Hydraulic Log Splitter

http://www.AsktheBuilder.com host Tim Carter demonstrates the advantages of a gas powered hydraulic log splitter and shows tips for how to operate it.

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• hydraulic
• log
• splitter
• logs
• splitting
• wood
• outdoors
• tim
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[AsktheBuilder]

@junkman661 Vote down if you can split wood with an axe non-stop for over an hour. Remember, the machine never stops, but humans tire. Oh, and vote down if you can't split knotty wood easily with an axe. The machine yawns when it cuts through those links.

[AsktheBuilder]

@kbr61 The video is to educate consumers as to a potential choice. You mention way better methods, but when I went to your channel I didn't see a video showing one of them. Why is that?

[TheYoungster17]

English oak thats soaked up some water is a bitch to split with an axe...

Even an electric splitter would have been a godsend. I love oak. Unless i'm carrying/splitting it.

[cwaddle100]

Hahaha! I like your style TC..."forget 'bout it"! I think my dad was holding out on me or maybe he was trying to teach me a valuable lesson called manual labor.

[aguineapig]

@AsktheBuilder I've split wood with a 3 1/2 double bit for an hour.. And yes, I split knotty pine all the time, cords of the stuff. Just split with an axe from the side grain. Easy to hit between the knots. The rounds crack on the first swing 9 out of 10 times.

[AsktheBuilder]

@MrStrictlyStock Yes. It works great on oak or any hardwood. As I've said time and time and time again in other comments here, it's SLOW. Some people can't swing a maul, but they can push the lever back and forth. That's what this tool is for.

[MrStrictlyStock]

@AsktheBuilder Ever use that thing on hardwoods? That seasoned softwood isn't much of a test.

[MrStrictlyStock]

@junkman661 A maul would be much more efficient than an axe. Axes have little taper, and not much mass. For softwoods, I'd use a maul any day. But for oak and hickory, it had better be no bigger than 12" in diameter, or you'll need some wedges.

[rotortilttt]

27 tonn?? we got a log splitter who splitts in to 6 parts at the time and it only pushing 7 tonns who has proven to be more then enough for splitting hard wood + that it is 100 times fater then that one hehe

[zakamooza]

look at the size of this bad boy! lol

[arkansastrash320]

I have lower back trouble if i work too hard lifting and splitting with an axe never really hurt me its the moving of heavy logs and the dern bending.But i got me a 6ton electric log splitter and boy does it save my back and it will cut through joinst and wild grains.Thanks excelent video.If i needed a bigger gas splitter i would want one like yours.But my 6ton is plenty powerfull enough to do whatever i need right now.

[D0SI]

This is why americans are fat ... Too lazy to do the real work ... grab an axe and do some movement ... It won't do you bad ...