PowerKing PK0342 (2018) 42-Ton Kinetic Log Splitter with ABS - DEMO
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- Here is a Demo and Testing video for the PowerKing PK0342 42-Ton Kinetic Log Splitter with our patent pending Auto Braking System (ABS)
The ABS is a braking system works to stop and reset the ram when it encounters too much resistance. This type of resistance may come from something like a knotted piece of wood. Once it hits this type of resistance it will automatically retract and reset to be engaged again. Taking off the extra stress on racking system components will prolong the life and effectiveness of the machine.
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Saw one of these for sale locally and came here for info. After seeing it in action I think my hydraulic splitter is better, less chasing the wood around, I can hold two half rounds together and have a piece split into quarters etc.
Every commenter on every log splitting video: "That wood is dried up with no knots and already falling appart, you should try to split some granite reinforced high carbon steel logs from my forest. Only a military grade depleted uranium kinetic impactor can go through these or a good old fashioned axe (as long as you're manly enough) your splitter is shit"
I was thinking the same thing. I could bust that up in 1/4 the time with my hatchet. Those logs are perfect, flawless, no knots, dry as a bone.
Oh gosh, I love that comment!!
Had me laughing, that was quite a good one :)
Its true though lol I would like to see how these do with green pine and some knots. I want to get one, but if it cant beat a hydro then its a no from me dog.
Haha
You could have used a butter knife to split that dried pine!
could I just bungee the small lever back so I can just use one hand?
I think the idea is to make sure both hands are out of the way before it engages.
That's what I was thinking
We have been using this unit for about a year. It out produces our hydraulic unit about three to one 80% of the time. The other 20% it is just about as fast. We are splitting green pecan of all sizes and conditions and we can't be more pleased. As far as straight grained oak: holy S!#^t this thing is fast(6 to 1). It will keep three people extremely busy all day long.
Jimmy, do you have the new PK0342 42-Ton or the 34 ton? Where did you purchase?
My son bought me the little five ton electric from harbor freight. The forced two handed operation puts the operator right at the exit of the ram. I was splitting a piece of green oak with a limb. The limb went clear past center in the round. The machine recoiled, the round spit back at me so fast it hit my shoulder making a minor laceration through my hoodie and t shirt. I was lucky. That night I ordered a metal foot control from Amazon now I can put my gloves hand on the side of the round. If on bounces off again, with my gloved hand on it, it will simply deflect away from me having used its energy against my hand. If you can’t keep your hand away from the crash point, you have no business with any log splitter, or saw, or power tool for that matter. Log splitters are inherently dangerous, no need to be forced to be over the log with your hands kept below the ram area. Puts your head in a vulnerable spot. I watched another person’s video of the HF 5 ton, I noted he was instinctively leaning as far away as possible too. My video is up catching the log hitting me live.
Try some green pine or green cottonwood lets see how that works out for you lol.
That thing is bad ass
Another great product made inefficient for safety reasons. A one handle operation would be better, that way you dont have to move around so much. The way to make it safer is not letting the ram go so close to the axe but make it stop a little over a hands width from it. This way if you have laid your hand on top of the log for support and some how forgot to lift it on contact you will not be hurt.
It's a bad idea to have your limbs any where near fast moving equipment like this. 2 handed operation is the only way to go here. Feel free to disable the safety features if you're dumb enough to do so for "more efficient" operation. Just remember you'll be less efficient after you're missing a couple fingers.
@@Kanglar This is more a "if you are aware of" situation. When you are out driving you are aware of what the gaspedal does, now if some idiot sits in his car slams the pedal to the bottom and doesnt let go its very likely he will get hurt. There is tons of equipment in all sorts of industry who is extremely dangerous in many cases its efficiency, cost or the simple fact none found a safer way to do it. What it comes down to in a case like this and many others is operator awareness and proper operator education. To make my point even a shovel can be dangerous if not used right.
@@Kanglar And i would like to add what if you have someone helping you maybe it should be a four handed operation?
Yeah looks like so pretty soft wood, try Oak from up here in Connecticut
Oak? Oak is rated as medium splitting difficulty. If you are having problems splitting oak then you should go with a more powerful splitter. Woods considered to be difficult to split include beech, dogwood, elm or black locust. We have dogwood growing on our property and I wish all of it a long life. Of course oak is rated by the forestry service as an excellent firewood. I use it in my Texas smoker to slow cook my pork butts for pulled pork.
@@wilhard45 I have a DR splitter K-10 which is a baby compared to the one in the video, runs on a 120vac electric motor. I've split oak, popular, pine, sweetgum, and now finishing up on over two cords of black cherry. You would be surprised what those will do, and mine is a very small splitter, I could imagine what a monster like the one in the video can do. By the way, all the wood mentioned above was/is green wood.
Shaggy bark hickory? Black walnut? How does it do??
That swinging hitch seems like a bit of a solution for a problem that didn't exist. Other than that seems like a heck of a machine.
I would end up tripping on it for sure. That may be why.
Do those safety goggles come with it as well. lol
And the shoes ?? I see used them in the shop. Slick.
I hate the two hand engage mechanism. First thing I would do is defeat that. I have the 34 ton model from about 1.5 years ago and it only has one hand engage. It splits everything. I keep mine attached to the truck otherwise the machine walks. The torque improvement is a good idea. I already busted my spline and it took quite a bit of time and $200 in parts to replace myself. I like the wheel on the front leg also. I also like the new location of the Kohler engine. The tires also appear much improved.
Please design a side table which attaches to the machine so you don't keep knocking everything off the working surface forcing you to keep bending over picking everything up to split again. Also consider a 4 way split attachment like many others have available.
Please offer me a decent trade in I would love to buy the new and improved version. I only split about 10 cord before I broke mine. The table is also cracking so that will need to be replaced soon also.
You will be happy you defeated the two hand engage mechanism as soon as you cut one of your hands off by eliminating an important safety feature.
@@avacadovich BS as I stated my older version does not contain the two hand safety capability by design. It is amazingly is amazingly safe to operate. I cannot even tell you how many cord we've split over the past three years.
@@avacadovichif you don’t know to keep your hand out of a crush point, you have no business around power equipment.
I was interested in the concept but I can already see that I can split faster and more efficiently with a vertical hydraulic log splitter.
How?
No you can’t lol😂
@@j.jacobson 1 - 1.5 cords in 45 min. Depending on species of wood.
@@pavelkolp There are many ways it saves time but for one you can sit down and rotate the log as you split which allows you to work more efficiently. You also don't have to spend any time picking up pieces that require more splitting. And if you really want to increase productivity one person manages the log while another operates the splitter just watch your fingers lol
Split some hedge from Illinois!
I have a Super Split right now but this thing looks like a beast. I like how you did the hitch and how the engine is set lowers so it wouldn’t be as tippy when you got to trailer it. Is it able to tow at highway speeds? Looks like a great splitter I love how everyone knocks on kinetic splitters I would bet good money if they ever used one they would be selling there hydraulic. Kinetics are so much faster and can split everything a hydraulic can I know I have one and heat my house and cabin with wood in northern Wisconsin. Thumbs up👍
I agree. We have a 28 ton rated hydraulic and a 42 ton kinetic. The hydraulic is set at vertical and its job is to halve or quarter rounds just too heavy for me to pick up. My son and I and one or two others share the cost of the semi truck load of rounds and then share the work of sawing and splitting. We normally get at least two cords each out of a $600 dollar truckload. Given the going price per cord is $300 (depending on time of year and if the wood is green) the cost for the splitters and my latest purchase for a new ATV tipping trailer have long since paid for itself. Not bad for a couple of long days on a single weekend. We could never do that with the 28 ton hydraulic. To do better we would need to move into a wood processing operation. Given we do this over a single weekend, I am not interested in spending six grand and more to step up if it just going to sit there 51 weeks out of the year.
Keep your super split. Dont buy this piece of crap
Did anyone notice that the bearing cap flew off the wheel? Then he stepped in front of it and side kicked it to the tire. For a free wood splitter I would have just shot another video segment.
What is the weight of the flywheels please?
About 60 lbs each.
Check out the location of the gas fill ...can't get at it to fill without taking it all apart????
Super split leaves a good 4 inch between the wedge....i hope the pinion gear lasts
Don’t like that you have to pull 2 levers
42 tons to split seasoned pine
I have only 10 ton kg kinetic splitter and what need by axe doing burn wood for year was 6 to 8 days and now all years burn wood in 8 hours. Friend made with hydraulic about same much burn wood in 2 and hald days.
And the hydraulic splitters roar full throttle to go slow. Hate them. This type just quietly loafs. Much better.
The fuck are you trying to say
What diameter are the pulleys?
I am Bangladeshi. Haw mani price in machine? Give by Bangladesh???
clearly an office guy.. ear and eye protection for no reason. and holding the handle to long so the gears will grind..
Ciao, da quanto è la cremagliera 4x4 cm?
Soft straight wood, a hatchet would be a lot faster and cheaper.
Looks like really dry pine he's chopping.
I just received my Powerking 42 ton Kinetic. It will not even split 6" dried Elm with no knots, tried multiple pieces with the same none splitting result. It will split white oak up to about 14" sometimes. Tried a 18" straight grain white oak log that was cut a year ago and would not split it. It also split black walnut up to about 12", any bigger it will not split it. All the wood I tried splitting was cut to length about a year ago. Definitly will not be a primary splitter for me for real logs, it will be good to re-split firewood pieces and smaller logs, but my go to machine will still be my hydraulic 34 ton splitter.
should have tried the super split out of Massachusetts. A bit costly but well worth it
Nice story but I question your honesty. If the splitter does not do the job why not return it? Seems foolish to spend a couple of grand on something and not seek a remedy. I can understand trouble with elm. It is rated difficult to split. OTOH, black walnut is rated as an easy split. That is the same rating as pine. If you own a 34 ton hydraulic splitter why bother with getting an expensive kinetic? Why not get an aftermarket 4-way wedge? Would save you a bunch of money and cut your splitting time in half.
@@wilhard45 I agree with you concerning his honesty. I have a 34 ton unit as well as a hydraulic. I run the kinetic 95% of the time because I am getting old and don’t have time to wait on my hydraulic splitter.
Is this as good as the original supersplit?
Absolutely not
These units seem nice but a hell of a lot noiseier than a hydraulic unit.
Price
Why did you use DEAD wood, which is brittle as peanut brittle? Why don't you put a stick of GREEN elm on that thing?
Green Red oak on my 34 ton power king.
Watch "Power King 34 Ton Kinetic log splitter." on TH-cam
th-cam.com/video/mUj8rBjmJ-4/w-d-xo.html
1000 hits thats like 2 cord of wood
Split some green digger pine or some California live oak just saying
Theses arent made for super tough stuff.theyre made for speed. So you dont spend 10 sec splitting the easy stuff. But they will surprise you too on what they can handle
I have a differant brand 34t kinetic log splitter and here in Australia we have the hardest woods in the world,everything except pine is hard wood,and my splitter eats up ironbark,ghost gum,etc.
Pretty effortless? You're out of breath!
Log splitting in Las Vegas lol. Hmm. I know it gets cold at night. But. Who heats their home for 6 hours of cold temperatures. Lol. Strange location for this product is all I'm saying
To low to the ground. Very hard on a tall person.
YOu make that concession to be able to get big rounds on it. If it was an issue to you, you could dig out a spot to stand without a problem, but you'd regret it being high as soon as you had to clean and press a few big rounds up onto it.
@@daw162 yeah I’m 6’5” and I concur with your stay
What's he hiding with his foot at around 430 like something fall off the machine then slide it towards the tire with his foot he looks right at it on the ground before he does it lmao it was the wheel hub cover at 0330. Not impressive espeicaly the fact your trying to cover it up. Being deceitful does not convince people to buy your product. I'll call this one a piece of shit don't waste your money people shop eles were. Only trust multiple customer reviews not a video like this.
This is the owner of the company. He obviously is not up to snuff using his product.
Good eye!!!!!
You need to have someone demo this that actually knows what he is doing so your product looks attractive...You are a cluts at best even well intentioned you should stay away from that machine! Do you have a more impressive splitting video using this machine I can see? I think you could have split those dry brittle rounds with a butter knife and a hammer! This was not worth watching!
42 ton. Don’t think so. I know my 28 ton hydraulic would split that log that was in side ways
Yeah my 28 ton is also way less noise too.
Greg rupar - Have you actually tried to do that? Don't forget they selected the wood for a specific test. They were testing the flywheel ABS system and would have chosen something that would be very resistant to splitting. Lots and lots of TH-cam videos demonstrating the speed of the kinetic splitter. I own both a 28 ton hydraulic and 42 ton kinetic. We do 95% of our splitting with the kinetic because it is just so much faster. When we have extra hands my son loads the wood onto the table, I whack the two handles and before the ram is fully retracted he has cleared the table into the cart and placed more wood on the table. I am doing a split every two seconds. The only way a hydraulic would produce more wood is to spend a lot of money for a commercial splitter that produces four or more pieces of firewood per pass. Great for a commercial operation but we just do firewood for family and a few friends. Our gear sits in the shed 50 or 51 weeks out of the year.
@@wilhard45 So the kinetic is honestly better? Im curious because me and my pops split about 14 cords per every 2-3 years and its painstaking work with our 25ton hydro lol We split some pretty tough stuff though so I would need it to perform!
@@RUZTY1311 -- It is for us. We do pretty much the same thing. We get four to six truck loads each year and it takes two to three week-ends with the kinetic. Some mixed and some eucalyptus. My kids, adult grand kids get most of the wood along with a couple neighbors. Everyone chips in money and/or labor. Cords of mixed sell for $250 to $300 from firewood dealers and our cost is anywhere from $100 to $150. If we have a few leftover cords we sell them for $200 ( or donate to some less fortunate families). Unless we stepped up to a $10,000 hydraulic processor no way a hydraulic would keep up. I am not a professional firewood processor and so this is just my opinion on what has worked for us.
Don't like the fact that you have two handles for every damn split. That is a dealbreaker for me. Bye.
crazy.. not good..!!
1:45 Video actually starts. Before that complete waste of time. Pretty dry pine. Maybe that rare tree, the Power Pine, of Balsam Wood? Judging by how easy he picked it up in his loafers and pleated jeans...LOL.... Log was maybe seasoned a few years in a drying room. This unit retails for close to $2800.00. YES $2800.00. LMAO OH NO 2:49 got his pantalones dirty on the knees. LOL those "logs" weight about 5lbs. Move along NOTHING to see here.
So don't buy it.
Wilhard must be buddy's of old Mr. Khulmann. LMAO. Thank god wilhard is here to help us in our purchase decisions. FYI They raised the price to an even $3000.00 now. But you get a free supply of Tide Laundry Detergent NEW Stain Stick.
@@FlushtheSystem - I get it. You can't afford it. As I said, then don't buy it.
Wow got to use both hands. What a waste. One of the worst built Kenetic splitters i habe seen. Poor Design