Redneck Log Splitter

So here's our totally awesome log splitter, this thing makes cutting firewood a breeze.

Powered by a 4hp gas engine, the big wheel is turned by a small rubber tire to allow it to slip in the event that anything jams in there.

Since everyone's telling me that I'm guaranteed to lose life or limb by running this thing please donate to my hydraulic splitter fund by sending funds to chalackd (at) yahoo.com via paypal. As soon as I can afford it I'll go get a nice shiny hydraulic unit and scrap this thing.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• redneck
• log
• splitter
• wheel

[frigginwidowmaker]

Hey, buddy. Don't listen to these haters who've all spent $500 on a real(slow) wood splitter.

Safety features are for dummies who fall asleep on the job. A machine like this will keep you paying attention! What are you using for a motor? I need a splitter and this thing is ridiculously simple!!!

[chalackd]

@DetJohnKimbel OHSA wouldn't touch this, since by definition somebody would have to be actually employed to run it before it was even under their jurisdiction...

So many people seem to be missing the definition of *Occupational* Safety and Health...

[keensweep]

@frigginwidowmaker I agree hydrological splinters are way slower than that and you can still accidentally cut body parts off. I know more than one person missing fingers due to hydraulic splitters. Ive heard of someone who cut half there hand off with hydraulic splitter.

[medicbr549]

Did you notice the other guy has a finger missing?

[Divinelighte]

scared just watching

[chalackd]

@theantiredneck Well, the non-redneck doesn't split firewood in the first place, they buy it $6 per tiny bundle at the gas station, haha.

[chalackd]

@Commissarius I never thought of it in time, but during the hunting season up here I should've put something like a deer leg through it. I imagine that would be a pretty decent comparison to what it would do to a human arm...

[chalackd]

@sdm84 Getting drowsy at many jobs can cost that much or more. Go out and ask how many machinists or woodworkers think you can daydream when running their respective power tools. How many truckers will advocate driving down the highway when you're dozing off?

All this safety we promote nowadays is getting so far excessive that it's actually interfering with just getting the job done. And all it protects are the dummies that would probably be no loss from the gene pool to start with.

[sdm84]

@chalackd

oh man, getting drowsy on this job will cost you 5 to 10 digits.

[sjjdiienno1]

@Commissarius this is youtube. not 4chan. calm down.

[OpeiGrafikka]

You can see the weight of the 'head' shifting the rig. Would be easy to offset this by adding in the same weight on the opposite side, balance it out. Bearings / bearers would last much longer.

Nice rig. :)