Thanks sir I will and yes I subscribed before I sent the message earlier look forward to it,and love the Easton made trying to get one in bout a year or two
Ha! Jose loves the physical work. Believe me, I take good care of him. Besides, he’s 15 years younger than me! I do 95% of my firewood work alone, so that 5% of the time he helps me with wood I appreciate the break.
FYI Dick, Clifford will be there for you as long as he can and Jose will do the same! The 22-28 is doing an awesome job for you and Jose is learning his role with it. Hope you enjoyed your family extracurricular activities! Keep moving!
Thanks Obie. Clifford is a Woodyard dog for sure. I do 95% of my woodyard work alone. I have Jose help me 2 days a week with my landscape maintenance business. Occasionally we get done early and he has an hour or two when I have him help with the wood. It’s a great break for me!
Great video Dick. I had a pretty good chuckle at clifford. I was out back cutting down some poplar and every time I went fall one speedy wouldn't get out of the way. Glad to see jose doing well. Keep moving Dick.
That Hickory splits tough!! I definitely think sharpening the wedges will help but that 22-28 pushed it through the pizza wedge pretty well. I'm really liking my newly ported 50cc saw as well they rip when modded up a little.
Awesome splitter handled that timber well. Most enjoyable video.looking forward to seeing more. From me and my family I'd like to wish you all a fantastic Christmas and happy new year.
Merry Christmas Dick to you and family. I hope your 2024 brings you continued success as you have seen in 2023. By the way, Clifford acts like he has been binging on the Egg Nog a little too much.
Haha! He’s 8 years old (56 in human years), and like all of us he’s putting on the pounds as he ages. Merry Christmas to you and your family David! As an aside, Jerry’s passing really saddened me. We worked side by side in OSP engineering support and there were a lot of good memories. Realization of our mortality is sinking in. Such is life. Faith gives hope for eternal life when we leave this world.
Hi David. I’m anxious to get the grizzly bar built but it’s just too busy over the next couple of weeks! Do you have grizzly bars on your conveyor? If so let me know if you have any suggestions for my build.
Shame you didn't have someone that wanted to make some good lumber. I never cut a hickory down. I think they are some of the best trees for squirrels that are int he woods.
I would never cut any good live tree down just for the firewood. These came from a tree service job where the customer had to make room for an in ground swimming pool.
@@oldguyfirewood that’s to bad I have to buy hickory and oak if want to use it here. Looking at 30 a bag. You could probably advertise bundles for 15 and do good.
The machine is amazing. I’ve split elm and sweet gum. They are both way stringier than hickory. I haven’t split any large rounds yet with this splitter.
The 22-28 is a nice machine. We also just build a set of grizzly bars for our conveyor . They help quite a bit . The only issue I’m having now is when using the log lift bags the wood does not fall in . The grizz bars shoots it in & it makes my bags kind of fill up leaning somewhat . Now im trying to figure out how to add a bit of a backstop to slow the wood down coming off the grizz bars .
I never thought about the potential problems with the bags. IBC totes are almost all full and I was planning on going to the log lift bags that I have. I’ll have to figure something out. Let me know if you find a solution.
I will let you know if we find a fix. I was just thinking of some sort of hanging rubber the wood hits when coming off the bars , just need to figure out how that will mount . The bags still work they just don’t stand up quite as nice as straight off the conveyor . Personally I like the bags better than totes normally because most of out totes are cut out so the wood falls out unless your there stacking it . The bags do not need that attention when filling & are a full 1/3 cord. For us a bag stand is a must have . We built one to save the $ .
We came up with a fix that’s working ok . We took a heavy piece of plastic & screwed it to a 2x4 then clamped the 2x4 down on top of the bag holder and the plastic hangs down into the bag about 29 inches so the wood hits the hanging plastic to slow it down as it comes off the conveyor . I think a rubber mat would work better and we may do that at some point but this works ok . We have been removing the plastic once the bag gets filled up about 1/2 way or so .
@@oldguyfirewood I’ve plugged my 12-22 up several times, to the point I had to cut the wood out or pull it back with a chain. They love the straight wood, no issues there. I can just see the added power of the 22-28 really shining when you find a knott or twisted piece.
I'm surprised the 12-22 will plug up. The 22-28 will just push it through sideways... not good for scrap. I am trying to concentrate on straight, clear rounds. That is the most efficient use of the box wedge for sure. - Dick
