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ELEVOFF

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I bought a DHT 22 ton a few days ago and I am very impressed with the build and operation of this machine. This is my first splitter but it seemed like the best on the market. I looked at a few others and decided that this one was built better. The fully boxed tung and frame will hold up to those stray pieces of wood that get away from you. With the splitting maul moving away from the engine makes it easier to protect the componets. I ordered the log catcher and I think it will help protect the hyd filler tube and eng. I put this 22 ton through some 36 inch hickory with limbs and knots in it today. Not a problem. That's about as big as I want to fool with so I am very happy with the 22 ton. The 27 ton looked exactly the same except the cylinder was a little larger and the cycle time was 4 sec slower. (That's a big deal for me) I put up a cord in 1/4 the time it took me before with the Fiskers. Here are a few pics of the easy oak (notice the grain on some of the splits I have there) it didn't skip a beat. I don't have any pics of the hickory but same thing it barely slowed down through the knots and limbs on the hickory. I had no chance of splitting that hickory by hand.....I tried.
 

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Heading that way myself I guess. Love hand splitting but can't do it any more, at least not for the last several months. Every time I try it sucks.

Proly get a splitter of some kind or another next year.
 
I put this 22 ton through some 36 inch hickory with limbs and knots in it today. Not a problem. ...very happy with the 22 ton. The 27 ton looked exactly the same except...

Point well made... even if it was unintended.
For most of us firewood hacks... us fellas making firewood for our own usage, a true 15-18 tons (about what a 22 ton box store splitter actually provides in the real world) will handle 99% of what we need them to handle. And the simple truth is, the extra 5 ton (which likely ain't 5 ton) provided by the bigger model ain't gonna' handle much more than 99.2%.
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Point well made... even if it was unintended.
For most of us firewood hacks... us fellas making firewood for our own usage, a true 15-18 tons (about what a 22 ton box store splitter actually provides in the real world) will handle 99% of what we need them to handle. And the simple truth is, the extra 5 ton (which likely ain't 5 ton) provided by the bigger model ain't gonna' handle much more than 99.2%.
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the other side of the coin is that if you had a 10000000000... ton splitter and could split anything, those pieces that you couldnt split with 20 tons would just turn into a big pile of mushed up strings and garbage. ive also found 20 ton to be the perfect amount. anything it wont do, i just cut up with one of my 20 saws
 
I bought a DHT 22 ton a few days ago and I am very impressed with the build and operation of this machine. This is my first splitter but it seemed like the best on the market. I looked at a few others and decided that this one was built better. The fully boxed tung and frame will hold up to those stray pieces of wood that get away from you. With the splitting maul moving away from the engine makes it easier to protect the componets. I ordered the log catcher and I think it will help protect the hyd filler tube and eng. I put this 22 ton through some 36 inch hickory with limbs and knots in it today. Not a problem. That's about as big as I want to fool with so I am very happy with the 22 ton. The 27 ton looked exactly the same except the cylinder was a little larger and the cycle time was 4 sec slower. (That's a big deal for me) I put up a cord in 1/4 the time it took me before with the Fiskers. Here are a few pics of the easy oak (notice the grain on some of the splits I have there) it didn't skip a beat. I don't have any pics of the hickory but same thing it barely slowed down through the knots and limbs on the hickory. I had no chance of splitting that hickory by hand.....I tried.
nice saw in the pic too ELEVOFF. going to lowes in the morning but all they have had was the troybilt. hope to see one there.
 
the other side of the coin is that if you had a 10000000000... ton splitter... those pieces that you couldnt split with 20 tons would just turn into a big pile of mushed up strings and garbage.

L-O-L
My splitter, rated at only 18 ton, can make "mushed up strings and garbage."

If we don't count the first year (the learning stage), I can only think of maybe a dozen or so pieces my splitter couldn't handle in over thirty years of use. Even big, nasty elm crotches can be worked if ya' go at them the right way.
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Any one ever tried the troybilt splitter. I have a Troybilt rear tine tiller and that thing has been bullet proof. Worn out 2 sets of tines and it hasn't skipped a beat. If the splitter is anything like the tiller, it should be a pretty decent machine.
 
Any one ever tried the troybilt splitter. I have a Troybilt rear tine tiller and that thing has been bullet proof. Worn out 2 sets of tines and it hasn't skipped a beat. If the splitter is anything like the tiller, it should be a pretty decent machine.
I never had a Troy splitter, but we did have their tiller. It was a Horse model, back in the day, and if used a lot, they did have their problems.

They have a lot of bushings in them instead of bearings and those bushings wear enough that the the seals will leak, along with other problems. Lots of them blew the motors because the motor doesn't sit level when tilling and on BIG gardens, the tiller is in the tilling position for long periods of time. Then there's trying to keep those belts adjusted, and our's even wore out the tranny so it no longer wanted to stay in gear. We finally bought a second Horse model, but about at that time, I took over the gardens and did it right and bought a tractor mounted tiller. I'll NEVER go back to a back breaking tiller again! lol

Anyway, that second Troy tiller still looks near new, and sits in the loft in the barn, unused, year after year... One of the years, I'm going to get it out and sell it to a Troy lover! :)

The BCS is a MUCH better tiller! I wish we had known about them waaaay back when...

SR
 
Yeah, I like to hand split as well but this splitter is such a time saver its worth it. The saw in the pic is an 080 that I got off of EBay. It had been rebuilt and runs like new. I took a chance buying online and got lucky with a great saw. Every once and a while I do some milling with it.
 
Is this larger log table available from your website?

Not yet, we have only been selling it to customers in the Southern Hemisphere thus far. That said we have seen a couple of threads here where people are fabing up their own version so we are going to make them available soon. Unfortunately we are out of stock on the large one now.

You can order our standard version on Lowe's website now as well. Finally became active last week.
 
DHT; Can you get at the gas fill with the bigger table? And does it have a turned up lip at the outer edge to keep the wood from rolling off? I like the way it protects the engine.
 
DHT; Can you get at the gas fill with the bigger table? And does it have a turned up lip at the outer edge to keep the wood from rolling off? I like the way it protects the engine.


Yes you can still fill it. The current version doesn't have a lip because the customer wanted it 100% flat. We think we will add one for the North American market, because we agree it is a nice feature.
 
Any one ever tried the troybilt splitter. I have a Troybilt rear tine tiller and that thing has been bullet proof. Worn out 2 sets of tines and it hasn't skipped a beat. If the splitter is anything like the tiller, it should be a pretty decent machine.
have one since new.20 -25 cords a year for the last 10-12 years. on the second motor (honda) but am thinking of replacing with a DHT after i get enough feedback on AS.
 
I've been running my 22 ton DHT splitter for a few weeks and have been impressed so far. I nearly returned it right back to Lowe's after opening the crate. It was disappointing to see the poor paint job and sloppy welds. If I saw this unit on Lowe's floor I would not have purchased it. Call me old fashioned but a company should take pride in their products right down to the little details. Sloppy paint indicates sloppy workmanship. What else is sloppy on these units that I can't see?

Since I already had the thing out of the truck I decided to at least put it together and try it out. It has split everything I've put on it.

I'm nitpicking on these little details but there are paint runs on every painted surface on this thing. Now I've used it and rubbed off some paint so it doesn't matter so much ;)

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