need advice on wood splitting

Originally Posted by sawmilleng

That bobcat attachment is a lovely little dodad. Its pretty fast, too...he must have a decent sized auxilary pump on the loader.

I'll bet it will set you back one h*ll of a lot of copper wire!! Anyone know what it costs? $25K?

Jon.

Found a 2 year old model for 30k. A 5 year old model for 25k.

I agree with Scrappinlife . Garbriel - that seems way to cheap to me or maybe I'm just showing my age and lack of stamina. Realize a true cord of wood is 4 feet high X 4 feet deep X 8 feet long tightly stacked. I use two pallets that are 48x48 inches together and stack them full to 4 or 5 feet tall
to measure my progress.Been burning wood for heat here in CT for years. I don't turn on the boiler for heat unless its in in the single digits. I burn 6-7 cords a season and burn 24/7 to heat 2200 SF. I use a Timberwolf gas splitter with a 4way attachment that turns one log into 4 pieces. and have not run across anything I could not split with it but the cycle time is slower that I would like it to be. I just split a cord on Sunday- took 2 of us 2 hours to completely split and stack a full cord. When I started burning I could get an almost unlimited supply of wood for free but as heating oil went up more and more people jumped on the " woodwagon". I still get if free though it takes more effort to source it. This year a seasoned cord of split and delivered ( not stacked) mixed woods is about $200.00 a cord here. My logic is-- if I have to buy it then I might as well just turn on the boiler- but as long as I get get it for free and just put in the sweat equity to turn it to cord wood then so be it. I could use the fresh air and exercise.
Sorry for rambling Gabriel but personally I would look at all the factors involved and make sure it's worth your efforts ( alot of labor) or if you are making more $$ putting your efforts elsewhere.