This was a fantastic video for people like us, who have a lot of logs, but need to rent a splitter- and never have used one before. Thank you! This actually put a lot of my fears (I know someone who lost three fingers in a log splitter so I've been leary) to rest.

Great video! No useless music and spinning splash pages - just good common sense, short and to the point. Well done sir, and thank you for your wisdom!

Thank you for this info. Just rented first splitter. Been chopping for 50 years, getting a little tired of swinging the axe. I appreciate you helping me be safe.

Thank you for posting this video! It was very helpful

Thanks Kevin and Brandon!

Thank you for the clear explanation 👏 Used to help my Dad do this, now it's all on me. Definitely feel more confident after watching this. Thanks, again.

Thanks Kevin never used a log splitter before and this video helps greatly. I appreciate you providing instruction getting ready to rent one!:)

This helped a lot.

Very helpful. Thanks.

Looking to rent a log splitter. Never used one. After this video I’m fairly confident I’ll keep all my digits attached and get the job done. Thank you.

I’ve split by hand for years. Now I have 6 trees I need to process. After watching this looking to rent a splitter now.

Thank you kevin,you were very clear in your directions.thanks

Great vid. I am using a log-splitter for 1st time today & this was very helpful. THANKS!

Very well explained and really helpful. Thank you.

We have a lot of wood to split. Our old tree that kept falling during high winds finally got cut down. Now the fun begins with the spliting. I think we will rent one just trying to make it easier for my old man to be able to do it.

Thanks for the refresher course!

Very helpful! Thank you!

Thanks for the video I feel comfortable now in renting one from Taylor's rental and start my log splitting job this weekend.

Very cool video Kevin

Got one myself I put some honda motor on and it works great

One of the best log splitting how to's I have seen in a long time.

Very good video thankyou

This was very timely. I've never used a log splitter before and I just had two huge trees taken down in my yard. I need to rent a splitter and this helped a lot. I only wish you had some huge trunk sized logs you had to break down with it in vertical mode. I have some big logs, ~3'-4' dia I'll have to try to split with this. I'm wondering if that blade will be able to crack it or if I'll get it stuck.

Great instructional! Thank You.

Thanks, I just got some rounds from felled trees from a storm up the road. This helps - going to get more out back and then rent one of these - I don't come across felled trees to often, then again who knows - this looks like fun. 1st timer here

Thanks for the video, picked up a few good tips.

Love your videos Kevin. Great pictures, and you completely explain how AND why you're doing what you're doing. Very helpful.Thank you so much!

This video was super helpful. Thanks for taking the time to make it.

I love how you said “anything between the log and the wedge is going to come off”. 😂😂 Great video. I’ll be renting a splitter to split all the massive logs my friends give me for free for my fire pit. Thanks...

Thanks for the video I really enjoyed it keep up the good work your friend G-man

Very nice video! Awesome to spend time with your son! God bless you and your family

Great Video. Thanks for sharing Kevin.

Really enjoyed this video!

Great video, Kevin. Learned a lot. Thanks and subscribed!

I enjoy my work out. Feel good splitting logs > Getting your muscles all pumped > Wrestling the Gnarly stuff is a extra work out. People pays going to the GYM, to get the work out i do REMEMBER! NO PAIN IS? NO GANE!

Thank you so much

Thank you

Nice job Kevin! Thank you for sharing!

Very good, informative and to the point. One point, you know there had to be a nit-picker, I'd reccomend hearing protection. Lost some hearing doing a lot of work around small engines. It sucks asking people to repeat themselves or say, "what?"

Great video. Really helped.

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Thank you! Just had tree taken down and have a huge pile to split.

Hey man nice video, helped me out

Interesting to see the speed with the original engine. Mine was a flat head Briggs and Stratton. And horizontal, early 80s model. . Over a replacement that is OHV that spins at 3,600~ not 3,100~ Its close to 2 seconds difference.

Mine's a little newer, has the log cradles on the sides with 25ton cylinder. Great machine, very happy with it over 10 years now. I cover it and oil the track, take good care of it. The only problem I've had is carburetor corrosion due to our crummy fuel, same as any lawn mower.

Hi Kevin - Seems like you really know what you're doing. Question--Do I split dead elm from the bottom end (trunk) side or from the top in order to prevent a stringy mess. i.e. Should the knife of the splitter hit the top or bottom of the log? Thnx. Brian.

I don’t know why, but I’ve always used my splitter in the upright position. Looks like horizontal is the way to go, especially for the small to medium stuff. Thanks for posting.

Awesome video. Can you put an attachment on it where it would cut it in four different ways.

Lucky. When I was a kid my pops would go down the hill and cut the wood then I'd haul it up and between a hammer and a 5lb wedge we'd split it up and burn all winter. I'm 43 now and my back still hurts thinking about it.Come to think of it, they switched to baseboard heat when I moved out. He's 84 now and too old to haul up the ravine. They do keep some wood around incase of power outage though.

ah man i miss that smell of fresh cut wood helping my grandpa in the summer with the wood splitter would make you sweat bad man i miss splitting wood

Wonder, in a pinch, if you could open a can of beans with that splitter?

I have the same splitter. I'm in the process of converting it to electric start using and old riding mower engine and wiring. Getting lazy in my old age

Very helpful! We had a friend cut a tree down for us and left it in large rounds. Neither my husband or I could ever split them manually so considering renting one. Your demo made it seem doable. What do you think

And them log splitter are the real thing to have for the old guys like me....CHEERS

I have not seen a single video on KZfaq, dealing with wood-splitters and feeding them with wood which is notoriously difficult to split by hand. 'Nice' (untwisted fibres) wooden pieces are routinely used in the demonstrations, blocks which can (in principle) be split using my FISKARS maul (though it takes its time). Before I doff my hat to anyone, I want to see the application of any techniques to scots-pine blocks, say, at least 60cm long and 50cm in diameter, knotty, and twisted.

Hello Kevin I have the same splitter do you know what size axle for new tires

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Good day Kevin! I was curious how much wood from the load you had in the trailer would equal out to? Would that been equivalent to a quarter cord or half of cord? Thanks in advance for the reply.👍

Safety first you will stay warm this winter.

I just gone and built me a splitter that's that darn powerful that, if you don't read the grain right and you stick it in the splitter wrong, then... well, poor log!

how long roughly does it take you to work through one trailer load?

Дровокол хорош ,слов нет, но чтобы полено пузом не держать надо столик приделать.

Would have liked to see some bigger logs split. Like 18-24 inches.

If this machine is 20 years old mine has to be 40 years lol

just go to Stodoys if you'd like to make it yourself.

Must be in coal country. That's where that yellow "plastic tarp" came from. It's actually brattice used in coal mines.

Perhaps wearing safety goggles would have been a good idea. Maybe not, but better safe than sorry.

I can see myself swinging an axe splitting a little wood then turning to the camera and saying, "My momma didn't raise no fool" then firing up the log splitter.

Gloves or at least ear plugs....

A "Monster Maul" works better than an axe!

Used to split all your wood with a hatchet? Come on! I have problems with a maul or a sledge and wedges. A hatchet?

Why on earth would anyone put their hand on the end of the log your splitting????

I’ve got some big ass logs. Not looking forward to it. Cutting them up was a bitch enough.

My 8 year old daughter runs the lever all the time, I just make sure my hands are clear before she starts the ram

is nice when you have big belly to hold the log

I hate a noisy gasoline engine! Log splitters and Chainsaws. You can hear them for miles away. YOUR STAND RITE AT IT! GOING DEAF. If i was going to get one? It would be with a electric motor. Some time i need a log splitter, cause of the weather? Make me push harder! I don't have the time to WRESTLE with the Gnarly stuff > Plus some times that all i got to work with. Study the log, where the weakest spot are? That where i use my maul, once i get it busted. I use my axe >> For me that the hardest thing about log splitting. IS? The Gnarly stuff. it does wears me out Wrestling them around side to side > I GET MY BLOOD PUMPING AND GO TO TOWN ON IT > Take a break go right back to town on it > LIKE A BOXER> 12 rounds and i'am done