Heating with wood has its advantages and its rustic charms. And then there’s the endless chopping, stacking, and hauling of wood. If I ever go back to heating with wood, as I did many years ago, I would build me a log splitter like this one. Here, a counterweight and a spring allow gravity to do most of the work.
I couldn’t find any full plans for building one of these rigs, but you can get the basic idea from the video and these drawings that I found on a Swedish website. Here’s a Google translation of the page.
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he has got some really nice seasoned wood there!
What if you used a parallel arm?
This is being discussed over on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/2u9oj7/manuallypowered_log_splitter/) and some folks have shared additional videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGGH4XKNULU
http://youtu.be/uBNzQazldHk
Found yet another video and image gallery for a version of this project, with some basic plans.
http://youtu.be/ca7ZPfkcNqA
https://picasaweb.google.com/109446433073643701149/SajatkeszitesuFahasito
Firewood warms you twice. Once when you burn it and once when you split it.
You mean once when you split wood, then once when you burn the wood. I’ve never split burnt wood.
Found yet another video and article, from Sweden, with lots of pics, drawings, and dimensions for the rig featured.
http://youtu.be/Z06XgIz55ec
http://www.pidia.se/ingmarsklyv_eng.html
It’s nice when your wood is light and straight-grained and seems to split when you blow on it. I always seem to end up with logs that have knots and burls and twisted, stringy grains that resist the hell out being split.