[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Chippers and Splitters

[Lawrence Lile]

I've got an electric wood splitter.  At least it is powered by an electrical engineer.  It is about 3 feet long and weighs 12 lbs.  It starts hard in the morning unless the engine has had some hot tea.  It is very quiet, unless the engine happens to be singing or whistling or hollering for another cup of tea.  

I have always been baffled why people need wood splitters.  Just this morning I stepped outside in my bathrobe, stood up an oak log, whacked it into four pieces and packed it in with an armload of kindling in as much time as it takes to write it down.  Why a powered splitter is needed I don't know.  Most people with enough arm strength to cut their own wood can easily lift a monster maul over their heads.  The job doesn't have to be done all at once, if you just keep a maul handy by the woodpile it is a quick job to knock a log down to size.  

Lawrence Lile, PE, LEED AP
Project Solutions Engineering

-----Original Message-----
From: greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Speireag Alden
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:05 PM
To: greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
Subject: [BULK] [Greenbuilding] Chippers and Splitters
Importance: Low

Sgrìobh YankeePerm at aol.com:

>We use the palm
>fronds that the sabal palms shed because they go through our chipper-shredder
>readily and are excellent soil building materials when composted.

     Dan, I'm going to guess that you don't use a two-stroke chipper. 
Do you have an electric?  If so, what is it, and do you like it?

     I'd also like to locate a good electric wood splitter, for a 
friend of mine who splits hardwood and rents a gas-powered splitter 
every year to do it.  Anyone know of a good one?

-Speireag.

-- 
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the 
injury that provokes it.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

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