It’s definitely a back saver. Especially compared to the vertical design to deal with large rounds, personally working with those kills my back. The lift makes for a great staging platform too. If I’m by myself, I’ll throttle down, load it, split, rinse and repeat. These splitters really need two people to utilize their speed, one to operate and one to load the lift, otherwise you’re just burning gas. Good thing I got 3 kids.
And John Deere sold their soul when they started offering their riding mowers at Home Depot. Same thing can be said for Ariens and Bolens and blah blah blah. A new Ace hardware moved into our home town about 6 months ago and brought in a good inventory of Stihl power equipment. It was the final nail in the coffin for the last struggling mom and pop power equipment dealer we had.
Wasn't exactly looking for one but my buddy took it on trade for his boat that I stored for 5+ years and offered me a deal. Everything works, no cracks in the plastic, no seat tears, almost no corrosion, and the skid plates are barely even scratched. The oil even looks like it was just changed. One owner and I think they must have used it a few times a year to plow their driveway. Oh, and it came with the plow which is in similar shape.
Sure, I'll get a few for you. As with all trees the bark varies with age and limb/trunk. Generally the furrows get deeper with age. Bark is thick, wood varies a bit i colour, often quite light in limbs although not ash light, but can be yellower in the trunk. for me it is the most consistently easy to split wood when green. it is very wet when green, freshly bucked it often pools water on the round ends. its heavy, and stil heavy when seasoned. tight grain and the medullary rays can be spectacular. The oak smell though...wow, it is strong on english oak. So hard to describe though...some moments it smells like sweet cider..or rather a fake sweet cider like the ice lollies I remember from when i was a kid, other moments its a sort of farmyard manure smell, but the nice sort...not pig sh*t! Most of that goes for european/turkey oak too though...which i not such a good firewood. English oak is more rot resistant, sapwood will stil rot, ...all of it will if wet, but you'll probably not have that trouble! I'll get you some photos, hope they help.
I don’t care who sells it, but they make such a big deal about their dealers in their ads. I have seen them sold in farm stores and hardware stores where the sales people didn’t know a bar from a chain. Only could quote the prices on the stickers. I guess that ‘someone’ in those stores knows enough to qualify for a dealership, but they are not always there.
Correct!
But it’s a good stink! I love when my yard stinks like that!!
Correct. Burns great, but smells like a cat box when cut and drying for 6 months at least.
