What you have to sell here is your claims you made. If you have a really fast and easy way to put up wood with a hydro there are many people that can learn from you since they own hydro splitters too. Many will keep what they have for any number of reasons, if they can increase production that would only be a good thing.
So, that is the positive side.
The negative is that you made a claim, now you back it up or lose respect.
Mr. HE
No...the video made a claim about drastically increased production and the video has things favoring their setup.
The most subtle thing is the apparent lack of a two stage hydraulic system on the demo hydraulic unit. On my unit the head does not move anywhere near that slow until it contacts the wood.I dont know about other hydro units
The most obvious thing in that video is neatly pre stacked logs ,that are off the ground. The stacking of logs should be counted into overall "productivity" . When I buck logs,they fall to the ground and stay on the ground until I stack the finished pieces. The majority of wood that I split is 12-14 inch white and red oak at 24 inch lengths (as my stove burns 28 inch logs) If i switched to splitting short logs as demo'ed, my bucking time would almost double, I would have to handle almost twice as many pieces to stack and to load up my stove. I dont see any near 30 inch long logs in that video. I dont see any one hefting them onto the horizontal splitter either.
I do see a hydro unit needing to do full strokes in the video ,when in my reality ,its almost never required.I dont (purposely) buck short logs.
A table of calculated logweights from woodweb dot com is in order.
Species: Oak, White Small End Diameter: 12.00 Large End Diameter: 12.00 Length: 1.00' Quantity: 1.00 Estimated Weight:
52
Species: Oak, White Small End Diameter: 12.00 Large End Diameter: 12.00 Length: 2.00' Quantity: 1.00 Estimated Weight:
104
Species: Yellow-poplar Small End Diameter: 12.00 Large End Diameter: 12.00 Length: 1.00' Quantity: 1.00 Estimated Weight:
35
Species: Oak, White Small End Diameter: 14.00 Large End Diameter: 14.00 Length: 2.00' Quantity: 1.00 Estimated Weight:
140
Folks should consider what they will be lifting and splitting before buying a unit that will not lower
its base to the ground.
Do you really want to pass on larger tree sizes because the log is too heavy
to lift by yourself? Do you really want to cut the entire length of all the larger logs so that you are able to lift it to split it?
Where is the productivity saveing in that?
