Me too sam. Hard to believe how dangerous some of them are.

The production speed is at least 5 times faster than anything else presented here.

Hi Steve, we started burning wood to heat our house about 45 years ago like you using a chainsaw and a felling axe then a splitting maul, rarely a wedge and a sledge hammer. About 20 years ago I started working as a volunteer with our local council, I could then choose what wood we got, wood without knots and the best for burning. 4 years ago we invested in a quality log splitter, this machine has been a boon for us. I'm 78, not sure how much longer we will be able to make our own fire wood, bought in stuff is usually rubbish in our experience. Is that a kelpie at 2:56?? We had a kelpie rescue dog along with 7 other rescue dogs over the years, you cannot beat a kelpie. Of course I cannot be sure as we've had 9 different rescues nearly all different breeds except two German shepherds, only one kelpie, fantastic dog!!

@@johnwoody9505 yes, i rarely had to use the wedge and hammer unless it was some onery piece of wood. i would get a lot of maple, oak and ash from where i worked and when i did buy a grapple load i would request no junk and i would get some nice wood that was easy to work with. i gave away all my stoves and tools and now we just burn oil$$$.

what would you use those for?

“Stumpy”.

Professionals

There skilled is why

It's all firewood. A gas heater would free up a lot more labor.

@@iguanapete3809at $2:50 a kilogram for gass I think I’ll stick to free firewood .

free up some fingers too

Yep, I was thinking the exact same thing

Dry woods are very easy for hydrolic wood splitters..

@@trelisman1673 I have a 20 ton hydraulic wood splitter with a single blade. It has a lot of trouble splitting dry York Gum and sometimes White Gum .

Try misquite wood 😊

You still have to use your brain and split with the pre-existing cracks and grain. But they're fine if you cut longer than 40cm

Who cares. He knows what he’s doing. Too many snowflakes about already.

Yeh.tell that to the chap with a lmb or two missing. The very fact that fewer limbs are lost shows risk assessments work. Who charges headlong into darkness without lights, just fools.

@@davidturner8689 I agree that safety has to be a priority. I have seen a lot of things happen in during my relatively young 34 years here on Earth. I was running a conventional log splitter in the vertical position with my girl friend operating it recently. I was knelt down and I went to get up and slipped into the log splitter. I put my arm up to save myself and it was between the metal beams that knock the wood off and the wedge was on the way back. So if the wedge was closer, I could have gotten my arm stuck in it and I do not even want to guess what it would have done to my forearm. Part of it was awareness as well. I think safety is often overdone to demonstrate compliance but it does have a very important role with machinery.

@@donalfinn4205 You can Pay their lifetime of disability.

The one at 14:02 also gets my vote, never comes close enough to the anvil to pinch anything and slow moving enough to stop if something goes wrong. Reminds me of old locomotive wheels and driving rods.

You get warm many times that way !! 🔥

@@urbanbengtsson2500 Yes, that does happen and it’s not important when you’re young. It does dawn on people once they mature. In my estimation based on life experience, people are under the impression that because they use wood for a heat source in many cases but not all, that it’s inexpensive and they are saving money . Even if you have a plot of land where you can harvest trees, nothing is free. Studies have been done to see if the effort and time spent in a different direction earning money would be better than everything involved with assuring yourself do you have enough wood for the winter. I’m quite aware of the fact that some people use it as supplemental heat or for a fireplace. That of course is a whole different set of circumstances and is not a money saver but probably enjoyable.

That’s what I see and my back says he’ll no so I would solve that problem in a heartbeat 😊

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Don't worry. They have another hand in store🤣

Thank you very much for sharing your opinion. Those are valuable feedback for me to improve.

You know this is a video about dangerous wood splitting machines? Pointing out how dangerous they are is a little redundant.

The same with a chop saw. Gotta pay attention aways. I knew a guy that chopped his thumb off after using the saw for 21years

@@eprn1n2 Every machine is dangerous, but if you pay attention to what I wrote, I said « Continuous splitting machine» is criminal. Though, it's not redundant, don't you agree ?

​@@sevieballesteros8301one would have to be pretty stupid if one can't find a way to do both 😂

​@@c.danjou.1696wrong. Several of the machines with continuous rams don't even push to the wedge. Lots of guys lose fingers after they press a lever each time and it pushes to the wedge... And they have a finger in the way. Those machines are safer. Just don't wear baggy clothes.

You'll have to make it. No one is going to sell you a "Gimp Maker" like that.

I agree. Spend 10K+ on a very efficient firewood cutter and dump the logs on the ground.

Maybe to make particle board.