Ready Forums THIS ^^

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The Woodow Maker.

bwillan Indeed,

bwillan I think it's more a case of common sense. This may be a case where the inventor ends up killed by his own invention. At least he seems to have a healthy fear of it. My Idea of "safety sally" is the people who try to toddler-proof industrial equipment.

TheTomBevis As far as toddler-proofing industrial equipment: Unfortunately, there are numerous cases of plaintiff tort attorneys who are able to convince juries to award their moronic clients damages for doing moronic things with equipment. The only large plastic fuel cans that can be obtained now are marked kerosine. That way when an idiot fills a can marked kerosine with gasoline and pours it on a campfire and the flame goes into the can and it explodes, it is much more difficult to collect damages. Sometimes, even the warnings backfire. A friend of mine had some men working on his father's farm building a barbed wire fence. The spool of barbed wire had a warning: Use wire stretcher to tighten wire, do not use tractor or vehicle. The worker read it and thought, pull it with the tractor, that is a good idea. He used the tractor. It snapped and the barbed wire hit him in the back.

Wranglerstar2 that wood splitter is no more dangerous that that chainsaw sawmill you are so proud of. Sounds to me like you should join OSHA. I know, you could be known as the OSHA Homesteader.

+William Fitzgerald You obviously have no ability to judge whatsoever.

Gary Chandler Any links to pic?

This an example of applied stupidity.

Two years later, his friends call him stumpy.

+777fuzzypeach He does not drink.

Or the morgue.

dale myers Good idea. Most likely why most log spliters are slow hydraulic pistons that just wedge the wood apart.

yes, much like a ram splitter. but you wouldn't have the chance of hot hydraulic fluid spraying when a line or fitting breaks.

dale myers That never happened to me, but I can see how it can if you do not replace your lines when they start getting a bit old. I think I will stick to what I am using now, but maybe I will try a flywheel style design some day just to see how well it works.

going back to the old adage, don't fix, what isn't broken. lol.. but if you're without. you can make or make do with what you have on hand. this guy had an imagination, an engine, a welder, some metal and time.

dale myers Well anything that is capable of splitting a 24 inch round of hardwood end to end is inherently dangerous. I know of a man that was killed when the splitting wedge he was was using kicked off a knot and took his leg off just above the knee and he was wearing leather chaps.

+USNVA He accidentally beds too far or trips on some piece of log and men it hack him continuously to a splits of human bone !

Couldn't you just use some gears and pulleys (or whatever) and have it be operated with a foot pedal?🤔🤷

+Muddy Mudwiggler What happened really when he switched it on for the first time and did not know it was that fast! I imagine the shock;

to easy to injure, or take a hand off. not my kinda toy. Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas too. stay safe not like this guy with a horror grade death wish :)