wood splitter

[fredriktaaje]

Simple and functionally :-) You can cut your fingers even when you make yourself dinner... It is all bout respect for the equipment...

[Hisomuyi]

i find it hard to masturbate to this.

[SunsetSix]

All these poor fearful city folk don't understand how working around equipment like this forces a man to be more aware. If you grow up around machinery like this, you learn to respect it's power and you will take appropriate measures. Notice his first lesson was--Don't ever put your hand or your fingers in between the anvil and the splitter wedge.

[mfranzusan3014]

hey! that looks like an old Massey-Harris-Ferguson baler! was it a #3? we used to have one and i cried when dad scrapped it. this would have been the perfect use for it!

[eastrockaway11518]

fill out the accident report now .. while you still have the fingers

[frankthetank112244]

too dangerous for me, i love my fingers too much

[DownUnderDoug]

Great video, i need a splitter, good buy on the tractor.

[newrevlogsplitter]

Crazy, but it works.

[xellos013]

ho to get a dent in your car with risking your fingers

[bigbattenberg]

I am really amazed you use a machine as dangerous as that... no doubt that when you use it enough you WILL crush your hand or lose a finger or two eventually. Not to mention wood flying around and doing harm that way.

[steinderbush]

Hey man are you from Dutch origin?? kom jij uit Nederland??!

[martino1972]

@steinderbush yes,long time ago,lol

[mountfields]

Nice one !!! How many shear bolts have you broken??

[martino1972]

@mountfields none,cause all the places where there was one are welded..its too big of a bang when it hits the wood to keep them in place...

[ANDYtheTRASHMAN]

Nice log splitter. Careful, don't lose any of your fingers.....

[guitaryoder1]

as far as this thing being dangerous? Only to an idiot. How about using a chainsaw to cut the tree in the first place?????

[punishr36]

@guitaryoder1 Very good point.

[guitaryoder1]

really cool, its much faster than the hydraulic splitters and that old tractor probably runs all day on 2 gallons of fuel. Now if you had a conveyor to put the logs in the truck you would be stylin. I would use this splitter over any snail crawl hydraulic anyday.

[Aphidboy]

You're burning a heck of a lot more fuel per cord than I'm burning with my Briggs Vangard engine. And my whole outfit (that my father built thirty-five years ago) takes up a lot less space in the shed than that poor old baler of yours.

If you split wood with your machine for as long as I've split wood with mine, I'll bet you have fewer fingers left than I do, and I still have all of mine.

[kenfo0]

Martino, that is crazy. Your hands were pretty damned close a couple of times. EVERYONE says "nah, I handle it fine", and they do....until the one time they don't, and there's no going back from that. The machine is cool....you need a device to stop the cycle to load wood...tap handle, cycles quickly and waits. MUCH safer. There is a commercial product like that, but it looks flimsy. There's a YT vid of it I'll try to find. Good luck.

[kenfo0]

@kenfo0 here it is...................../watch?­v=uPrC5PS9MY8&feature=related

"supersplit"

[crisp2882]

Another baler converted log splitter awesome

[giovannibigpalas]

ha ha ha!..nice idea ... a little dangerous ..

[colbycous01]

oh,,,, you crazy canooks.

[walyll0]

old school... i`d get killed . head injury from picking up wood while someone would be feeding it... i could just see it happening, nice idea btw

[MrThisIsMeToo]

Nice splitter. I would love to have one like that.

[kent1234567891011121]

"no hand" woodsplitter best in canada

[Erniz2]

canada rulez ! Nice landscape!

[halfbonkers]

You must have split a lot of wood because there are tress left where you live.

[dirtTdude]

nicest tractor i've ever seen but the wood splitting contraption is a disaster waiting to happen.

[MrLeonard55]

Get a conveyor to load the wood into a truck.

[hendotintco]

it's all about the timing..great vid but still a bit scary.

[martino1972]

Yeah,if I look at other peoples wood splitting videos it does look scary to me as well...lol.But when you do it yourself it's less scary...well,most of the time,haha

[barta1967]

i just got mine working,  check out my other video

also

[martino1972]

I looked at your videos and gave some responses. :) Looks great...:)

[goodmechanic]

Canada is dangerous! Nice machine though.

[martino1972]

No danger is no fun,lol

[josderedneck22]

and your original from holland toch ??

[martino1972]

yes,I am(was),lol.... Moved to Canada 12 years ago....

[josderedneck22]

@josderedneck22 ik dacht het al te horen aan je accent !! goeie redneck uitvinding !!

[martino1972]

yup,cheap(free) and a hint of danger,perfect...:)

[Lithium023]

good way to cut the chickens head off lol preaty cool though

[martino1972]

I think I will just keep it to wood,lol

[7777dmith7777]

Nice splitter aaay !!

[martino1972]

Thanks...it looks ugly but it works well....:)

[barta1967]

I just started to build one using a 14T john deere baler.

[martino1972]

make sure to weld all the weak points solid,like where shear pins are etc... and watch your fingers...lol

[grod72]

I love this idea!! Also, my dad still farms with Cockshutt tractors. We have 4 560's like yours and 2 550's and 1 40. Great to see these at work. We live in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, USA

[martino1972]

@grod72 Yeah,those tractors are great...I plan to keep this one up and running for a long time to come....

[dutchurbanminer]

Klopt het dat ik een nederlands accent hoor ? verder een leuk filmpje , groet DUTCHURBANMINER

[martino1972]

@dutchurbanminer :yup,I immigrated from The Netherlands to Alberta Canada in 1998.I used to live in Groningen City,lol....

[jasonandem1]

that looks dangerous as hell....i love it. had a 550 cockshutt years ago. sick that i got rid of it

[martino1972]

@jasonandem1 yeah,I hear that a lot...It's hard to find helpers,lol....

[vindicator2008]

holy shit this looks safe.

[martino1972]

Yup,safety first....lol

[7544dude]

Does it ever jam up? or slip on the clutch when you have a tough log?

[martino1972]

the clutch I welded solid. I normally have a long rope on the pto lever from the tractor so in case i do get a log stuck or something happens i can pull the rope and the pto stops... it does happen with too big logs or if one gets in sideways...

[7544dude]

Cool I built one exactly like this and welded the clutch. I will post in a bit but it hammers 'em out....

[berramarco]

interessante la modifica da imballatrice del fieno a spaccalegna ma personalmente lo ritengo un po pericoloso.

[honeybees1]

Utube ate my reply.

[pepegeekgo]

nice job what make of baler is that

[honeybees1]

I have been heating my home with a wood gasification boiler with an 800 gallon heat storage tank.When i see people that like wood and cool toys a feel the need to tell you ,Peace

[martino1972]

interesting,mind telling me some more about that system..?????

[joferg70]

I had a hugh H beam about 18" x 8" very heavey, so any way made a right angle by chopping and welding a bit. The got a ram of a JCB site master and made a slidding head wich runs along a smaller H beam welded up the middle of the large one......jees hope this makes some sense.....any way at the end is a vertical sharpend spleeter head with a cross head. Made 3 of them before it was strong enough.Kept self distructing. Now can cut through knots etc. Will do a ton an hour roughly. I am building a

[xFYSxNoChanc3]

thats pretty smart nice job 5*

[martino1972]

lazy people come up with good inventions,lol

[joferg70]

I think it is quite ingenious, however an accident waiting to happen?.....Although hydrolic is slower stroke, you have time, plus you could weld a cross axe head and split four in one stroke, that is how I made mine. It cuts through knots and all no prob. All the best, John from Scotland.

[martino1972]

It's not a machine to be stupid with,as long as you have respect for it,it will be safe....

[alloberta]

very good video, nice tractor, but in Germany u get a white jacket on and get arrested in a rubber room...

[martino1972]

that's probably where I should be anyway,lol

[prickskytte]

Looks great . Fast splitter , btw do i hear some dutch accent :)

[martino1972]

yup,came to canada 12 years ago,guess I will never loose the accent,lol

[gettuff2]

Nothing like a bit of rythme in your work!!!

[martino1972]

It's all about the rhythm......lmao..

[daw162]

It really doesn't look that dangerous to me. It just requires the operator to have a brain and follow a few simple rules. Like an amishman around here tells me about his old tools in his shop- "you can use my tools, but remember they don't have brains". (meaning your brain is required to keep you safe when you use them).

It looks less dangerous than a radial arm saw or cordwood saw - long as you keep the area clear where your feet are.

Nice machine.

[WyoCaterpillar]

I like it! Persoanlly I would slow it down a bit. It would give you a bit more time to get out of the way. Even if slowed down the cycle rate is way faster than a hydraulic splitter.

[martino1972]

see,i only grab a log on its sides,never on the ends..

and the "pusher" is not very high,i can easily keep my hands on top of the log when its getting split..

when i'm in a ritme,i can have a log in there every stroke,we split a pickup box full in 10 minutes..

[localcrew]

It's not the most dangerous hay baler converted to a log splitter I've seen on YouTube. It is, however, the second most dangerous hay baler converted to a log splitter I've seen on YouTube.

[nucleuscontour]

Scary log splitter to work with. One mistake, good bye hand....Barry in PA.

[martino1972]

yeah, i agree with that..

when im splitting,im never talking,never looking up,always keep my eye on the plunger..

and never in a hurry,just follow the ritme..

[Davidsfarm]

that is so much better than a hydraulic one. i love it.

[martino1972]

thanks,it took me 2 evenings to convert the bailer into this splitter,and we have split several winters worth of wood with it,for our self and some other families.the only source of heat we have is the woodstove,so we use alot of wood,and it never let me down,it's a simple machine,have to watch out abit for your hands,thats why there's no beer holder on it,lol

[99cachorro]

nice set-up. looks like the way to go

[martino1972]

thanks,it works great,gotta watch the fingers,lol

we heat the house only on wood,so the splitting can't take to long,i got a lot of wood to split every year