Swisher Skid Steer Log Splitter

[jvpski]

Has anyone utilized a Swisher Skid Steer Log Splitter ? If so, please let me know how you like it, pros/cons.

Thanks

 

[reaperman]

I havent used one or seen one used, but when I first bought my bobcat years ago I was thinking about a splitter attachment. I never went that direction. I realized why would I want to put all those machine hours on a expensive machine like a skid steer. When a splitter can run for almost nothing on a small engine. Small engines can be thrown away and replaced for a few hundred bucks, skid steer engines are expensive to replace parts. I know a guy who has a 277 catepiller skid loader with only 1000 hours. The engine blew up for whatever reason (junk), it cost him 14 THOUSAND dollars for a overahaul at a cat dealership. Talk about highway robbery.

 

[jvpski]

Good point. Perhaps I will go the traditional route on a splitter.

Thanks!

 

[Mike Van]

What he said -

 

[Slick]

I've never seen the swisher one but I just got a bobcat mini skid steer and am planning to modify a 3pt hitch splitter run on it...its' a good point that the engine on a skid is more expensive than a splitter...but I keep thinking how nice it will be to leave the heavy rounds on the ground or even in the trailer and drive up to them, move the splitter and not the rounds, and split them...

 

[jvpski]

I would actually use it on with my compact tractor, not inexpensive either. The guy wants $600 for it, it was $1700 new and has little usage on it. So, that was my attraction to it at first. I am now debating it.

 

[ericjeeper]

I think he is feeding you a line of BS

I would actually use it on with my compact tractor, not inexpensive either. The guy wants $600 for it, it was $1700 new and has little usage on it. So, that was my attraction to it at first. I am now debating it.

About the new cost.. Maybe 700 new.. Rural King has them for about that all day and every day..

 

[Slick]

600 bucks for a used splitter that you're going to use as a 3 point hitch splitter on a tractor? LIke Eric said, you can get them new for 700 from anywhere, the speeco at tractor supply is about 700 new.


Actually I just checked, Eric is dead on, 600 bucks for a new 3 point Speeco splitter....

 

[jvpski]

Yes, I saw those at TSC. I'm not sure why this one retails for so much more:

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Swisher Skid-Steer Horizontal/Vertical Log Splitter, Model# LS5 ...
Heavy-duty skid steer log splitter has a universal quick-mount plate for use on virtually any ... Item# 2500903. Only $1769.99. Guaranteed Lowest Price ...
www.northerntool.com/.../product_6970_200317953_200317953 - Cached - Similar
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Shopping results for Swisher Skid Steer Log Splitter price
Swisher Skid Steer Log Splitter $1,579.99 - SEARS
Swisher Skid-Steer Horizontal/Vertical Log ... $1,769.99 - NorthernTool.com
Swisher Skid-Steer Horizontal/Vertical Log ... $1,976.49 - Amazon.com

I guess the skid steer and horizontal/vertical capability (?)

 

[Slick]

Other than a 5" cylinder on the swisher they would both basically do what you want, skid steer attachments always seem to carry a hefty pricetag.