I never have any fuel issues with my chainsaw (MS500i), and never did with previous saws. I use Sta-Bil every time. My saw sits idle about 10 months out of the year, and I do not drain it. As for my log splitter, it is a 20 ton electric. No fuel issues, no fumes, less heat and noise!
Buyers remorse once itemsbecame a possession, or someone used it and returned it in the same window. Or, they realized the wood doesn't split itself and even though you have a splitter, there is work involved.
Good luck convincing someone that it's normal to split free wood at their house and not yours. Most I'd consider doing is bucking into smaller rounds or noodling to make the rounds manageable. Then can up the mess. Never would even consider taking a splitter to someone else's house that I don't know well to split wood to take home.
"...I'd love a push through splitter with log lift but I can't justify $6k+ for one...."
People buy stuff they need for one job instead of renting it and return it, It's wrong, The companies just add their loss to their bottom line and you and I pay for it, It's just dishonest, That's what 80% of returns are, I knew a guy that would buy a nice set of clothes for a wedding, Or a special occasion and wear them and return them on Monday, Drives me insane! Although I know it's a short trip!
Yeah, things never change. I wanted the RM full beam six years ago for $2,900? (free shipping) but couldn't justify it.
Me too...! Thats why I modded one. We need a picture!
that's how we all start out... at the bottom and working our way up. do what you can, every effort pays dividends. I started out as a kid working nights at a fabrication shop. joined the military but held onto the skills I was taught every step of my life. 35 years later being lazy i built a wood splitter using skills taught to me 35 years prior. you can do it, but a cheap stick welder as you are working with thick metal its perfect and cheap. a piece of scrap steel here a piece of scrap steel there.... 90% of my splitter is 40 years old plus. the only new things were the hydro pump and the valve assembly, everything else was "scrap" but of good pedigree. everything else was just scrap...in everybody else's eyes....
Yeah, I have around $2000.00 in my current Home Built Splitter and probably 60 hours of work, But it is many steps up from anything from a box store. You can build one yourself cheap if you try to source everything a little at a time, The I beam, The ram and pump and hydraulic hoses will be what is the hardest to find. I have built 3 of them over the years, Where I live now there isn't many places to scrounge stuff. A Scrap yard is a great place to find much of what you need. One of my early splitters I built was made from scrap yard parts, But that's when I lived near Los Angeles and there was lots of stuff to be had. One of them I built I used an old lawn mower engine from a wheel horse mower and an old road grader ram, I did by an auto return log splitter valve and new hoses. Some guys have used large square tubing instead of I-Beam for the main beam.
Thanks for the good words! I hope you and everyone else are indeed correct. I looked at it yesterday and it's hard to understand why they would mount the log catcher on the wrong side...maybe they shouldn't own a log splitter in the first place, it seemed like a pretty obvious mounting to me.
I took this heirloom piece my dad built from 1980(?) and used it until about 2013(?) as it was, then raised it with an axle and tongue jack. Then decided to go full mod around 2016.
