Right?! I really want to make one like that. No motors, hydraulics, etc. Brilliant.

I'd bet he did after he got conked in the head a few dozen times learning it

@@nou8257 I think you meant " . . . and survived long enough to learn and breed" . Very important to win the Darwin award(s).

@@stringlarson1247 true

@@stringlarson1247 BRILLIANT, my first thought exactly.

j carry Yeah I didnt see one that was perfect

many not home made...

None were homemade

The one that was on a spring was the best one

The one with the spring, is realy simple, i like it.

Back when I was still living at home with my parents before college days, my father and I spent many weekends cutting down, cutting up trees and splitting wood to burn in the fireplace that was in the new addition to our house. Some of that equipment would have been very handy during that time! After a few years and I had moved out, they finally sold that house to another party and had a new home built on my grandmother's land after she passed away. The new house did not get a fireplace. That wood cutting and hauling got old and expensive. Cost of chainsaws, maintenance, fuel, not to mention something to haul all that heavy wood to where it would then have to be stacked up and allowed to dry if possible. Hard to burn 'green' wood, plus causes excess creosote deposits in your chimney and the maintenance on that.

It usually is faster or just as fast with a splitting maul than with a hydraulic splitter. And with the knee-height of the hydraulic splitter, it's equally back-breaking, but the maul might be slightly easier imo

Mike Henry. Well Said!

Mike Henry reminds me of farm work when I was a kid. More ways to get killed or maimed for life. Silage wagon can rip your arms off in thirty seconds. A bull can gore you to death and then stomp on you which happened to my cousin. Tractors can kill you in any number of ways. Fall off the top of a silo and you are either dead or crippled for life. Loosing a number of fingers is common. I lost the end of my left index finger to a chain saw.

Good job! I love people like you who try their best and do save someones life.

Hmm I wonder if the father regrets your actions at all.

@@reginaldbowls7180 I understand your point. As a result of his injuries, the boy was mostly paralyzed below the waist and had lost most of the use of his left arm. However, when they came to visit and say thanks, surprisingly the son was able to communicate quite well and he was able to move himself in the wheelchair. He was far from being in a vegetative state, despite the massive head injury. With the extent of the injuries, I honestly thought he would not have survived, but God works in mysterious ways, as they say.

Disaster averted. Glad you made it.

bro, you were inches from death. thats crazy!!

I'll call the Ordnungsamt! 😉

The same to you!

Ehrenmann bin auch aus der Schweiz

I'm one of the1%

Thx for that mate

Landwirtschaft in der Schweiz - HD I guess this is the one time in my life I can call myself part of the 1% 😂 have a nice day too!

It's way too jumpy and fast. Sure it's simple but one mistake and he will have a big cut and a blow into his body be it arm,sholder,head or hand.

I had to skip forward just to see it. I like it too

@@nuclearquantumlaserspewpew9745 He needs the extra expense of a crash helmet!

@@nuclearquantumlaserspewpew9745 Being Russian did not save Leon Trotsky!

That one and the one at 8:00 are what i would go with

@@mrsillywalk He wasn't Russian.

I’m so clumsy I’d split my scalp more than wood.

yeah the last one is for sure not home made. look at all th safety covers and everything

Doesn’t need gas or electricity.

I know... and either way I'm thinking "Yep. I'd use it!"

Agreed most I think are probably a little less dangerous than swinging an axe around for hours on end, trust me I know I have done it. Wood burning heating is great just time consuming!

Agreed

@@larz101a working an hourly job to pay for heat is also time consuming

The commercial ones are an example of some safer methods

A few of the splitting machines in the video were obviously commercial units. Unless very old, they are typically more safe because any manufacturer would want to avoid getting sued.

It seems anything that is designed to process wood has the potential to get you killed. That's why they mainly had me who were intelligent as the operators,and they had to put all those labels on everything when the common sense that was taught to children by their fathers, was eliminated from the society in the 60's. It's only getting worse and every generation is a little dumber. Now days they don't even know what bathroom to use.

Every tool is dangerous if improperly handled

@@devilselbow There have been cases of an employee losing fingers and the employer getting fined/sued because the employee apparently hadn't been instructed well enough in the use of the device. So, it's not always safe even if someone else is doing it.

@@herrakaarme q11

The forces at play are huge.. wouldn't be surprised to see the metal just shatter and spring in all directions

@@Legrascestlavie88 that's exactly what can happen, and you end up with rather large pieces of shrapnel

Clever inventiveness yes but if you don't think their dangerous then you know little to nothing about machinery.

Mr. Tennyson, Please! Since You Do Not Know How To Spell, I Give Little Credence To Your Comment .............

@@sherrycambridge1531 Haha, LOVE it! Some of these machines are stupid dangerous, most are as dangerous as the user is stupid. Get a city person who drives a new SUV to do this?, that's how stupid i am talking about.

@@dt9913 . Maybe you should stay in the house then,

Those are the ones splitting pine or other soft wood that splits just about as easily as looking at them.

ah yes... nothing like a seasoned twisted foot and a half diameter elm log. ..lol

Bet you’re Australian,

That one was the best.

100% manual

Love the 2nd one , bends down underneath it to get more wood....crack, splits he's head in 2.

I wouldn't use that

Please use a hard hat Whit it. Becours i think menny of us would shortly forget what is over auer head, then er bow down for the timber.

And quite.

Safe? You can't tell where the head is going to hit and it comes in at speed. One misplaced finger and it's gone.

Exactly what I was thinking.

The bar could still hit you on the head.

I understand your uncle completely he was building it for him and he was pretty slick. Most modern consumer things are devised and thought up by a pretty smart person and sold to a not very smart person that's why they're so dangerous. I mean all three the smart person the not very smart person and the machine.

Hahaha👍

Which was also his cause of death.

@@SteveMacSticky yves P po

@@marshallallensmith Dont worry grandpappy it won't take long for me to see you in the other side. You better be doing your exercises...you'll need it.

Only a splitter of death if you were an idiot, for anyone else with a healthy respect for a machine it's just a log splitter. Then again we have to have warnings on hot coffee cups that the coffee inside is HOT!

Why not..

Having a brain can protect you from the blade, any one can lose hearing after exposure to loud noises

You have never seen a saw mill have you?

@@zachdemand4508 IKR? He thinks this is bad, I wonder how he'd react to being in a steel mill? Ten Tons of molten Iron travelling over your head, held up by chains...

the first one

Its also the one that is the most labor intensive and dangerous

@@LucasSommer sounds like a millennial. Version to both work, and risk. I say let natural selection take its course!

TurboDV8 not a millennial, just pointing out the draw backs of this design

​@@TurboDV8 Someone points out something obviously true and you go straight to calling them a millennial for no reason? Your name is TurboDV8, you're a trump supporter and you rant about millennials on the internet, you're a walking stereotype bud.

I'm guessing they design machines to handle the wood they're actually going to burn. How much live oak do you split and chuck in your stove?

Enough to know that live oak can be a real bitch.

Ever try to split Iron Wood?

@@willybee3056 Yes but it splits just fine '

12:37 isn't that oak?

Heats ya twice.

Agree 👍

Дед с ручным подпружиненным колуном самый крутой👍 на 4-40

The saw especially, how hard exactly is it to attach something to it so a person doesn't need to be there wrenching their back trying to catch the falling pieces :D

The wood most DIY folks use is not uniform so an automatic feed big enough for jumbo pieces would likely jam with smaller pieces.

That would take the fun out of trying not to cut your fingers/hand/arm/head/leg off..

Went back and rewatched it 5 times. If you'll notice when he bends down to clear or set up for the next piece, he bends at the knees which prevents his head from the work area. Plus after using a machine for a long time you know where is safe. I'd trust this chopper more than some of the others. Personal choice.

A true splitting headache

Facts.

I'll trade ya. Work with my 13 yo daughter for a day and get back to me about who's more dangerous. ;)

I am glad I am only one that Thinks most of these are dangerous, Slip at wrong time, your Dead or Injured

Just make sure you know where to keep your hand lol

That's how our grand parents did things. No corporate entity telling them it's safe because they manufactured it and sold it to said grandparents. But nowadays everyone needs corporate assistance for the slightest inconveniences.

@Martin G pfft, they kept the important ones though.

And you may ask yourself, this is not my beautiful wife!

Same as it ever was !!

**writes a book that convinces everyone who reads it to become a Nazi**

Oh yea, after a bottle of Vodka?

That's kind of like saying it's not dangerous to cross the street as long as you only stay on one side. What makes some of them dangerous (some of these were not that dangerous) is that they are operating whether the person has a hand in the way or not, and rapidly at that. A moment's inattention with some of these and bam, there goes your hand. A standard, relatively safe one requires one to at least throw a lever each time and goes slow enough you could stop before you lopped off your hand.

Andy if you are focused on what you are doing and don’t senselessly get your hands any closer than they need to be, all of these machines are perfectly safe.

Lord Penguin, of course, but that is not the definition of “safe” - too big of a caveat. Trust me, I know, as my entire life has involved high-risk activities and safety/risk analysis.

Thanks for your sympathetic comments

I agree

I worked as a machinist after leaving school, my tradesman was missing a thumb lol

Made me shoot coffee outta my nose - hilarious

I just choked on my drink. Reminds me of seeing a guy at the store about thirty years ago with my dad. Dad said "oh look, it's old flying rim. He blew his jaw off overfilling a tire."

They're all made as cheap as possible from scrap. They're all dangerous, and if they break u probably just make a new one. Safest log splinters u can make are hydraulic, only linear movement, no spinning parts. Ones that are constantly running are the most dangerous

Scott Clark nothing more fun than knotty crappy wood that won’t split for nothing! You can either cut it up with a chainsaw or burn it in a pile outside lol

You mean, besides a hatchet?

How about my 4 year old grand daughter bare hand?

7:38 seemed oak to me.

And around 3:35 maybe locust. Those split relatively easily, but still hardwood.

MrAnticlimate density of the wood doesn’t mean much when it comes to splitting. Some woods have interlocking grain that make them super hard to split.