NH575E
Senior Member
My house plans had a fireplace. I told the architect to erase it and add closet space there. I have a switch on the wall that heats my house just fine. If the power goes off I have a Diesel generator.
Im still young enough and have 80 acres of woods. The house has a fireplace and a wood stove, the shop has a big wood stove. I cut and burn around 13 chords of wood a year. So yes I use a lot of wood. It all payed itself back when I was -17 degrees last week and had no power. Worked out well.That's cute as hell but when I hit 65 I started buying my firewood. It's cut and split by somebody who's young and dumb.
How much wood do you use a year and what would it cost if someone else did all the work?
Looking at that thing I see you still cutting down trees and hauling them to your yard and then splitting the rounds.
Pay the young and dumb for that grunt work, they need the money and why the hell would you want to do all that?
They'll even stack it for a little more.
Joe H
Thats what I am thinking. There are trees I tackle that are 3 foot in diameter. I can cut slices into those size trees and are 18-20" long, but its still a big 3 foot diameter disk that weighs a lot. On those big ones it would be nice to use the hoe to jockey it around and split-I think??? Thats why Im wondering if anyone on here has used one?I've only split wood a tiny bit, with a standard horizontal/vertical splitter but this looks much preferable to me! I don't heat my house with wood so much but something like this would make it much more reasonable to do so.
WHoa!!!!! Now that is an Awesome Machine!!! You win for the coolest log splitter I have ever seen. What a beast!! I would love to build something like that some day. I have an extra jeep frame, beams and axles. I have a few V8 Engines laying around too. That is awesome. Perhaps I could build a 304AMC log splitter like that some day!!My splitter is anything but traditional...LOL
I do not use my equipment to split wood at all. I do use the loader to carry it tho.
My splitter is home made. It has a log lift that I LOVE. I previously made a splitter with a crane to lift the logs, but the log lift is the bomb!
My splitter has a 3 cylinder Briggs& Stratton (Daihatsu) diesel engine taken from a Toro mower
The axles are from a jeep, and the rear drives the machine via a hydraulic motor (ross)
Steering is controlled by an electric solenoid valve
Again, anything but traditional, but can shear a log at just above idle...It is a beast.
I really see no need for a splitter on my equipment at this point...just me tho.
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Yeah and that guy has the exact same kind of machine I do. His home made one looks pretty good. But by the time you add the materials, your time etc its hard to beat the price of the guy who sells them.This might be what you have in mind for a splitter attachment
I bet the coal was cheap to buy too. Coal is so plentiful in our country but it gets a bad wrap.I am going to be building a house soon on 15 acres of wooded land in the next year or two. I will have a pretty decent pile of wood that I could burn. I hate splitting wood by hand. I love that drivable log splitter.
Most of the trees on my land are 18-24" in diameter. No real old growth trees. I am guessing that 100 years ago the land was pasture or at least all the trees were cut for timber.
Once I burn through the pile of wood from building the house and cleaning up everything that has fallen and is good for firewood I will switch to coal. I had a coal stove in my previous house and I loved it. 2500 sq ft colonial and I heated it with the coal stove. I burned just under 2 tons per winter. House was nice and toasty. Only have to shake it down and fill the stove twice a day and empty the ash once per day. Shoveling a ton of coal twice per winter is much less work than cutting trees, splitting wood, stacking and carrying it into the house. Also made way less mess. You can spend more money and buy coal in bags like pellets.
I have propane in the shop to start it off on those days when I havent been in there for a few days, and its 20 degrees in there. The propane will heat it up fast, but I want the wood to be the primary once the chill is taken off the place.Aighead, I don't know if your propane company offers or you're enrolled in some kind of price lock system, but before I got hip to my company's shenanigans, if I wasn't locked in we got the sweet low price at the beginning of heating season...then "market fluctuation" kicked in when demand was higher..damn near tripled the price one year...after a heap of heated discussion on the phone and threats to cancel service we got the price lowered and locked..gotta watch them suckers...And don't forget it got cold and snowed in Texas so I'm sure that's why propane prices are going up in The Buckeye