Anyone used of these things before??

This looks like a fun way to split some logs. Add a couple of Lone Stars to the mix and you might even get a nice accident.

Maybe get a second one and use these as spinners?






**Just noticed the title for the post, sorry for the "illiterassy".

 

Our firewood comes in bags, as wood pellets....fortunately....

Didn't they have spinners like that in some old movie?

 

I had one that went on a Ford 8N. Dont how well it splits logs, but will brake your arm if your not careful.

 

Yeah just looking at the picture is menacing enough. I'd try it just to say I did it... but it just looks a little too hokey. That thing looks like it could be used in just about every story that started out with, "I lost my arm in an accident..."

What if you had an open rear end and it got jammed in a log, and the other tire started spinnin'? Kidding....

On the other hand if you had a spool or locker, you could do two logs at once!

 

let's make a modern "Ben Hur" movie

 

i just think "Lawn Darts " :/

don't see how it would actually split though ??

 

Yeah the pictures suck, but it looks like it would screw into a log and bust it in half.

 

I have tightened up a 200-300 foot oilfield flowline that way. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE A GOOD SHOE ON THE PEDAL.LOL

Quirky,nervous people need not apply for that job.

 

Does it drill through it?

 

NO KIDDING! Sounds like fun though haha...

 

That's what I was thinking. The pics suck, but it looks threaded.

 

Can anyone say automotive horror movie! A B-movie with some dame gettin' drilled.... acutally with that said how about a automotive horror porn! Aw the three things I hold near and dear to my heart! Tuff!!!!

 

scary shit that,,hits a knot ,,then you got spinning log then...........

 

hell yeah, my dad had one of those when i was a kid, that thing would throw logs all over the place if you did hold on. crazy to me but I enjoyed watching my old man split logs with it hooked to the rear axle on his ol' jeep.

 

YUP! That's the first thing that popped into my head. If it wasn't 55 friggin' dollars on craiglist, I would buy. I'd give a 20 spot for it, just to add to the collection of oddball accessories and tools I have tossed in the back of the Willys pickup...

This guy really thinks he has a collectible though haha....

 

That's cool man.

Yeah, this tool is just screaming "old Jeep". If it was the same bolt pattern as the Willys, I'd see if I could get it for a little cheaper and would buy it. I don't have anything 6 lug, and don't care enough to fill and machine it to 5.

 

Should get it and put it on the Plymouth we have that someone converted into a portable sawmill.

Except that when they did it they welded big truck tires to the drums, I don't think it could be bolted up now.

 

Using that tool should get you either a Darwin award or a visit to the ER.

 

hehe, theres a reason they dont make stuff like that anymore... i.e.,Ralph Nader

 

the log splittin is not ez ... just gets yer attention sometimes ... of coarse doin it alone is stupid but...
its the fire started when the jacked up but sagging opposite side of the truck is not kept high enuf from loading the split wood in the box and the tire starts rubbing your rusty truck box side spreading fire to your spilled chainsaw gas then the wood/dried leaves in the box then the gas can and of coarse yer to far from any source of water or phone
and have to beat out the flames with yer new insulated polyester shirt and pee on it best ya can .... true story
pissen on fires is harder with out beer backup trust me..

lucky i did not get my long hair or bell bottom pants wound up on it either gosh i'm old

i buy split wood delivered/stacked now

 

I think you should stand it up on the sidewalk and then try to drop things like watermelons, basketballs, 5-gallon cans of paint, and kegs of beer on it from a 5th story window.

 

Hell yes. My dad has one that my grandfather made. He was head mechanic for Marathon Oil in Littleton, Colorado. He even put a stainless steel tip on it, and yes they are threaded like a screw. It's been sitting in our garage for years. I've never actually seen it used, but my dad used it for years when he went elk hunting and says it's amazing.

 

We used one for quite a few years. I wish I had pictures of it. We junked a '55 chevy with a running 235, cut the frame off in the middle and used the engine and 3 speed trans to drive a rear axle welded solid to the frame. Then we had a peice of heavy walled tubing the log would stop on. then we had a hand lever on the clutch and a hurst shifter. Worked great.

A common thing with these used on a car or a pickup is to have the vehical drive away on the log.

 

I just about spit my beer everywhere laughing at that!

I can just picture the old Willys runnin' off on 3 wheels and a log. LOL... I don't even think i'd try to stop it... i'd be laughing to hard at my idiot self for letting that happen.

 

I knew a couple of guys years ago that were very heavy drinkers that used one of these as the prefered method of wood splitting. The didn't split small logs either, they'd both grab 10'-14' section of tree trunk, get a running start and ram it right into that badboy spining wildly on the back of an old chevy truck and CRACK the whole piece would split in half for future cutting. I remember watching these two do it 5 or 6 times before I decide I wasn't drunk enough to even watch them! Holy shit! Amazing they're both still alive as this was only a small portion of there lives and the rest was just about as shaky!

 

Ok I don't understand how this thing works can someone explain ?

 

Set the log on the ground and slide it into the spinning "splitter" and PRAY like hell it doesn't catch and send the truck rolling away...

 

Jack the rear-end of your vehicle up, take the wheel off, bolt the splitter on the lugs, put your vehicle in gear, and then push logs onto the spinning end. As stated earlier, the spitter is threaded and starts to srew into the log until it splits. Hope that helps.

I have never gotten the impression that they were very crazy or out of control if used properly with an appropriate sized log. Some chainsaw work is required before splitting. My grandfather was extremely safety concious and like I said, he built ours himself.

 

Ok so I'm guessin it is threaded ?

 

I don't understand what this has to do this board, but I have seen a lot of stuff pulled with the wheel of a vehicle. I don't think it has anything to do with traditional rodding, but then again who am I to say?

JR Rhodes