Yankee Ingenuity tooling

[danmart77]

Yankee ingenuity is a stereotype of inventiveness, technical solutions to practical problems, "know-how," self-reliance and individual enterprise associated with the Yankees

Harry Bryan's Foot-Powered Wood Splitter - OffCenterHarbor.com

If you’re heating with wood, have a sledge-hammer you can press into service, and can dig up one of those long, snake-like garage-door springs, you’ll be almost ready to manufacture kindling without bending over. In the end, you’ll have a contraption that’ll be a conversation piece as well as...

www.offcenterharbor.com

I am a member of this site in Maine and I had to chuckle when I saw how Harry gets thru the wood pile in his yard. Might be something to adapt. I really like the use of tooling he employs to make his clever splitter.

I don't heat with wood anymore but the simple tooling has other applications that seem worthwhile. We'll see.

Let me know if you can not view this video.

Dan

 

[creasman]

@danmart77 Definitely see one of those in your future!

 

[Mountain City Bill]

Yankee ingenuity is a stereotype of inventiveness, technical solutions to practical problems, "know-how," self-reliance and individual enterprise associated with the Yankees

Harry Bryan's Foot-Powered Wood Splitter - OffCenterHarbor.com

If you’re heating with wood, have a sledge-hammer you can press into service, and can dig up one of those long, snake-like garage-door springs, you’ll be almost ready to manufacture kindling without bending over. In the end, you’ll have a contraption that’ll be a conversation piece as well as...

www.offcenterharbor.com

I am a member of this site in Maine and I had to chuckle when I saw how Harry gets thru the wood pile in his yard. Might be something to adapt. I really like the use of tooling he employs to make his clever splitter.

I don't heat with wood anymore but the simple tooling has other applications that seem worthwhile. We'll see.

Let me know if you can not view this video.

Dan

Thanks for posting. I enjoyed watching!

 

[Michael Mathews]

Wow Dan, thanks for sharing that! The idea is simply genius! Looked like very little effort goes into splitting a good size piece of wood.