Ok so I tried making one of those slamming splitter things out of one of these welded to the end of an old truck axle and using a T-post driver but it doesn't work for shit. I'm a pretty big guy so I don't think power is the problem. Ideas?
Try a sledgehammer
>>2795305It's pretty high, not sure how much leverage I could get. Now that I'm actually looking for the things I'm thinking of apparently they don't even make them anymore so I guess they were shit.I think I'll cut it off and try to make one of the ones that you mount to a stump
>>2795307just get a splitting maul, if that's a no-go for whatever reason you step up to a hydraulic press splitting rig on a little atv trailer, and then you get to buy a quad to drag it around
>>2795302Look up black powder log spiltters. Do weld some log chain to it if you make one since the hunk of chain stops them from flying away.
>>2795302there is a solution to every problem op, and that solution is explosivesif this doesnt work, tannerite will
>>2795302You have to use multiple of those at the same time and then hit each one little by little, this isnt even a force game you win by attrition
>>2795302Your problem is, splitters arent magic. Sometimes you need more than 1 to get the job done, and how you determine that will depend on the wood, grain, knots, size, ect. Look for cracks in the wood to see where its already structurally weak, then put a line of splitters from one crack to the next in a line if its a large piece of wood or a hardwood. When you see splitters splitting big logs with just 1, thats usually because its not very knotty or a softwood. In most splitter situations where a regular axe wont do, you're gonna need more that one. Think of hitting a knot like hitting a shield. It doesnt matter how strong you are, you are hitting something that is deflecting the majority of power. But when you use a splitter, you force the issue by creating a weakness in the shield. Each hit, slowly works its way through the shield until it fails. However, if its a really big shield, you're gonna need multiple splitters to form the full break from one end of the log to the next. Becareful with splitters, its easy to get them stuck if you try to force them to go the wrong way. Technically you can break wood from any angle if enough preassure is applied, and thats exaclty what a hydraulic press does with its 10,000 pounds of pressure. But with just raw muscle, thats a difficult job to do if you dont pay attention to your splitter placement.
>>2795307Splitting wedges don't exist?
>>2795302Git gud.
Build a hydraulic log splitter and make your life slightly easier.
>>2796856No I mean the tool I was thinking of apparently isn't being made anymore. They must have sucked. It's a splitting wedge on the end of a piece of round stock with a big ass slide hammer attached
>>2796877it sounds like a lot more work, physically moving the heavy part every inch it needs to move. Pic related is the best tool, >>2796860 is a pampered girly man chopping cute little logs into cute little sticks, those hinged bits don't do anything good to wet wood, and any energy spent pulling a stuck axe head out of a log is wasted energy. Also they can make the axe head do unpredictable things in the vicinity of your legs and ankles.With a normal splitting maul gravity is doing most of the work, you help it a little on the backswing and then help it drop into the work, let the head rest on the splitting block while you stack another round to be split, then let the head swing off the block and help it back into the backswing. Viewed from the side, the axe head is making an oval, not a parentheses.
this is just an axe, but you can see how efficient the motion is
>>2795302>I'm a pretty big guyfor you
>>2797023kek
>>2796184>loaded and poundedErm, why not pounded and THEN loaded? I'd prefer not being hoisted by my own sledgehammer.
>>2796877its literally called a slide hammer splitter and they sell them on amazon.
>>2795302Put a bigger chamfer on the edges and grind a fuller down the center of each side.There's a lot of friction in driving a wedge into wood, cutting down the surface area will cut the amount of friction fighting against you.
>>2796849Based. I spent a summer splitting firewood with my uncle 8-10 cords a week. We used a PTO driven 2 pole splitter and rarely had any problems if you always planned your next move ahead in advance. Theres certain tricks like splitting knots or branch points from the bottom or just generally knowing what will happen when you put pressure on a given obstacle. Anyone who’s ever split wood by hand is very familiar with how it all works because you can’t just beat the shit out of wood without a plan for very long
>>2798020Nah I saw those. The one I'm thinking of has a slide on it with two handles that stick out just like a post driver. That's what gave me the idea
