As I was armchair splitting, I thought “hold smaller rounds on top of the one in the cradle”. Then you did! You’re a smart feller. And when Tony is around, you’re a fart smeller. Cheers 🇨🇦
So glad I went with the 12-22 over the Axis. I need more production versus precise cuts and thinking a conveyor is already in the budgeting plan lol I'll say it again, after seeing these things in person, these videos don't do them justice!
Well Chris that's one heck of a splinter it's definitely a two man job. A lot of wood can be produced. With two men. But I still like yours. Goodnight Irene.
Holy crap! That machine makes firewood fast! Bundle grade with one push. I'm gonna have to start saving my pennies...Thanks to you and Harry for sharing this machine with us.
The 6-way wedge with those size rounds make very fast bundle wood. I can't wait for my John's Welding bundler to come in and team it up with my 12-22 !! I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for making them for us! You and Adam with Hometown Acres have made me want to make my own firewood channel.
I'm not too sure I'm a fan of the 6 way. Looks like it makes a lot of scrap. ETA: maybe it's just the smaller wood being split. Larger stuff seems to fare better.
I currently own the same machine with all wedges. 6 way you want to use with the correct diameter wood. Generally the 4 way does best all around with nice product at the end. My opinion cheers 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦
Andrew Easton makes some nice equipment 👍. Interesting to see how much the 12-22 can do, probably really good in 8-12 inch or bigger rounds. Great video as always, not many people can make splitting wood entertaining for a 30 minutes. Watch every day 😁
Those rounds are perfect for Ultra but the 12-22 made nice splits good bundle wood. To operate the 12-22 at full speed it would take at least 3 people and a conveyor to work that splitter. A processor is starting to look better the way your business is growing
wow what a machine. I laughed at the way the splitter pushed itself backwards once the stack got too high and solid.😁😁. you know you'll need a conveyor and feed hopper next. Chris TRP
Hi Chris,would have loved to see the box wedge on that small more uniform cherry wood. Might makea bit less "kindling" and fewer resplits. Good night Irene from Hawkes Bay,NZ
Nice video. Yes, 2 people make it much faster. My son and I have been running the 12-22 for over 2 years now and we got it down to a science. One person operates the machine, while the other tosses split wood and loads the lift. Then we rotate. The pusher plate never stops moving. Great job and nice wood yard.
Morning Chris. For my heating needs, the pieces with the six way are too small. It’s definitely a 2 man operation for producing large amounts of wood, maybe even three people. An extra person for stacking. That is one hungry splitter. Have fun👍
Two at a time made it look way better. That machine has its place in the world. It’s so fast my hobby would no longer be an all year around activity. Weekend only lol.
Good morning Chris!!😀😀 The 12-22 is a real animal. It definitely takes two people to even begin to run it to its potential. I see it likes to crush anything that gets caught crosswise in the shoot. Can't wait to see how it goes with the two of you guys working with it. 22 below zero farenheit here this morning. Hopefully you are staying warm. I have to go out and put some wood in the boiler in a little while. Take care and stay warm!!😀😀👍 Logger Al
@In the Woodyard, Just a thought Chris, stand opposite to the logs. Operate the shuttle handles with your RIGHT HAND! Standing opposite the logs roll the bottom towards you, the rest will follow and you may not get your right arm caught by the ram if you’re standing right beside the logs! Just a thought! It may actually feel better to and physically easier
I think your right about the 12-22 being a 2 man machine! Seems like if not it is setting waiting. Just put an auto return valve on your ultra and it will be the perfect machine for you😀👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Andrew Easton certainly can build them and their easy on the eye, look’s like it’s tractor time. You could use a wood bucket with the rod’s in the bottom sift the snow out and chips it does make it enjoyable.
Harry got a nice machine. I think with your size of wood, the ultra is right. For the wood rounds i have, the 28 HO is similar to the 12-22. Andrew and Chris make quality machines! I'll see you tomorrow in the woodyard, i mean on you tube!
Oh no! Now you’re probably not gonna want to go back to stand by your ultra. It would have a strong chance of making it in my garage if it had a Honda on it. ❤️
The large pusher makes the wood get split a lot faster. Bet you love the ability to stack and split two small pices at the same time. The log lift sure makes for a nice work table!
I got the equivalent of this splitter from a different manufacturer. I cant wait for it to get to me! I can see a conveyor is needed to get the splits away quickly. Until I get a conveyor I will be splitting inefficiently. Just tossing the splits into my dump trailer.
Morning Chris!…fyi…I think we are racing Black river falls to the lowest reading (air temp not windchill) in the lower 48 this morning. We are tied at -35*f at 0700.
Eastonmade called yesterday and my 12-22 is going on the delivery truck today! Just in time for a weekend snow storm to bury my wood… I have a feeling I’ll still be splitting this weekend.
Yeah she’s a beaut, though it’s missing one feature that your Ultra has-the automatic separation from the pile feature, she’s just to stout. The time savings for you having the rounds stacked by Beau, nice. Have a good day
that’s a nice machine! betcha it cost some serious jing, my buddy has these timberwolf splitters like that and he has two guys on each one, they make 5-6 full cords a hour combined, but with his labor and equipment cost…well profits are low, i just run those cheap ones with two guys and get 2 maybe 3 cords a hour combined and profits are high, also after two years i sell the splitters for half there cost and buy a couple new ones before they start breaking down, so i have half the labor cost and the splitters cost me 3000 vs 24000 for the big dogs, but really only 1500, my production is half his in eight hours, but no equipment payments allows for more labor hours, so in the end when all the smoke clears it’s probably just about even…unless i sell just as many cords in a season!
Great machine for 2 people. For your situation in my humble opinion your ultra is a better fit. Especially if it came with auto retract. Ultra pushes herself backwards perfectly for your stacking. That 12-22 needs 2 people splitting 12”-18” wood
Another great video Chris 👍 I know you've heard this but I'm going to say it again you need to get a Lube Lock grease gun attachment. Will save you much aggravation . Keep up the good work.
Any machine that’s faster than Chris and his Ultra is impressive. Guess the 6 way wedge would make great bundle wood and oodles of kindling. Matching manpower, round size, and split size desired for type of firewood being sold to the wedge height adjustment and/or type of wedge used would be key to utilization of this beast.
I'm going to call that a 3 man machine to get the most production out of it and still produce consistent size firewood ie either feeding same size rounds (sorting) or adjusting the wedge or feeding one stacked on the other. It will keep one person occupied running the machine and one loading and another keeping it away from the machine. Machine is fast, looks heavy (hard to move?) and well built. Might be a machine that you can't keep up with by yourself (I haven't seen many of those). GNI
Great video! I think with the way you had the woodpile stacked, you would be a lot faster and waste less time if you dropped the log lift and put the rounds on one at a time. Cycle the splitter and while it cycles, you can grab another round. Just my opinion though. I just ordered that exact splitter, too bad I have to wait almost a year,
I tried that the next day for a while and found that it just needs 2-3 people to maximize its potential. Feeding it is the bottle neck, and that is a good thing!
Toothpicks! Although if that's what a specific wood burner calls for, then perfect. I usually don't split smaller than 8" if not round, or 6" if round, and even then, just halves. The kinds of rounds on the video would just be a quick axe or maul swing, just to halve them to expose grain for drying. If the round is bigger than 10" I might manually split quarters, or 14", sixths. If bigger than that, I use a single wedge hydraulic splitter (Honda 160 w/2-stage pump) and just keep splitting until the biggest endgrain dimension is within the range of 8-10". For whatever reason, that little splitter hasn't ever found a round it can't split, even when vertical taking on 45" rounds. I think that two-stage pump really multiplies the energy. That splitter of yours would really speed things up I suppose, but I love to swing a maul most of the time, and the wood on this video looks perfect for that.
That seems like a decent production splitter. I am usually not a critic of stuff you high caliber firewood guys use, but that 6 way wedge seems to make alot of kindling.
hi there well it looks to be very well made, Fast but if you need a helper to max the splitters potencial it really might be less profitable in the long run. Most the time you split by your self . I look at fire wood a bit different then others . How many cords per man hour ? . From the cuttings rounds to the final stack in the wood yard . I have found the splitter never to be the bottle neck . More help cuts into your bottom line and you don't want to be doing that just for fun and exercise , its hard work .. take care and be carful around that big nice fancy machine there is a big learning to get use to it john
Good morning, No question that it's a beast, oh my! A fella would definitely have to hook a conveyor to the end of it. Is there one of those in your future?
A little more practice and you will get a hang of using the six way wedge with your blocks. Not sure if you alone can keep up to it though. Nice day for splitting firewood.
It looks strange to me because I use a boiler and most of the beginning splits I’d just halve. But I know every one has their own specs. Nice machine tho. Stay warm. No frost bite!
Man that put out a crap load of wood. The biggest limitation seems to be how quickly you can clear the splits away from the base of the machine so that you have working room.
Hi Chris, boy oh boy that 12-22 sure looks fast. However, looks to me like that 6-way, in 3-way configuration, is producing a lot of kindling. As the wedge is set down low, you seem to be getting a lot of over-ride too! Am sure a man of your calibre could fine-tune the wedge position so that you could get better firewood. I know you are happy with your current splitter, but is this the first sign of a possible upgrade? If it were me, I would want the Honda engine though. Bo is back tomorrow ah! Don’t put him on that splitter 😱 not unless you are prepared to collapse with exhaustion 🥵🥵🥵. He has to earn that $35/hour…..and he really is the ‘machine.’ Len (Devon 🇬🇧).
I've paused it at 6:45 and noticed, just as others noticed in first 12-22 vid that there appears to be a lot of small pieces of wood being created. Is this created because the steel is so thick because of it's heave durable design? It appears a smaller piece of wood would traditionally be split in half is actually split into 3 pieces ( 2 normal size pieces and a trash piece). NVMD, I now see after 2 min later it appears to cause a lot of splintering when the 6-way is used on smaller wood. Makes sense.
You split split multiple blocks at once with that splitter if they are small diameter. Probably could split three or four at a time if you do it right and line up the wedge correctly.
Yes it is fast and I think that WOW you said about how fast it is you would say even bigger WOW if you would get the Yapa processor with the type of wood logs you are doing. Time is money and we know how much you like Uncle Ben.
👍 I’ve never used one of these or actually seen one in person. I see why you used the 6-way wedge above the horizontal , is there a “V” cut into the wedge below the horizontal wedges? Basically, can that wedge be lifted hydraulically where you use the wedge below the horizontal wedges to split smaller rounds in half ? Thanks, John.
When your 12-22 arrives, I'll buy your Ultra. Minus 21F in Wautoma this morning and the fuel pumps at work might have gelled up! Went to top off my tanks and only one pump was barely pumping. The other pump was dead.
That splitter can almost keep up with your saw. It's like being attached to your drops like a processor. I'm guessing your nephew is still too young to run the splitter. If he had been splitting instead of stacking, that pile would already have been half-done. Especially if you turned off your saw when you had too many pieces and helped him before going back and sawing. All that stacking he did for a couple hours could have been converted to splitting time.
That's one awesome machine. I was wondering if you regret not buying Tony's ? I know it's all about timing and cash flow but sometimes you gotta bite the bullet for something that will probably happen anyway down the road. Thanks for the vidjas really enjoyed it.
