got rid of old oak and ash scrap from making legs. Came in nice 4x4 sized pieces about 8 inches long. Enough to fill a truck cost us about $50. Ash wood burns forever it seems, but is a bit hard to get started.

 

[Rubycon]

depends on how clean the wood is. Clean wood, probably a full day then change it out for a sharpened one. You can do the swap in 5 minutes. Yuo can sharpen chains in about 5 minutes on a belsaw grinder.

If the wood is muddy it will dull faster? I know chains touching the ground kill their edge real quick.

 

[D1gger]

I'd love to see that thing work on some hardwood like oak or some other knotty wood. That softwood it was splitting was really nice and clean but not all wood is that easy.

 

[kage69]

Yeah those things are friggin cool. A custom wood furniture place not too far from me has one for commercial sales of firewood, sort of a side income thing. Only place I know of that will sell it in 1/4 cord increments too. They didn't used to have the machine in view, now it's parked out front for all too see. Before I knew what they were using I remember being baffled by how awesomely consistent and sized all the wood was, like htf can a dude do that with an ax in such quantity?! Their particular machine goes though ash like it ain't there, and one of the people that works there said it can handle beech the same way (!!)


*drool*

 

[BurnItDwn]

http://www.fiskars.com/webapp/wcs/s...001&langId=-1&catalogId=10101&productId=10530 <--- this is my favorite splitter.

 

[kage69]

http://www.fiskars.com/webapp/wcs/s...001&langId=-1&catalogId=10101&productId=10530 <--- this is my favorite splitter.

Mine too. That and the standard Fiskars ax is all I use. I've split 18" rock maple rounds with mine, if there is a better design I haven't seen it yet (short of using diesel powered hydraulics anyway...)

 

[skyking]

If the wood is muddy it will dull faster? I know chains touching the ground kill their edge real quick.

Dirt, ground in rocks from being skidded to the landing, etc. All those kill chains and saws too.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Mine too. That and the standard Fiskars ax is all I use. I've split 18" rock maple rounds with mine, if there is a better design I haven't seen it yet (short of using diesel powered hydraulics anyway...)

I was surprised with it ... I was used to heavier 30+ inch axes ... but this little guy can split as good as or better than any other axe I've ever used .....