Slide action wood splitter - GIF

[Toolmaker51]

Dang!
Just when I'm planning to fab up one of those spinning "cone type splitters", somebody's gotta post up a completely different,
and equally effective looking one!
Anybody have any first hand experience building or using one of these?
RicklesssS in Oregon

Effective mechanically; yes. Effective in practicality; no.
Right off the bat, this rotating hook depends on the 'anvil' towards back of work surface, which means the ability to handle various lengths is questionable. Even if movable, sorting adds labor to work tending the machine. It would have a range of diameters too, with moisture content.
Your cone type auger, hands down, is more tolerant of length, which happens during cutting. The main thing is one end should have some degree of squareness so an auger will start.

[Ricklesss]

That's a very good point. My firewood varies a fair bit in length. Sorting wood or moving the anvil would make it a pain, unlesss it was really quick somehow.
But all my firewood does have a (mostly) flat/square cut, so the cone is looking better and better..
Thanks!
RicklesssS in Oregon.

[Jon]

I think we've hit peak up-and-down sliding motion.

[ranald]

I thought the splitter was a bit high for that person: set it on a bit shorter stump. Those small sections did look pretty green and soft. I'd like to show her some real seasoned hard wood to split. My 21y.o. son loves the challenge so i always give him some curly grained with branches removed to test his skill.LOL. Some old flood wood or blackwood is tougher than steelwood & 3 times the diameter. sometimes the burn time isn't much better than eucalypt/corymbia sp.

[Rattlerjake]

Would have been much more entertaining with a Swedish Bikini Babe doing it!

[Toolmaker51]

I've seen similar, and somewhat more effective. Only difference, the guide rod has a set of 'clutch washers' and a light compression spring above. It adjusts to position the splitter a short distance above the wood. This adds inertia, instead of resting direct contact, when the slide hammer hits.

[Jon]

2:07 video:

[ranald]

a chip off the old block: safety glasses? some recoil/ jarring but like Dundee said " this is a ....".

[old kodger]

Let me see you do that with old dry ironbark

[ranald]

Let me see you do that with old dry ironbark

at least some that hasn't had the ravages of white ants. I had many metre + long sections (about 6 to 700mm dia) that were stored poorly on the ground. Kept to mount very large mature staghorns (supurbum sp) like the small one in the pic

Anyway time to mount them (a 2 man job) came, and all that was left of my log sections were the "iron bark" exteriors: white ants ate out the whole interior of almost all the large logsections.

The one in the pic is mounted on a ext ply base with appropriate filling as trees such as the Leopard tree Caelaspinia sp.( now Libidibia ferrea) does not have suitable bark for the fern.