Commercial Log Splitter vs. Firewood Processor 

I used to work in the wood processing business in Norway for a while, we had a Dalen firewood processor, a slightly larger version of the Japa i would say. but we had it stationary inside a large building and had it on a electric engine. Was such a joy to work with, and thanks to the constant torque of the electric engine it never had slow downs by having to wait for the engine to pick up the torque under load. So if you get a self loading deck in the future and become more stationary with the machine, i can highly reccomend you go the electric engine route. Also 100% agree the pros and cons you showed, but i still would go for the firewodd processor and in the times one have a irregular piece, have a smaller log splitter and chainsaw you can use when you need them on the side, this was also something we did when i worked in the business, as some log ends would be to large for the machine, so we just cut them off before feeding them in the machine and delt with them later on.

I had a blast working with you Adam and that Eastonmade is a dynamite machine! I can't wait to do it again. Joe

What i find most enjoyable is to see how purpose brings people together in mutual respect for the journey each has taken to do well in their craft. Thanks to the both of you for sharing. 👍🏾

A perfect example of every piece of equipment being made for a specific job. Great video guys. Stay safe

Great video comparison Adam and Joe! It's interesting to see a commercial wood splitter versus a processor. I watch both of your channels. It's cool to see y'all together and sharing valuable content for the rest of us to see.

I really enjoyed this video👍when my RU-vid favorites get together even better thanks guys!

Great video guys! There are two thins you can do with the big nasty rounds. One, rip them in half or into quarters, two use a single wedge.

Thank you both for the video.

Pretty neat comparison there of the two machines in action. I guess each one has its pros but both are high quality. Looks like y’all had some great weather for the event as well. Take care brothers.

Great job in teaming up and showing great machines at work. I’m a new subscriber because of Joes channel.

Always cool 😎 to see guys sharing what they do!

Getting old and can not afford either.....but still cut small enough I can lift by hand on to the splitter. Enjoyed you competition though. Thank you.

Great comparison guys. Keep up the good work!!!

Adam, there's no doubt you guys had a great day together! Joe has a awesome RU-vid channel also! I really like both machines. Lifting heavy rounds and bent over a chainsaw sawing bucks definitely whoops my butt! The grapple is a big help for sure! Keep up the great videos bud.. 👍

Great content ... Thanks to both of you!!!

Another good job Adam, thanks for sharing.

Good comparison. I guess it proves that we are gonna need one of each.

Wat....cool. I watch both of your channels. Very awesome content. Aloha Adam and Joe.

It comes down to what a person can afford, both of these implements are not cheap for the average person.

Definitely an awesome video and comparison video

What an awesome video Adam! Joe seems like a great guy I'll definitely check out his channel 👍🇺🇸

Great Job guys!!

In fact, I did enjoy it. I enjoyed it very much Adam. Good overview of both. I think Joe is very fortunate - the logs we get from logging companies up here are the worst of the bunch usually - twisted, warped and bent for the most part. Not a whole lot of straight stuff, so I absolutely appreciate Joe's honesty regarding the challenges with logs that are not straight. But overall, given some good timber, loved to see the processor working. And certainly give some bonus points to the over 50 age remarks. LOL! Indeed. Any reliable solution to mechanizing as much of the process as possible makes good sense for sure. I was surprised at the difference time on the test run - I thought for sure that processor would be done well before you got your rounds on the table Adam. :)) Great video - thanks very much guys! Joe - I'll check out your channel for sure! Cheers and all the best guys!

Great video, best one I’ve seen. Joe is a grand chap I agree

Drone shots look awesome!!

I watched (almost) all videos of both your channels, it was a great surprise to see both of you in one video now. The even bigger surprise was Joe wasn't complaining about the weather, or did you cut that out? 😂 Keep up with your videos, I really enjoy them! Greetings from Germany ✌

I really loved the way the splitter is so much more versitile even though I understand the use of the processer.

Great video!

Looks like both of you had fun & enjoyed the company. Both good parts of a collaboration..

Recently found Joe's channel, is very good

Enjoyable video, it's good to see the side by side comparison as well as both of you guys and the same video. It was like going to see the Rolling Stones, just to find out the opening band was the Beatles. Well, maybe not quite that cool.

In the PAC NW, I was taught by my departed Father N Law to Split with a maul hit the big end, if using a Hyd Splitter hit the small end. Please try and see if you have a difference on a BIG Piece. I live in Central CO and will be heating my home with wood heat, now I have decisions. THANKS! Love the site and the Ohio Wood Burner site be safe

I am so glad u young guys are useing your wallets instead of your backs because i am 72 yrs old and made fire wood all my life with my brother and both of us had 3 back surgerys before we had to quit ..i will be watching u guys because i have nothing else to do

Good advice thanks

Adam you have access to logger poles you just have to buy them. That’s why I don’t want tree services to bring me wood because pieces like you processed is more work than worth IMO. I’ve had a block stuck on the Ultra and I had to pound it off with back side of maul.

Great work Adam, Great community spirit getting Joe along. Those big rounds, I'd cut in 1/4s with your saw and save some time and grief.

I bought a splitter that can be mounted on a skid steer either upright or upside down for those big rounds. I just lower the splitter down on top of the wood on the ground and split it from the seat of my equipment. The last split is done over my large tractor bucket where it falls right in.

Wow! Both of them are absolute beasts in their intended usecase! However, the versitility of the eastonmade is astunnishing. It can split anything thats wood.

Fun stuff, guys!

Good job

That is some Gnarly wood...looks like fun

Good piece of equipment.

Seeing those large firewood piles, I wonder about whether or not you have trouble with critters in the piles? Here in SD you would have rattlesnakes, packrats, mice, etc. in them. Race was closer than expected but I guess I would contend that Joe could keep up the pace for longer.

The splitter held its own. If I used wood for heat (when I will) I’d get a 25-27 ton basic splitter. They’re about $900-1,000 and will do the job. Great video and God bless!

Nice job of comparing the two different pieces of equipment. Also being honest about real life situations, and how to recover. I have a lot of large chunks, full of knots. Have not heard back from Eastonmade, is the 12-22 sold??

This is a late comment Joe, sorry. In my experience with machines like your processor, the reason your bar stops part way into a gnarly stick of wood is the bar & chain are coming into contact at an angle. If you have a bit of wear in the bar groove, then this pushes the chain to one side exposing the edge of the bar. This is what catches on the wood. Also when we were using a machine like yours, we had to make sure there was absolutely NO burr on the sides of the bar rails where the chain runs. This has to be filed off level every day. Best to have three or four spare bars ready to go to swap over if the bar starts to jam. And the chain has to be dead tight, much tighter than the chain on a chainsaw. Keep the oil up to it and it'll be OK. There was the option of buying a circular saw blade type with the machine we used and in retrospect, we probably would have been better off with that. A lot less sharpening and faster cutting would be two advantages. The initial cost may be higher, but one circular saw blade will outlast a heap of bars and chains. Believe me Joe, we probably had every problem that could be had with our machine, but these things were fixable. Coming up to Summer here in Australia here now Joe, so the saws & splitter are packed away for a bit of a sleep for a while. Looks like you're going to be flat out from now on though. All the best Mate, Cheers.

It would have been a virtual tie if HA log was off the ground. Lost a lot of time having to roll the log to finish the saw cut. Good comparison. 👍

Not sure why I love to watch log splitting but for some reason I do

Wow, some round at the end

How the heck did I miss this video when it came out 5 months ago? Or is my memory that bad... Anyway enjoyed th he video as always.

Adam, You did an awesome job and were virtually the same speed as the processor. There was a little hiccup as you sawed the wood but you did a terrific job overall.

Great video men. I am subscribed to both your channels. Thinking of getting into the business somehow.

I just started developing and will be building my first large commercial splitter. I'd love to get it in on your channel to compare to the Easton. I built one that was prototype and I threw everything at it. Never stuck, no breakdowns, and better yet no touching the wood to reposition. Tested on minimum 36" diameter dry and wet knotty oak, maple, hickory, ash, etc. Never stuck.

Easy way to get stuck block off wedge is to push the ram up to the block and wrap a chain around the block and the back of the ram plate then cycle the ram back. The back pressure of the hydros will pull the block back off the wedge so easy, like it wasn't even stuck to begin with! Took several years of beating the piss out of a block with a 16 pound sledge to figure this out - ha, ha!

That Big Splitter Make Life Look So Easy 😎🤙

Nice Collab video boys. I pronounce it JAPa. Adam how long of trip was it to Joe’s landing?

Splitting firewood for years is what has permanently injured my back. Because of splitting my back will never be the same. Cool machine but you can keep the firewood business I'm tapping out

I need a log splitter in my life....and a few acres of hardwood wouldn't hurt either!!!

"There is not a machine, a log splitter, a firewood processor on the planet that doesn't get jammed." Meet my Eastonmade 22-28.

That Easton made splitter is a beast. Too bad they're so expensive I would love one

To be fair the eastonmade should have had a box wedge where you really get the advantage on bigger rounds. Most will be better of with the splitter as it can accommodate a broader spectrum of wood sizes.

I thought you would use a box wedge for the big rounds. That was a good video.

Awesome collaboration with OH WoodBurner. great info. Does this mean your going to get a commercial processor and buy timber from The Morgan's ? That would be pretty cool.

Somebody forgot his chaps. Lol

My method for putting up 8 cords a year is the good old fashioned "cut-limb-buck-carry-handsplit-stack" way. Its cheaper, but then I'm not trying to make a living at it! And it sure keeps me fit at 53. When I can't do it anymore I'll buy my wood. Or maybe a wood processor...

John henry. Couldn t beat the dteam hammer

Awesome

13:04 solid advice

Adam, What size are your IBC Totes?

Adam how’s the holtzforma saw working out? I wanna get one to try but curious if you would get one again? I was looking at the t handle version the jon cutter for small limb work and the 660 Stihl version.

In what fireplaces can you use such big firewoods?

Get a longer bar for bucking. Bending over sucks over time. I don't do that. Good show.

How many cord does your tree guy give you a year? In PA i would think you'd have access to loggers and log loads delivered also.

Just. curious, why not let the conveyor belt load a delivery vehicle and save extra handling?

All really depends on what kind of wood you plan on cutting and splitting, the splitter is slower but can do it all, those processors are very fast but no good on the nasty big stuff, watch any of the processors videos and they skip the video when there is knot or big bend in the logs

Log rite can't hook with stand? Then you would have won or at least tied?

What does each cost?

You really need a tracked mini excavator with a claw to lift the OMG sized pieces of wood and save your back. It will do a lot of other work around the homestead.

Wouldnt a Box wedge been handier for those big rounds?

How much was the cost of each machines

Eastonmade splitters are impressive. You get what you pay for.

Japa works for perfect rounds, but the Eastonmade will split anything. I guess in the end they both have their application. Still, if I had to pick just one I'd go with the Eastonmade 12-22. And I did! LOL Shalom/gw

How would your axis splitter done on them rounds?

How much you buy your logs for

Great video . Def goin go check out joes channel.

Splitter pretty good.

Man Shame they dont sell steel cap boots in the USA , someones going to have a sore foot on year

Processor worked good.

Is the Eastonmade sold yet?

Joe obviously knows the business, that being wearing sneakers while splitting wood is about the same as burning a candle while pumping gas, Injury resulting from a bucked round or piece of fire wood is common and anyone who uses any type of splitting machine large or small knows the yard gets messy quick, I would imagine wearing sneakers routinely will guarantee you a twisted ankle sooner or later. Shorts? Not unless you got stainless steel shins Joe. You look good in the video but I got two words for you Wolverines and Carhartts. Gloves well that goes without sayings. Adam on the other hand is dressed for business

*Not bad time on the splitter* #WorldsOkayestFarmer

👍👍👍👍

Sometime rounds are just 2 big????

For big feral pieces like was being processed at the end I reckon a vertical splitter like the Eastonmade Axis is the way to go. You aren't manhandling a big hunk of wood backwards and forwards. It's the way to go on anything to big to process in a single pass past a 4/6/8 way wedge.

In New England,the knots and crotches we have ruin the functionality of the processor and all the time unjamming it make it null.

I probably would have ripped those big red oaks first then split them with Easton,no point busting your 🌰🌰ts to lift it on to the splitter,.and yes each splitter has its course .I would love you guys to check out a a brand called super axe made in Australia for hard woods.very tough gear.

WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY BETTER THAN MY BELLS 8000 FIREWOOD PROCESSOR

That big nasty stuff is where the King comes in. I eat rounds like that like they are candy with my Eastonmade 22-28

Hey if you have a chainsaw that has a 28 inch bar it will be easier to use the chainsaw standing up

Did it only upload in 480p? :o