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Posted By: Finster

Well, I got my log splitter. Pics added - 05/08/20 06:09 PM

Pulled the trigger and bought a log splitter last night. I decided after a bunch of research to go with the Champion 27 ton. Reviews were good, plenty of videos on you tube with happy people and it seemed the best bargain for the money. It was about $500 cheaper than comparable models and had a slightly larger motor. It took me about an hour and a half to put it together myself. It's really a two man job but with a little hocus pocus, I was able to handle it. I've gone through about 50% of my rounds splitting so far and it's taken everything I have thrown at it. Some really knarly stuff too. I cut down a big what I believe was a Pin Oak. It was around 90 years old and had really stringy twisted grain. It blows right through it. Pops the Y's right apart with little effort. My maul would just bounce off of it and my wedges would only go in a couple inches and bounce out. I'm just about to get into the big stuff I have some monster rounds that I'm not expecting it to be able to split. They are around 3 feet across. I'll probably have to saw them in half but if it splits them whole, I'll really be impressed. Here's the model I bought. So far it's working great:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Champion-Power-Equipment-27-Ton-224-cc-Log-Splitter-100424/302367049
Posted By: BillyTraps

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 06:10 PM

Congrats !
Posted By: Wright Brothers

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 06:41 PM

Can I borrow?


Kidding, I would put a lock on it.
I have the older 27 from cheapo.
I grease and paint the mast with used oil often.
Hydro drinker but I figure its old enough.
It'll still work ya but unlike the maul and wedges.
I keep an ax handy for the pin and white oak stickers.
pvc pipe for rollers for the huge rounds, it'll split em.

My stove is ripping pretty good right now.
Posted By: Bruce T

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 06:42 PM

Congrats
Posted By: mississippiposse

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 06:46 PM

Nice setup
Posted By: GREENCOUNTYPETE

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 06:58 PM

congrats , get a spare lovejoy rubber spider (assuming your uses one) and inspect yours before starting if you can easily see it and if you notice it is missing rubber replace the rubber spiders are cheap , replacing both halves adds up.

27 ton will split most anything you could get in the splitter


on the big stuff I have had to 1/4 it with the chain saw to be able to move it to the splitter
Posted By: Scuba1

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 07:00 PM

I am not jealous at all really. not one little bit crazy
Posted By: harrison72

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 07:28 PM

Good choice.
Everyone that splits by hand will say "oh, you took all the work out of it". WRONG! Splitters are 100% better than a maul or wedge/sledgehammer. However, there is still plenty of work in splitting wood.
Posted By: newhouse114

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 07:35 PM

Anybody that has split hemlock knows it doesn’t! My splitter makes short work of it, 36 inch rounds.
Posted By: Finster

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 08:02 PM

Here's a couple pics. I still haven't made it to the big stuff yet. Probably tomorrow.
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Posted By: AntiGov

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 08:08 PM

Wait , whaaaat ?

You mean you didn't build it yourself , like everything else?
Posted By: pcr2

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 08:09 PM

its dirty. whistle
Posted By: Finster

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by AntiGov
Wait , whaaaat ?

You mean you didn't build it yourself , like everything else?

I did. My last name is Champion! grin
Posted By: Finster

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by pcr2
its dirty. whistle

I'll give it a wash and wax when I'm done. wink
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 09:32 PM

I have an old red and black 20ton? Maybe Troy built? At any rate it goes right through big stuff (spruce/birch), well the biggest yet was 30” across. I section them like a piece of pie.
I’m sure the champ will do fine.
Posted By: jctunnelrat

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/08/20 09:49 PM

I have an old Troy-Built 27 ton. Horizontal and vertical splitter. Only thing I had to replace was the hydraulic valve after 15-16 years of service. Looks similar to yours Finster. Couldn't be happier with it's performance.

Now go make some kids to operate it for you. smile
Posted By: Drifter

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 01:02 AM

Get yourself a chunk of old hard plastic bedliner. Stand it up and makes life a lot easier for moving those rounds. Neighbor and I split a 150 year old oak up doing that. We would cut as deep as our bar let us then split off the chunk. We heated all winter off that and had some to spare. We only got the part that was too big for the owners buddy to handle.
Posted By: HobbieTrapper

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by Finster
I'm just about to get into the big stuff I have some monster rounds that I'm not expecting it to be able to split. They are around 3 feet across. I'll probably have to saw them in half......


I’m in the process of removing wood from one place and taking it to another in need. Some big stuff that requires some resizing to load.

I’m axing it down by working around the outside vs quartering it down. Is this causing any adverse effect on how it will burn?
Posted By: Finster

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 10:46 AM

Not that I have ever seen. That's how I do big logs when camping and all I have is an axe. Burns the same.
Posted By: HobbieTrapper

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by Finster
Not that I have ever seen. That's how I do big logs when camping and all I have is an axe. Burns the same.


Thanks.
Posted By: Wright Brothers

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 11:12 AM

Hobbie IME The big stuff dries faster when slabbed that way, really notice it with cherry.

I stand the splitter up and sit to operate.
Hence the pvc comment for rolling and sliding the bigs.
Experienced at sitting on a drywall bucket lol.

Friend does his horizontal with a roller conveyor from tail gate to splitter, pretty slick.
25 degrees this AM, what apple blossoms?
Posted By: pcr2

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 11:18 AM

and peach,pear,plum and sweet cherries here.
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 11:23 AM

Looks nice!!!
Posted By: pcr2

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 11:25 AM

i have a red and a white oak here about 3 ft across each ya can come practice on if ya want.
Posted By: Finster

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by pcr2
i have a red and a white oak here about 3 ft across each ya can come practice on if ya want.

Mail it to me.
Posted By: backroadsarcher

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 12:07 PM

Nice! Mine still has a wood handle. grin
Posted By: 080808

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 12:11 PM

Mail or hydraulic splitter. Try splitting Northern New York dead elm. End of story.
Posted By: hippie

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 12:21 PM

Nice one Finn.

Here's pics of my homemade one. I don't know the tonnage other than you can lay a log in sideways and it'll pinch it off without slowing down. Lol

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Farmall low boy engine.
Posted By: Bruce T

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 12:23 PM

Very nice.
Posted By: Finster

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by hippie
Nice one Finn.

Here's pics of my homemade one. I don't know the tonnage other than you can lay a log in sideways and it'll pinch it off without slowing down. Lol

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Farmall low boy engine.

Good grief. Looks like that would spit a car in two. crazy
Posted By: hippie

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 12:30 PM

Go big or go home...Lol

Amazingly it uses very little fuel. It just sits there and idles the whole time. And I like the purr of it.
Posted By: snowy

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 12:38 PM

Very nice Unit! I'm still doing it the old fashion way, by hand. Lol
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Posted By: dkrug

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 12:43 PM

That will get the job done. Local scrap yard sold one last year homemade like that.
They used a 1/2 ton chevy pickup for power & a beam about twice the size of yours.
Like Finster said, it would cut a car into.
They used it to crush rims, so they could get the tires off.
Posted By: Wright Brothers

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 01:02 PM

Hippie wins the dollar per tonnage category.
He'll go small block if that one lays down lol.

I have a 54 cub and thought that familiar.
Gonna come snitch that carb.
Posted By: Finster

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by hippie
Go big or go home...Lol

Amazingly it uses very little fuel. It just sits there and idles the whole time. And I like the purr of it.

Oh yea, well mines more shiny! grin
Posted By: HobbieTrapper

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by hippie
Nice one Finn.

Here's pics of my homemade one. I don't know the tonnage other than you can lay a log in sideways and it'll pinch it off without slowing down. Lol

[Linked Image]

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Farmall low boy engine.


Did you build 2? There is one in one of the sheds on the property we purchased. Looks similar but I think the motor is a bit smaller. lol
Posted By: pcr2

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 01:08 PM

i have a buddy down the valley that built a splitter for fence posts on his big excavator.after showing me how cool it worked,i asked why he didn't just saw them on the mill 15 ft away???he said i was no fun. grin
Posted By: jctunnelrat

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by hippie
Nice one Finn.

Here's pics of my homemade one. I don't know the tonnage other than you can lay a log in sideways and it'll pinch it off without slowing down. Lol

[Linked Image]

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[Linked Image]

Farmall low boy engine.

Jesus Christ! (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) is that? It looks like it could cut a house in half. Does it run on diesel or nitro methane?
Posted By: hippie

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by Wright Brothers
Hippie wins the dollar per tonnage category.
He'll go small block if that one lays down lol.

I have a 54 cub and thought that familiar.
Gonna come snitch that carb.



I had trouble with this one until I took it apart and soaked it in cleaner. Runs like a top now!
Posted By: hippie

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by Finster
Originally Posted by hippie
Go big or go home...Lol

Amazingly it uses very little fuel. It just sits there and idles the whole time. And I like the purr of it.

Oh yea, well mines more shiny! grin


Yep, oh got that covered.

I've used one like your a couple times, a buddy has one. It works nice and I'd buy one of I needed a splitter.
Posted By: Finster

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by snowy
Very nice Unit! I'm still doing it the old fashion way, by hand. Lol
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Nice straight grain dry wood like that is a pleasure to split with an axe.
Posted By: MySide 🦝

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 06:17 PM

Looks like a pretty serious wood splitter compared to our 4 ton! Lookin' good! You should be able to get some serious wood done with that bad boy!
Posted By: MySide 🦝

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by Finster
Originally Posted by snowy
Very nice Unit! I'm still doing it the old fashion way, by hand. Lol
[Linked Image]

Nice straight grain dry wood like that is a pleasure to split with an axe.

Oh yeah, I know how that feels, when you get a straight grain, and its dry! Ohhhh that's heavenly
Posted By: Ridge Runner1960

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 06:48 PM

couple things to watch, keep an eye on the wheel bearings if you tow it much, do not lay 1/2 rounds on the tank resting on the motor, mine busted the tank from the guy helping me laying 1/2 rounds on the motor. but mine has been rebuilt 3 times, everything has been replaced at least 0nce except the engine and the beam.
RR
Posted By: Finster

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by Ridge Runner1960
couple things to watch, keep an eye on the wheel bearings if you tow it much, do not lay 1/2 rounds on the tank resting on the motor, mine busted the tank from the guy helping me laying 1/2 rounds on the motor. but mine has been rebuilt 3 times, everything has been replaced at least 0nce except the engine and the beam.
RR

You have the same model?
Posted By: Ridge Runner1960

Re: Well, I got my log splitter - 05/09/20 08:09 PM

same splitter except mine was marketed as husky and its 35 ton, when I bought it, had it 10 years, use it commercially
RR
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