Gotta say, that switch lever, one hand operation is genius! I was gonna do foot switch and a extender since I don’t want a stand nor want to be down in my knees. BTW that two hand operation is a safety design for like morons that sue bc their coffee was too hot and got burned bc of it. 🤦🏻♂️ This safety features ACTUALLY makes it unsafer for us folk that have enough common sense to not fall out our beds in the morning 😆 Gonna try to steal your switch idea but with an extension so heavy longs stay as close to the ground as possible. Thanks dude! Best idea I’ve seen in a while 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
You're the first person I see to add some kind of teeth to the ram! That's been one of the first mods I would do to the splitter before using it. Those splitters are great tools for the most part but I'd definitely need some mods done on one before I would use one. I'm also looking for a mod that would return the ram back without shutting the motor off. There has to be a way to rewire it to do that?
Instead of using a hatchet to split your kindling, why didn't you get one of them little ones that sits on the floor with the wedge pointed upwards, where you can sit the wood on the point of the wedge and whack it with a hammer? Those things work beautifully! All you need is a 3 pound BFH and a concrete floor
@@barrygolden9823 , the splitter works awesome on larger pieces as well I believe the splitting Ram has a rating of about 5 tons so it handles larger unsplit pieces as long as it's not nasty swamp Maple where the grain of the wood goes in 26 different directions
I bought a foot pedal at harbor freight. Use a trigger clamp to hold the button down. That's my one handed operation.
Just ordered a foot pedal today for mine! Great idea!
You have done well. I like the ingenuity.
Gotta say, that switch lever, one hand operation is genius!
I was gonna do foot switch and a extender since I don’t want a stand nor want to be down in my knees.
BTW that two hand operation is a safety design for like morons that sue bc their coffee was too hot and got burned bc of it. 🤦🏻♂️
This safety features ACTUALLY makes it unsafer for us folk that have enough common sense to not fall out our beds in the morning 😆
Gonna try to steal your switch idea but with an extension so heavy longs stay as close to the ground as possible.
Thanks dude! Best idea I’ve seen in a while 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thanks...yeah the unit was wayyyy over engineered!!
Awesome garage 👍
Nice setup. Thanks.
You're the first person I see to add some kind of teeth to the ram! That's been one of the first mods I would do to the splitter before using it. Those splitters are great tools for the most part but I'd definitely need some mods done on one before I would use one.
I'm also looking for a mod that would return the ram back without shutting the motor off. There has to be a way to rewire it to do that?
A good idea to move that switch. On mine my arm is in the way of exploding logs and I have been hit once already!
Got my handy 6 today been in in face already 😂 the push foot ram has a bulge on its face I feel it needs a spike to stop logs jumping
Instead of using a hatchet to split your kindling, why didn't you get one of them little ones that sits on the floor with the wedge pointed upwards, where you can sit the wood on the point of the wedge and whack it with a hammer? Those things work beautifully! All you need is a 3 pound BFH and a concrete floor
Cool deal. Does the axe head help splitting larger stuff as well? Hinder? Thanks for sharing!
Typically to cut kindling I'm only using pieces of wood that I've already split . The unit works exactly how it would if it were unmodified
Have you tried splitting bigger pieces with the axe mod yet? It seems like it would ease the load when splitting because of better penetration.
@@barrygolden9823 , the splitter works awesome on larger pieces as well I believe the splitting Ram has a rating of about 5 tons so it handles larger unsplit pieces as long as it's not nasty swamp Maple where the grain of the wood goes in 26 different directions
Hatchet head helps tremendously
Where did the "Stand " come from?
Did you fab it up?
No this is the stand that comes with it...
everyone can now comment and ask questions
Sweet shop. Gorilla welds (ugly but strong). I envy you. I’d rather be a knowledgeable mechanic than a knowledgeable welder.
@@70Marc taught myself to weld. I can lay a good bead when I need to, just impatient
Definitely not a welder,pretty unimpressive looking welds.
Welding wasn't the topic. Unimpressive comment..
The welds were meant to be ugly so that they held a piece of wood from slipping off of the rounded face so I had to build up a booger stack