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Smallholding => Equipment => Topic started by: kipper on January 24, 2017, 05:15:26 pm

Title: Looking for a powerhorse log splitter 22 tonne
Post by: kipper on January 24, 2017, 05:15:26 pm

I had a loan of a 22 tonne Powerhorse splitter at the weekend and it was brilliant .im struggling to find one for sale in the uk ? Does anyone have any idea who sells them ?
Thanks

Title: Re: Looking for a powerhorse log splitter 22 tonne
Post by: Bionic on January 24, 2017, 05:16:33 pm

Can you not ask the people who loaned you the Powerhorse where they got it from?

Title: Re: Looking for a powerhorse log splitter 22 tonne
Post by: kipper on January 24, 2017, 07:45:05 pm

I did thanks and they bought it from a farm sale a couple of years ago

Title: Re: Looking for a powerhorse log splitter 22 tonne
Post by: Womble on January 24, 2017, 08:09:08 pm

Hi Kipper,  We hired a similar 20 tonne petrol log splitter a few years ago, and were really impressed by it. However, when a group of us clubbed together to buy one, we actually bought this 9 tonne electrically driven splitter (https://youtu.be/3H8_VTXFTvg) instead. Edit - this is a sales link to an updated version of the same thing. (http://shop.spectrum-plant.com/default/bf-a10varioem.html)

Over the past four years or so, we've each split many tonnes of timber with it, and though the lower power means you have to think about things a bit (e.g. nibbling around the edges of big logs to start with), we haven't found anything yet that we can't split.

The BIG bonus is the electric power though. OK, it can't be used 'in the field', but it's quiet , efficient, and best of all doesn't mean breathing in exhaust fumes for hours on end!  Just something else to think about.....

Title: Re: Looking for a powerhorse log splitter 22 tonne
Post by: cloddopper on January 28, 2017, 11:39:38 am

Put logsplitter into eBay

 This one is a meaty brand new 31 tonnes splitting force engine driven hydraulic ram  mounted on a road legal trailer .  The price is meaty as well .   WX980EU Wallenstein log splitter

Honest there are so many on the eBay you're going to b  spoilt for choice .. But my 66 years of experience in the hard knocks university tell me that like chainsaws don't buy a second hand one from a stranger .

 An electric / 30 tonne hydraulkic ram splitter  and the use of a 3-4 KVA (  kilo volts amps ) genny solves the problem of taking it away from  a mains power place .  (If you  think of one KVA being enough for 3.5 amps consumption @ 240 volts & you'll not go far wrong ) .

Title: Re: Looking for a powerhorse log splitter 22 tonne
Post by: Buttermilk on January 28, 2017, 01:42:18 pm

I prefer to use one that has the ram going horizontal to those that drop it vertical.

Title: Re: Looking for a powerhorse log splitter 22 tonne
Post by: Rupert the bear on January 28, 2017, 07:41:58 pm

Mine is horizontal , at present I am scrounging parts to make an elevator to put underneath to load them  in to the storage cages . Getting old and stiff  :(

Title: Re: Looking for a powerhorse log splitter 22 tonne
Post by: Womble on January 28, 2017, 10:49:18 pm

The one we use (http://www.hannafirewoodandmachinery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/combination-log-splitters.jpg) will do horizontal, vertical, and various angles in between.

Vertical is essential for us when splitting big rounds that we can't lift (just shuffle them on, then break them into manageable chunks), whereas horizontal is easiest for splitting small stuff straight off the trailer.