[Greenbuilding] <-- or maybe it's [Harrowsmith] now ? re: Chippers and Splitters

[John Salmen]

I have a leetle swiss axe that I use in the kitchen for chopping veggies -
occasionally I degrade it by chopping wood or with its big brother. It has
only to look at a piece of hard maple (or knotty fir) and it falls into
pieces. Very very sharp - little effort - few muscles involved

JOHN SALMEN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
4465 UPHILL RD,. DUNCAN, B.C.  CANADA, V9L 6M7
PH 250 748 7672 FAX 250 748 7612 CELL 250 246 8541
terrain at shaw.ca


-----Original Message-----
From: greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org
[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Robert Tom
Sent: October 31, 2007 5:28 PM
To: Speireag Alden; GB REPP
Subject: [Greenbuilding] <-- or maybe it's [Harrowsmith] now ? re: Chippers
and Splitters

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:04:55 -0400, Speireag Alden <speireag at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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?

Sprgblfzx;

What you might look into is rigging up a fast-action 20 tonne hydraulic  
jack (cheap like borscht at automotive supply places) onto a piece of  
scrap I-beam to push the log against a "VEE" of steel affixed to the other  
end of the I-beam.

A few pumps with your hand on the jack handle and "Voila!" wood split.
No gas, no extension cord required and best of all, no noise.

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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
< A r c h i L o g i c  at chaffY a h o o  dot  c a >
manually winnow the chaff from my edress in your reply


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