Belt driven/flywheel firewood splitter

[Rooster]

http://www.youtube.com/user/OurBarns#p/a/1/LTBOh2MgIx8

I'm not sure why it takes two guys to buck logs on the buzzsaw...but the spitter would be fun!

Rooster

[Tom]

This is a real puzzle.  For some reason, I've been having a lot of troubly seeing some of the new videos.  They will provide audio while they load, but no video. If I replay, sometimes I get a picture and I can click on the moving button and see a still, but I can't see the thing as a movie.   I suspected my computer, but it has been cleaned up and has lots of room.  I suspected my connection, but it is a Broadband Cable connection and still shows the old videos. What the hey!!

[beenthere]

That buzz saw is very dull, or sharpened very badly. Might be why it takes two.  :
If placed nearer the splitter, the guy could take the block and have it split before the next one dropped off the dull buzz saw. 

There is a buzz saw on CL locally, and it is quite a creation.
Apparently it is for at least two people to use, as there is a short cradle for the log, and a lever to move the cradle on two-tracks.  May go to see it if I can, just to satisfy my curiousity. It is belt driven, and on a two steel-wheeled trailer arrangment.

[mountaineer]

what flavor of wood are they working with? anyone?

[Harvey]

Ash maybe ?

[Woodchuck53]

I wish I had uniform dia. wood like that to split.

[isawlogs]

I really like the demo's with knotless wood .  ;D  I want to plant some of those .  :P

[sawguy21]

The guy on the splitter best give it his full attention or he will be known as stumpy. It could get nasty if it hits a knot.

[mike_van]

There's one of those splitters at the CAMA grounds here.  A guy could probably count on  one hand [because.............]   the reasons they aren't made anymore.

[RSteiner]

I think I saw that splitter at a fair this fall around Concord, New Hampshire.  It was running but nobody was splitting anything when I was around it.

I think I'll stick with my SuperSplit, same principle but not quite as fast or dangerous.  With that old splitter I wondered what would happen if a nice knotty piece didn't split but hung on to the wedge.  I guess it would make a great walnut or hickory nut cracker. 

Randy

[timberfaller390]

While this machine does look dangerous I would say since the wedge doesn't go all the way down to the table it would be alot safer than the old splitter someone posted a vid of that had a 10' dia. flywheel with two wedges attached that swung around, hit the wood, went through a slot in the table and came back arount again, narrowly missing your hand on every pass.