A Way To Make Splitting Firewood Easier When Working Alone
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- OWB Merch, Employee of the Month Tees here!!!
sweetvintagete...
Here my affiliate link for Titan Attachments.
titanattachmen...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Woodhounds podcast is a HUGE hit! You can find it on all you popular podcast platforms and also by visiting our website!
www.thewoodhou...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the gear I use in my videos here:
www.amazon.com...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BUNDLED FIREWOOD BUSINESS SUPPLIES!
STRETCH WRAP-- click here for a site-wide a 10% off coupon. (affiliate link)
I have found that this works best....12" 90 gauge, Cast stretch wrap
www.shareasale...
LABELS -- visit this website for an exclusive offer to OWB subscribers! (affiliate link)
melissanagydesi...
WRAPPING MACHINE--The Go-Fast Mfg wrapper is The BEST! I give my highest recommendation on this machine. Please ask for Austin with all your inquiries
gofastmfg.com/...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please support our channel sponsors!
Eastonmade Wood Splitters
www.eastonmade...
Japa Firewood Processors
japa.fi/en/
Metsa Machines
www.metsamachi...
Titan Attachments
titanattachmen...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
==The OWB Business Development Center==
Website Help? Here is where you want to go! An exclusive offer to OWB Subscribers.
digitalredzone...
LABELS -- visit this website for an exclusive offer to OWB subscribers! (affiliate link)
pekodesigns.com...
![[TH] 2024 PMSL SEA W2D5 | Fall | พลาดวันนี้ จะต้องเสียใจ](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/A5-Cuo12p6A/mqdefault.jpg)
I'm following your example of excellence and getting some customers. I'm delivering my first full cord on Monday at my price with added services. Plus a face cord the next day. I'm in a target rich environment. I'm probably 10 years your senior but loving it.
The Axis slicer makes the most consistent splits on the market... the bottleneck on that whole set up is the human feeding it. .. No matter who the human is, it will slice and dice as fast as you can feed remove stack and repeat... Impressive as heck!
I agree. It does a great job when "I" feel like doing it LOL
Good Morning Joe, The tractor is earning its keep. 68 degrees here( in Florida)😂🪵👍🏼🇺🇸
Oh wow! What part of FLA are you in? If you are in Orlando you should stop and visit my friend Tom at his wood recycling center. Great person!
We are visiting our daughter in Pensacola this week, Safe wood working to ya🪵👍🏼🇺🇸
Have a great day joe!!! Winter is coming quick
Not today at least LOL 50 degrees and I loaded my truck in shorts!
Aha, another time/work saving solution! Elaine from Canada here, great camera work, and she wasn’t slingin’ wood so must’ve been cold all over ! Great job done Joe, you’re making a dent in that pile of rounds. Love watching the Axis. Stay well and stay warm, cheers Joe.
Thanks Elaine!!!👍
Great idea, Joe. Those casket pallets have proven to be very useful. 👍
They have been awesome. Thanks to my buddy Dale from the firewood hut!
Just like you Joe I'm always looking for ways to be more efficient.
Joe good to see your always thinking 😊. Have a great day buddy. Remember STICK on the ice 🧊. Saw in the wood and rubber on the road .
Hi Joe - it's Big Rodders in Ireland. You're the human manifestation of those two old sayings - 1. KISS, Keep it Simple Stupid and 2. Work smarter not harder. I do however have to chide you for not keeping on top of your yard tidying chores so no Brownie Points for you this week on that score! I use my back pack blower to tidy up after every session, which just adds 2 minutes to my day as crud never has the chance to accumulate.
haha no kidding when I was done filming this I put the bucket on the tractor and cleaned up this area LOL
Sure love watching the axis!
Good morning Woodhound Joe. Beautiful Wood Rounds. Looks like Maple Rounds my Friend. Yes being Your Only One Splitting the Wood you come up with Different ways to do things. My self 1day I Cut, the next day I begin to Split. Keep up you Fantastic work, Videos, and of all STAY SAFE BUDDY. Now go Warm up Sir, you deserve it. Ron from the Woodyard in Duanesburg NY.
I worked in a factory when I was young. The pay was hourly wage. They hired an "efficiency expert" who watched each work station and suggested different ways to work quicker.
I moved on to a factory that paid piecework incentive. No need for an efficiency expert there. Any way a person could cut time off of their cycle time would increase yield and would increase their pay.
That's what I found I learned best and applied to my own work and my own workstations whether it be firewood, beekeeping, gardening or maple syrup production. We are our best efficiency experts.
Right on ron!
great video and great job joe
Glad you enjoyed it mr Livingstone!
Awesomely Awesome Awesomeness 😅 what a way to think. Keep on using that noodle up there.👍👍👍👍🤠
Thanks! Will do lance
Cool Joe. Try pushing the pallet forward just enough to set down the next pallet. Fill two pallets, will have the valley between full, and push them both back at the same time. Hope you have been getting some logs in.
Haha I figured that out after I push this one all the way to the back LOL
Yeah, work smart, not hard! 🙂
Pallets don't like being shoved around loaded though, so it'll be interesting to see how many uses you get out of them doing this.
Some thoughts on further streamlining:
If you place the pallets in their final position, can you position the splitter just alongside them, so that you only have to make a couple of steps to place the firewood? That'd remove the wear and tear of shoving them around loaded, and you'd be able to complete the stack from a single position.
I'm pretty sure you have a bucket for the tractor loader?
If the stack-of-rounds was made (in the future) on a hard/concrete surface with a solid wall behind them to push against, you could scoop them up in the tractor bucket and then bring them to the splitter.
Leave the log-lifter down out of the way on the splitter, and place the tractor bucket so that the rounds easily slide out straight onto the splitting table.
We're slowly bringing you around to the minimal-handling school of firewood! 🙂
all sounds like great approaches Ivor. Thanks for keeping me thinking buddy
Very efficient splitter for sure . Nice work 👍
Thanks buddy
That skid train idea is awesome! Keep innovating Joe!
I am the brains of this operation Mike. Also known as the weak link around here
I learn a lot by watching your videos, OWB. That looks like a great setup. Carrying those armloads will ruin your back eventually, but a belt might help. Thanks! 😀
Pushing the pallet back with the tractor makes a whole lot of sense but we need to work on a plan to locate the splitter so there is even less walking - can your tractor pick up the pallet from the side so you can move it closer to the machine? Can your tractor pick up the splitter with the pallet forks? It seems to me you have got to find a more efficient way of moving the splitter closer to the pallet.
If I were buying an Easton splitter I would want one without the wheels and a pallet/skid configuration for moving it with the FEL or a quick attach 3 point -I might even want a skid-steer quick attach plate. My Hakki splitter has a 3 point hook up.
I like where it is now but I am always looking for ways to improve. This set up is good for loading the trailer with the conveyor
Yup that’s a great idea work smarter not harder, and I can say one of these days Joe one of these days I will be out for a weekend to help out 😎.
thanks frank. Bring your gloves buddy!
@@ohiowoodburner always carry gloves
Morning Joe and friends. You found a nice time saver.
You got that right roger!
Glad to see your making progress on the pile. We will have to do another cutting session soon if you keep going.
sounds like a plan friend!
On that lean edge, when you're pushing the paladin, don't forget to clean the leaves out. Then you're can push it tight up against the cement blocks and fill in that valley if you'd like
Good idea kent. Thanks buddy
Hey, Joe. To help with backfilling your valleys use an IBC tote. Cut the complete side out of it and leave only the top rail to keep it from spreading. Park it on your loader forks next to the splitter with the bottom about knee high. Load it up and move it to the valley and unload it from about knee high. Maximize every bit of motion. Your back will thank you in the morning. It might also come in handy for moving other things around your woodyard... like loading up a face cord quickly for consecutive customers or like during your annual open house.
That could work. Honestly this wood is gone before I ever need to utilize that much space.
@@ohiowoodburner not so much as saving space as to haul more than an armful or bucketful at a time.
Damn I want one of those machines!
It is a great splitter Travis. !!
I wear the 300s in the summer, and the 451s in the winter and colder months. they are the best firewood gloves I have found. I have tried them all.
Love the Showa Atlas. Great glove
I see Joe you were wearing the atlas 300 gloves, you should consider the 451s they are heavier and will keep your hands warmer. they also have the same superior gripping power as the 300s.
I have my own special winter gloves I just didn't have them this day. I will show them in a future vid
Looks like a great solution for production with the Axis. Enjoy The Journey - Cheers
Thanks, will do bob!
Feeling great today GO BLUE!!! Great video Joe.
You guys are in a great spot. Good luck in the games!
Good Morning Joe: Great Video 👍. It was the bolt that holds the bar on the Japa that was the issue. I replaced them and fixed. Thanks for that information. I’m thinking about Wolfe Ridges new vertical splitter.
I don't think you can go wrong with either but of course I'm partial to the Axis lol
That’s a great splitter I just always think of how many cords of wood you would have to sell to pay for it
If it’s a business, finance it. Yes it’s great to pay cash but that means you have to outlay the entire amount up front. If it’s financed you retain the cash. The payment is low on a piece of equipment in this price range. You should be able to sell enough firewood to more than make the payments for the year plus have left over funds to put in your pocket. But I agree, you have to split a lot to pay for it especially up front.
I like it a lot. And that’s my dream splitter. 👍
It is a great splitter rocky!
It's interesting, the weird colors and patterns that develop in soft Maple, after it's been cut for a while. I was splitting, today as well.
My maple was just a hair too far gone, VERY spalted, and a touch punky, but it's just for starter pieces and campfires, so it's fine. It was a smaller limb, and flat on the ground, so had soaked up a lot of water. It was in my way, so it got cut, and solid enough to get tossed in my truck. The bigger limbs and trunks are in better shape.
What I was actually after, was the last piece of reasonable sized Ash. Crooked, and knotty as heck- but it split fine. (I only needed my saw once to cut through a knot!) Nice big chunks, for long heat and coals. All that's left is the 3 hugest logs- easily 25-30" diameter, and 2 of em have crotches at one end. Those will be work, and I'll have to get creative to buck them with an 18" bar, but it's mostly nice clean strait wood. I prefer Ash as my mainstay wood, as it's good for every purpose. This log was Green Ash, so it'll smell extra good when it's burned.
My way of making the job a bit easier, is to use my battery saw to cut off knotty ends, chunk up uglies, or slab/ make cookies out of pieces that insist on being difficult. No sense beating the crap out of myself, when I have a chainsaw handy, lol. I'll also use it to cut through those annoying knots that hold otherwise split pieces together. I cut up mostly tree service wood, so there's always plenty of knots, crotches, crooked cuts, odd sized pieces, etc. Giving me a plentiful supply of cookies and chunks.
Sounds like you keep busy. I avoid tree service wood just because of that but there is a lot of wood if you are willing to work for it!
@@ohiowoodburner the spot they dump it all is right in my neighborhood, so its free AND convenient. Hunks n chunks work perfectly in my grill, too so win/win.
Hi Joe
Hi eric!
Good idea, Joe. 😁👍
Right on dan!
Great idea
Thank you Dave!
Hey 👋 Joe
Hey there!
Hi Joe! Great video. I like seeing the Axis work. Have a great day!
Thanks for watching bud
An axis splitter is like the Allen Family Firewood’s splitter, only slower. Lol
Haha.
Joe, does that wedged have a knife edge on it ? I think ha you would find i worth while to do so
It is not a knife edge. It kinda has a flat edge to it
I get alot of ha ha moments going to build a 3 sided box for my forks so when im done blocking rounds i load them on it and bring to supersplit using bucket now but would like to load more at a time
That is a great approach. Having to lift the rounds up to my SS is what got me looking at the Axis
have you considered using a 4 or 6 way wedge on that machine?
I have learned from using my super splitter that that fast cycle-single knife is the best way to go. Multiple knives get complicated trying to make nice firewood
Awesome. I’m looking forward to my next visit at your woodyard. Progress every day! 🦾
Bring your gloves!!!
Almost looks like you did them with the perfect split.
Pretty much. Both make nice firewood
Did you get a chance to run the new vertical from wolf ridge? I like everything about it except the knife is too wide compared to the axis.
Never did run it. I was up close but didn't operate
Whats the fuel comparison between the axis and the supersplit
SS is much less. Smaller engine and works on much lower rpm
Try taking a grinder to the table the shiny area and ruff it up my help wood sliding kicking out when splitting the wood.
honestly it isn't that big of a deal. I prob get one tricky log a month. Once it happens to you it becomes easy to mitigate
Wound only hinder the sliding that you need
Know someone w a portable welder? Have them put a design or bunch of little splatters where the pieces sit to reduce slippage. And help protect the gut and package 😅
honestly it isn't that big of a deal. I prob get one tricky log a month. Once it happens to you it becomes easy to mitigate
Not necessary
You need that piece of metal like Adam has on his so the wood don't kick out and hit u in stomach!
Honestly it happenes once and that is the last time.
Joe, at 10'57 you have a fairly large hole in your cord of wood. May collapse? Probably wouldn't hurt anything or fall apart?
It probably filled in on its own. SOmetimes gaps like that are good for air circulation. Thanks Holly!
This guy used to live next-door to me
Are you the boy that painted my cat?!?
Brute force is testing a vertical splitter waiting to see it kinco makes sme rubber insulated glove
I have an excellent winter glove but I didn't have them with me this day.
@@ohiowoodburner please share
Polish Wood Splitting Moments........?
Poland Ohio?
? I am in Trumbull Co but I am in Poland a lot
Joe, that sure is a better idea than the way you were doing it, But I have a thought! I think if you let the wood dump into a IBC tote(or make something a little bigger to handle more wood that you could step right in to retrieve the farther back wood) on your tractor loader, then when full pull the tractor forward to your already in place pallet, then stack on the the already placed pallet, add another as needed, with minimum movement would save you all them trips, 10 round trip steps, each trip, from the splitter to the pallet with a arm full of wood and back. Might not be much different in time, but I bet it would be alot less work on your body for the hours you do this. Try it!
This is hard for me to explain but I get bored running the splitter. Walking away from it to stack the wood I just split helps me stay focused and feel like splitting more than I normally would. It's like a way to move diff muscles and minimizes fatigue
Grab a hold of the muffler to warm fingers and gloves.
haha. Done that before Jim
Shows a rookie about the grinding. Try to keep my nose on my face. But I did learn something.
Hi Milo, For some strange reason I get the feeling that your entire life is and has been an endless sequence of "ah-ha" moments. lol I only produce firewood to heat our home. I stack it four feet high on custom 4x4 pallets. Most of the time my wife stacks for me, but I still do it the same way when working solo. That way I can move it around with my skid steer and should I ever decide to sell it, it's already quantized in half cord increments. My pallets came from the old treated lumber when I rebuilt our deck. IMO Stacking is the Von Neumann bottleneck of the firewood business. There are palletizers out there, but they are pricey, ten grand and up. Maybe with the advent of A.I. afordable robots will someday l become available to stack for us. If we don't blow ourselves to smithereens first, that is. Stay well and be safe. Shalom/gw PS "Ah Ha" Maybe all of us woodhounds could use a "best practices" web site. It could cover the gamut of all things related to firewood. ;-))
I literally just listened to a podcast about Von Neumann. My brain doesn't work well with numbers but I can appreciate its role with physics etc haha!!
@ohiowoodburner Particle physics and quantum field theory are two of my many hobbies......From the foggy banks of the misty river that flows through the mind of madness! lol. Shalom/gw
Your walk is gonna get a little longer each row that you finish. Might need new shoes before long. 😉
or a young kid with a strong back LOL
Or move the PORTABLE splitter 😂
exam gloves under work gloves keep finger warm. Well Dun,
I have my own winter glove idea but I didn't have them on this day
I can't wear those 'rubber-dipped' gloves; it's like putting my hands in ice water. Leather work gloves for me,.
Try my winter glove routine. I use the white knitted gloves from HF and put my rubber ones over top Dale
Thanks for the video Joe . Happy splitting .
Thanks TM!
Joe like 👍 you have said before less touches on the wood 🪵 saves time for other things to be done ✅ 😮😊❤
Thanks todd