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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
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
