Look easy to turn you arm into a…stump.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/83700048/?autoplay=true
Christ… That’s some redneck McGuyver shit if I’ve ever seen any.
Takes longer than a dedicated splitter.
I’m not gonna knock the ingenuity of that machine, but I think I’d rather use an axe.
I love this line from the description. It says all you need to know.
It looks unsafe because you’re sober.
I could not possibly count the number of cords of wood I’ve split in my life. I grew up in Canada in a house with no insulation, built in the 1920s, with just a wood stove for heat. Starting when I was about 9 or 10, splitting the wood was my job. I split massive maple and oak rounds, two or three feet in diameter, all the time. The lightest year would probably require 6 cords (a cord is 4’x4’x8’ of split wood). A cold year would really require a lot of wood.
I just used a sledge and wedges on the really tough stuff. Little bits of wood like this I’d do with an axe. I don’t get the point of mechanical or hydraulic splitters, unless you’re an amputee or something.
A bunch of morons in the comments think that thing is safer than a hydraulic splitter.
Using an axe is definitely faster for the first little while but a hydraulic splitter has a big advantage in my opinion if you want to split a lot of wood at once. You could split wood for hours after swinging an axe would have wore you out completely.
Try this one on for size:
[video=youtube_share;6h6s7zVF7_o]http://youtu.be/6h6s7zVF7_o[/video]
How many fingers does that guy have? I bet there is a pile of “extra” ones to the side of that splitter! That is crazy. One slip and something is coming off.
I am not real big on most safety equipment except ear plugs, but THAT is…crazy. Ingenious, but crazy.
Damn, I’m not sure which log splitter is more of a man eater…lol
What an awful injury that would be. His foot will look much like the hand of the thoughtless lad who blew it up with a .50 cartridge.
What could possibly go wrong? These all seem like perfectly safe methods.
I remember having something similar growing up. However, thing never did work as well as the 10 pound maul my Dad crafted up.
Better workout too and a whole lot cheaper.
“Quote of the month”
Two words: Death trap.
Looking at the first video of “Mother of All Screws”, I appreciate how the fellow demonstrated how to use various body parts to force the wood onto the screw. If the block does not catch, then use some extraneous body part directly behind it to force it on: knee, foot, hand. Kind of disappointed though he did not demonstrate the use of a head butt to do the same, would have made it a Safety Grand Slam. Rule Number One: always put a body part directly in the path of power tools or blades.
Especially those you have no ability to shut off if it begins to consume you.
It’s a Ford, probably stall before it maimed him to bad.
I think I’ll stick with natural gas for my heating needs!
I was grotesquely waiting for that thing to split the wood and drive into his leg.