I bought this one last fall. It really is a good splitter... I run a wood stove all winter and this made quick work. So quick, I split everything in a week. I had a lot that will probably last 2 or 3 winters.... but I cut on my uncles 40 acre woods plus my dad has the county electric company drop wood off all the time. So i have no shortage of wood.. I have great neighbors.. we both just have an acre of land in the country... it's him and his wife first home and my first home... saw him out hand splitting... so I hooked my splitter up to the truck and drove it over there... they're the type of people who you can trust loaning stuff too. They cover it up on rainy days. Great people. Hope they're enjoying using it.. I can hear him out now splitting wood. It's good to have great neighbors.. we are in the country but the houses are kind of close... my other neighbors is a 94 year old widow. Barely any family close. I cut her grass... check on her... sometimes she hallucinate thinking people are in her house... sometimes I have to go over and check all her rooms to to prove nobody is living there. She has a daughter way out of state who remotely takes care of all her needs... any way... she called me... asking if I had a snow blower (northern Indiana we get some snow) I said I sure dont... she says do you have time to come over? I said we'll sure. She says, I wanna give this to you...I said oh no that's expensive, let me pay you... she refused and said her and her daughter want me to have it.... was a brand new barely used tray built top of the line snow blower. Such a nice thing.
I grew up in a stone farmhouse built in 1836. We always cut wood in the winter months. We cut down live/green trees and dead trees. We burned it in a coal furnace. We started the fire with dry dead wood and once it was burning good, we threw in green wood. My dad always said the dead wood burned up to fast so that was his reasoning for burning the green we never cleaned the chimney, and we burned wood from 1960 to 2000. Never had a chimney fire. His reasoning for cutting in the winter was as he always said the sap is down. Don't know if that was true but we made it through all of those years with no issues. By the way we cut Ash, Wild Cherry. Elm, and Locust. split it with a double blade ax and a sledge and wedges. No log splitter in those days.
No they have a 32 ton model. I think locust would give that gum a run for it's money and we didn't have a goddamn splitter and we did not let it sit for a friggen year we got a sledge and wedge to split it, .and we burned cords every winter. My dad never pussyed out he got the wood split. Young guys today could not hold a candle to him. Oh yes he dug graves for three cemetery's by hand with a shovel digging bar and a pick. He would be 111 today.
Do you notice little bubbles in the clear line that is input to the hydraulic pump? I have the same mode. I'm running mine on level ground and when I start it up, the fluid turns from looking like oil to a little bit opaque from tiny bubbles. Called the service center and they wanted to make sure I was running it level which I am but I get bubbles anyway.
