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Posted by Harry K on June 19, 2006, 11:03 pm
Jim McLaughlin wrote:
> > Just had three old dead or dying trees cut down. Now I have a lot of
> > wood to chop for firewood. After chopping away for an hour with my old
> > ax, maul and wedge, I'm thinking there's got to be an easier way to cut
> > up the wood. As a senior citizen, my shoulders and back aren't what
> > they used to be. Searching on the Internet, I saw an Anaconda wood/log
> > splitter for sale on Ebay for $30. It's a spearlike tool that one
> > sticks into the wood and then moves a lever up and down until the wood
> > splits. They claim that it replaces the old tools like the ones I
> > already have. Has anyone tried it before? Does it sound like it would
> > work? I can't afford to spend hundreds of dollars on those hydraulic or
> > gas powered splitters. Thanks for any advice.
>
> I've rented the big hydraulic splitters on occasion. Was $60.00 for 4
> hours, IIRC, last time I did it.
>
> Had the wood all pre cut into 16" "rounds" and sort of all lined up. With a
> couple three neighbors we went through 3 big Doug firs .
>
> I've done the maul, sledge hammer, wedges, "wood grenades" route, too.
> Still do it in limited amounts on occasion, but like you, being in the
> "senior" status, I don't this as well or as often as I did 35 years ago.
>
> I don't think I've ever seen the "Anaconda" product you describe.
>
> I did once borrow and try a yellow metal thing, you put the log upright on
> the base, lowered a wedge thing onto the top of the log, and then hit the
> wedge thing. I g uess the idea was that the frame of this thing kept the
> wood upright and you did't need to worry about t falling over. I never used
> it aain.
>
> --
> Jim McLaughlin
>
> Reply address is deliberately munged.
> If you really need to reply directly, try:
> jimdotmclaughlinatcomcastdotcom
>
> And you know it is a dotnet not a dotcom
> address.
There are a lot of such type things out there. Most of them based on a
manual hydraulic jack. They work very well indeed but only for
extracting money out of the purchasers pocket. The only _cheap_
splitter that does work that I am aware of is the "Stickler" or
take-offs of it. Those are so dangerous I wouldn't be around one while
it was working.
Harry K
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