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Hey all, I'm taking a break from brewing stuff to buy a wood splitter. I am trying to choose one and getting a headache from all the choices/options. I am looking at one in the 22-25 ton range, gas, horiz/vert. Does anyone own one and could you give a review and/or recommendation? Thanks.
 
We have a freestanding stove we keep running 24/7 in the winter to really warm up the house. I've been getting split oak for $150 a cord delivered so its hardly worth splitting it myself. I did do extensive research when we first got the stove.
Hands down if I was buying a splitter I would get a kinetic splitter ...3 second cycle time...Ye Ha!!!
Have a look at this and super split splitters...Check out youtube videos, there mighty fast. The down fall of splitting wood is the painfully slow cycle time of hydraulics.

Pretty sure they have a free 90 day trial also


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I have a home made splitter we built about 25-30 years ago. on it's 2nd
engine, but runs like a champ. for safety sake, get a splitter that pushes a flat plate, not the wedge. that friggin' set-up scares me ... :beard:
 
We've got a homemade hydraulic splitter as well, Honda engine. We have a wood water furnace and go through a good amount of wood. The splitter is a monster and will go through just about anything...although some knotty stringy pine could be a pain. I'm not sure about the kinetic splitters. There is no doubt they move fast, but some of their cited advertisements are compared against some of the smallest, slowest hydraulics. I can't say anything bad, or good, about them....I just don't have any experience. I will say that I split a decent amount of wood, some pretty large. I've never been disappointing with my hydraulic splitter.

Smurf, seeing the video of that splitter scares me too. I'm very methodical and purposeful when splitting. There's just too much power there...to accelerate and get thing moving that fast isn't a positive to me at all.

For the record...the guy in the video is splitting some pretty small stuff!
 
through the years I've used a couple different units...
one was an older 20 ton northstar from northern tools. it struggled with oak larger than 16 or so inches. it had a Robin engine & worked fine for years until it developed carb issues & finally became more trouble than it was worth.
next was a husky purchased new at tractor supply. 22 ton with a Briggs & Stratton. worked like a charm. zero issues.
both of these were the variety that could be towed with the log bed horizontal, then you pull a pin & it swings upright so you can roll the logs right up under the wedge. the best ones in my opinion will have a stable base to rest the log on & the wedge will be attached to the end of the cylinder piston.
 
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Unless you're gonna be gangsta about it...

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