Love the spring action splitter. Simple and genius. Old Guy really had the techniques down too.
@stringlarson12472 жыл бұрын
Right?! I really want to make one like that. No motors, hydraulics, etc. Brilliant.
@nou82572 жыл бұрын
I'd bet he did after he got conked in the head a few dozen times learning it
@stringlarson12472 жыл бұрын
@@nou8257 I think you meant " . . . and survived long enough to learn and breed" . Very important to win the Darwin award(s).
@nou82572 жыл бұрын
@@stringlarson1247 true
@andybilakshow260 Жыл бұрын
@@stringlarson1247 BRILLIANT, my first thought exactly.
@jcarry52145 жыл бұрын
I love that these are homemade and yet so many are still at the precise optimum height for back pain.
@Smokey2985 жыл бұрын
j carry Yeah I didnt see one that was perfect
@KnolltopFarms5 жыл бұрын
many not home made...
@Alex6325 жыл бұрын
None were homemade
@dustinsmith20215 жыл бұрын
The one that was on a spring was the best one
@anarcat66535 жыл бұрын
The one with the spring, is realy simple, i like it.
@mikehenry47434 жыл бұрын
As a sheriff's deputy, I responded one time to a medical emergency at a remote cabin site. A guy was using a homemade splitter and a piece of a clutch assembly exploded into pieces. A piece struck his teenage son slicing off a large section of the right side of his head. The wound was so devastating the family thought the boy had died. When I examined his body it turned out the boy was still alive. I was able to stabilize him until he was eventually medevaced to a hospital. He did survive and about a year later his dad brought him by to thank us. He was paralyzed over most of his body and he lost 1/3 of his brain. Every time I see machines such as these it reminds me of how dangerous they can be. With some of these machines, they are just flittering with disaster.
@Rick-tt6yq3 жыл бұрын
Mike Henry. Well Said!
@timmayer87233 жыл бұрын
Mike Henry reminds me of farm work when I was a kid. More ways to get killed or maimed for life. Silage wagon can rip your arms off in thirty seconds. A bull can gore you to death and then stomp on you which happened to my cousin. Tractors can kill you in any number of ways. Fall off the top of a silo and you are either dead or crippled for life. Loosing a number of fingers is common. I lost the end of my left index finger to a chain saw.
@Function.displayName3 жыл бұрын
Good job! I love people like you who try their best and do save someones life.
@reginaldbowls71803 жыл бұрын
Hmm I wonder if the father regrets your actions at all.
@mikehenry47433 жыл бұрын
@@reginaldbowls7180 I understand your point. As a result of his injuries, the boy was mostly paralyzed below the waist and had lost most of the use of his left arm. However, when they came to visit and say thanks, surprisingly the son was able to communicate quite well and he was able to move himself in the wheelchair. He was far from being in a vegetative state, despite the massive head injury. With the extent of the injuries, I honestly thought he would not have survived, but God works in mysterious ways, as they say.
@scottfarcus1667 Жыл бұрын
I heated my home with firewood for two winters. For anyone who hasn't done it, you consume a LOT of wood. I cut up an entire downed tree with a chainsaw, a good 16 inches thick at the stump, and it only lasted like a month. I used a friend's hydraulic log splitter and it was still a lot of work. You might think these people are nuts, but try splitting enough wood for a winter yourself and you'll come up with whatever silly tool you can think of to make it easier. Wood is gold in the winter, and people get real weird about it too, like family after inheritance. The hydraulic splitter I used was really slow. Like you'd be at it for hours, just wondering if it would be faster to use an axe. That said, I really admire the spring-action splitter. No engine racket!
@n10cities Жыл бұрын
Back when I was still living at home with my parents before college days, my father and I spent many weekends cutting down, cutting up trees and splitting wood to burn in the fireplace that was in the new addition to our house. Some of that equipment would have been very handy during that time! After a few years and I had moved out, they finally sold that house to another party and had a new home built on my grandmother's land after she passed away. The new house did not get a fireplace. That wood cutting and hauling got old and expensive. Cost of chainsaws, maintenance, fuel, not to mention something to haul all that heavy wood to where it would then have to be stacked up and allowed to dry if possible. Hard to burn 'green' wood, plus causes excess creosote deposits in your chimney and the maintenance on that.
@qaweeorltuys Жыл бұрын
It usually is faster or just as fast with a splitting maul than with a hydraulic splitter. And with the knee-height of the hydraulic splitter, it's equally back-breaking, but the maul might be slightly easier imo
@mrsillywalk5 жыл бұрын
4:40 Big spring and muscle power! The simplest is the best.
@mrsillywalk5 жыл бұрын
@@nuclearquantumlaserspewpew9745 He needs the extra expense of a crash helmet!
@mrsillywalk5 жыл бұрын
@@nuclearquantumlaserspewpew9745 Being Russian did not save Leon Trotsky!
@user-tr2dh4xx6u5 жыл бұрын
That one and the one at 8:00 are what i would go with
@fuckumaddafakka85295 жыл бұрын
@@mrsillywalk He wasn't Russian.
@uncklebuckle68595 жыл бұрын
I’m so clumsy I’d split my scalp more than wood.
@hossmonkey15 жыл бұрын
Best one is 4:42, no fuel or electricity need. Love the use of the spring to offset weight
@allenadams2469 Жыл бұрын
I had to skip forward just to see it. I like it too
@tillweber5688 Жыл бұрын
These machines remind me of an "adventure" I had when I was a young boy. I was about 13 years old, and my job at home was to make fire wood using a self-constructed (by my father) buzz saw. I did a lots of woodwork that day, and it always needed a little power to press the wood pieces against the saw blade; but suddenly I got a piece of very rotten wood and the saw did cut it in milliseconds; I lost my balance and fell towards the uncovered saw blade; but in the last moment, my hands grabbed the edge of the saw table..plate; looking down I saw the saw blade turning just a few centimeters below my chest...that was horrible. I never did that again with this saw... Hope you all understand my English since I´m German :-)...
@ronfox5519 Жыл бұрын
Disaster averted. Glad you made it.
@chrisc1245 Жыл бұрын
bro, you were inches from death. thats crazy!!
@7784000 Жыл бұрын
I'll call the Ordnungsamt! 😉
@jareddahlseid551 Жыл бұрын
The old man with the spring loaded splitter gets my vote 🏆
@RobertCochrane-tj6kn13 күн бұрын
gets my vote too
@Jeff246694 жыл бұрын
Some of these are just regular log splitters. the last one in particular seemed perfectly safe with 2 levers having to be squeezed together before it operates. When you consider that before they get to the splitting they had to fell the trees and buck the logs, the splitting probably isn't usually the most dangerous part of the operation.
@douglasdalini4932 Жыл бұрын
yeah the last one is for sure not home made. look at all th safety covers and everything
@insonh215 жыл бұрын
i liked the one using the spring
@davidoberlin41865 жыл бұрын
That one was the best.
@jaimecastro13425 жыл бұрын
100% manual
@Zedman33335 жыл бұрын
Love the 2nd one , bends down underneath it to get more wood....crack, splits he's head in 2.
@bobthebuilder29225 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't use that
@rambo88635 жыл бұрын
Please use a hard hat Whit it. Becours i think menny of us would shortly forget what is over auer head, then er bow down for the timber.
@shaverlocal Жыл бұрын
As as logging contractor for over 20+ years in the Sierra's I have seen a lot of homemade functional splitters. A few of these were pretty impressive. All of these tools can be dangerous.
@herrakaarme Жыл бұрын
A few of the splitting machines in the video were obviously commercial units. Unless very old, they are typically more safe because any manufacturer would want to avoid getting sued.
@AndrewWhitehill Жыл бұрын
It seems anything that is designed to process wood has the potential to get you killed. That's why they mainly had me who were intelligent as the operators,and they had to put all those labels on everything when the common sense that was taught to children by their fathers, was eliminated from the society in the 60's. It's only getting worse and every generation is a little dumber. Now days they don't even know what bathroom to use.
@BawkBawkBawk666 Жыл бұрын
Every tool is dangerous if improperly handled
@herrakaarme Жыл бұрын
@@devilselbow There have been cases of an employee losing fingers and the employer getting fined/sued because the employee apparently hadn't been instructed well enough in the use of the device. So, it's not always safe even if someone else is doing it.
@haroldstokes59729 ай бұрын
@@herrakaarme q11
@SzZsoel15 жыл бұрын
Not every machine of these is homemade and/or dangerous.
@Le_Comte_de_Monte_Felin4 жыл бұрын
I know... and either way I'm thinking "Yep. I'd use it!"
@larz101a4 жыл бұрын
Agreed most I think are probably a little less dangerous than swinging an axe around for hours on end, trust me I know I have done it. Wood burning heating is great just time consuming!
@hilham894 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@mitchgroh74664 жыл бұрын
@@larz101a working an hourly job to pay for heat is also time consuming
@phitsf54754 жыл бұрын
The commercial ones are an example of some safer methods
@mqbitsko255 жыл бұрын
My favorite is the people-powered bouncy spring one. THAT is genius!
@shockcoach Жыл бұрын
Doesn’t need gas or electricity.
@sansdecorum46005 жыл бұрын
Impressed with the cross-splitting capacities of some of these machines. Splitting with the grain is one thing, but going 90 degrees to it is another thing all together. Torque is most definately your friend with the massive reduction gear boxes. Being forever aware of hand and finger placement is critical, unless you like the nickname; stumpy.
@Legrascestlavie88 Жыл бұрын
The forces at play are huge.. wouldn't be surprised to see the metal just shatter and spring in all directions
@TheTuttle99 Жыл бұрын
@@Legrascestlavie88 that's exactly what can happen, and you end up with rather large pieces of shrapnel
@TB-qv2nq3 жыл бұрын
I like the one with the big spring 4:40. Your the one in full control with very minimal effort. Very nice design. Underrated for sure.
@blackdragonstory11223 жыл бұрын
It's way too jumpy and fast. Sure it's simple but one mistake and he will have a big cut and a blow into his body be it arm,sholder,head or hand.
@ronniechilds20023 жыл бұрын
My uncle was a mechanic who had a service station and garage out in the boonies, starting in 1930. He had a stripped down Model T Ford, actually an old Yellow Cab, with a big wood-saw blade welded to the drive shaft. This is where he chopped his firewood. He could not have designed it any more dangerously if he tried. He had all ten fingers, but only one eye. He lost the other one working on a car, but not by sawing wood. The Model T is still sitting there to this day, or rather what is left of it.
@markmcgoveran6811 Жыл бұрын
I understand your uncle completely he was building it for him and he was pretty slick. Most modern consumer things are devised and thought up by a pretty smart person and sold to a not very smart person that's why they're so dangerous. I mean all three the smart person the not very smart person and the machine.
@magnum82645 жыл бұрын
The Orange one behind the tractor, That thing is sweet!
@TurboDV85 жыл бұрын
4:43 Texting not recommended while doing this. This is my favorite one, the one that splits the wood faster than any of the others, and also the only one that works when you have no electricity or fuel. Also the simplest, made from Parts you can scrounge from any salvage yard.
@LucasSommer5 жыл бұрын
Its also the one that is the most labor intensive and dangerous
@TurboDV85 жыл бұрын
@@LucasSommer sounds like a millennial. Version to both work, and risk. I say let natural selection take its course!
@LucasSommer5 жыл бұрын
TurboDV8 not a millennial, just pointing out the draw backs of this design
@taco38142 жыл бұрын
@@TurboDV8 Someone points out something obviously true and you go straight to calling them a millennial for no reason? Your name is TurboDV8, you're a trump supporter and you rant about millennials on the internet, you're a walking stereotype bud.
@Toobula4 жыл бұрын
LOVE the first pusher. I could use that easily. They got the speed perfect.
@TheSilmarillian4 жыл бұрын
The big spring at 4:40 gets my vote we use spring coils at the top of the hoist to return the bucket,same idea.Hello from Australia on the opal fields
@LandwirtschaftinderSchweizHD5 жыл бұрын
For the 1% of people randomly scrolling through the comments... Have a great day and may all your dreams come true!
@fhe4685 жыл бұрын
The same to you!
@berendtwohl-bruhn46685 жыл бұрын
Ehrenmann bin auch aus der Schweiz
@teribear455 жыл бұрын
I'm one of the1%
@nikolatesla29625 жыл бұрын
Thx for that mate
@Beandiptheredneck4 жыл бұрын
Landwirtschaft in der Schweiz - HD I guess this is the one time in my life I can call myself part of the 1% 😂 have a nice day too!
@tantoismailgoldstein62795 жыл бұрын
You know you were loved when grandpappy only left you his splitter of death in the will.
@SteveMacSticky5 жыл бұрын
Hahaha👍
@marshallallensmith5 жыл бұрын
Which was also his cause of death.
@florinanghel50375 жыл бұрын
@@SteveMacSticky yves P po
@Corteslatinodude4 жыл бұрын
@@marshallallensmith Dont worry grandpappy it won't take long for me to see you in the other side. You better be doing your exercises...you'll need it.
@SilvaDreams3 жыл бұрын
Only a splitter of death if you were an idiot, for anyone else with a healthy respect for a machine it's just a log splitter. Then again we have to have warnings on hot coffee cups that the coffee inside is HOT!
@nickw93764 жыл бұрын
I love the way these woods split as soon as you look at them. most of the stuff I have been working with, the wedge has to go full stroke and even they will fight splitting. Half these machines would just fail.
@andy3474 жыл бұрын
Those are the ones splitting pine or other soft wood that splits just about as easily as looking at them.
@filougreendog Жыл бұрын
ah yes... nothing like a seasoned twisted foot and a half diameter elm log. ..lol
@tonykourounblis18547 ай бұрын
Bet you’re Australian,
@SpressoHead5 жыл бұрын
I love the human-powered unit. So ingenious, and very productive too!
@sherrycambridge15315 жыл бұрын
I Don't Know About Dangerous But I Do Truly Admire The Inventiveness Of This Machinery !!!!!
@dt99135 жыл бұрын
Clever inventiveness yes but if you don't think their dangerous then you know little to nothing about machinery.
@sherrycambridge15315 жыл бұрын
Mr. Tennyson, Please! Since You Do Not Know How To Spell, I Give Little Credence To Your Comment .............
@caratcranker58745 жыл бұрын
@@sherrycambridge1531 Haha, LOVE it! Some of these machines are stupid dangerous, most are as dangerous as the user is stupid. Get a city person who drives a new SUV to do this?, that's how stupid i am talking about.
@bradjenkins9324 жыл бұрын
@@dt9913 . Maybe you should stay in the house then,
@TULRICK5 жыл бұрын
I love it... ear protection with a open spinning blade
@joe125ful5 жыл бұрын
Why not..
@reinergale20765 жыл бұрын
Having a brain can protect you from the blade, any one can lose hearing after exposure to loud noises
@zachdemand45085 жыл бұрын
You have never seen a saw mill have you?
@TimeSurfer2063 жыл бұрын
@@zachdemand4508 IKR? He thinks this is bad, I wonder how he'd react to being in a steel mill? Ten Tons of molten Iron travelling over your head, held up by chains...
@Skitad5 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up for the grand father using no external sources of energy
@user-uu7lv1tf7g4 жыл бұрын
Хорошее видео. Все виды в одном собраны. Круто !
@tilidie52725 жыл бұрын
old mans at 4:40's the best . he uses momentum, everyone else uses fuel.
@davesstuff15995 жыл бұрын
Easy to split wood in every case. I want to see a piece of live oak tried out.
@mqbitsko255 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing they design machines to handle the wood they're actually going to burn. How much live oak do you split and chuck in your stove?
@harristweed59375 жыл бұрын
Enough to know that live oak can be a real bitch.
@willybee30565 жыл бұрын
Ever try to split Iron Wood?
@chargermopar5 жыл бұрын
@@willybee3056 Yes but it splits just fine '
@w00dchuck435 жыл бұрын
12:37 isn't that oak?
@WebflingerJoe4 жыл бұрын
The massive axes on springs had me kinda nervous ngl 😂
@evilreddog3 жыл бұрын
a few of these machines where quite reasonable, some even commercal products. But the home made spring cleaver was quite cool, would personaly have put a hydraulic break on it that was active all the time until you pressed the handel, that way you dont have to worry about smashing your hand while putting a new log on. and yes, like many i got randomly reccomended these videos, but also. i have worked in the commercial firewood business before and we used Dalen wood processing machines
@MrTruckerf5 жыл бұрын
We used to run a buzz saw mounted on an 8N Ford. Tossed blocks off of it starting at 10 years old. Never an injury but nothing gets respect like a howling buzz saw! Anything over a foot in diameter we split with maul and wedges. About 35 years ago finally got a big hydraulic log splitter mounted on a 3020 JD. I am retired but I still split wood by hand if it is frozen ash, oak or hickory. Splits like glass at 10 below!
@ronfox5519 Жыл бұрын
Heats ya twice.
@eatyolkgetyoked Жыл бұрын
3:15 I have the same setup. Homemade pull behind trailer style on an i beam frame with an old Wisconsin motor powering a hyd. cylinder with about a 20” stroke. It splits 30” dia logs up to 20” long and tears through the knottiest wood
@danhogle1776 Жыл бұрын
I like the hand-powered spring one....very ingenious
@michaelandcolinspop4 жыл бұрын
If the first two were spinning at 200+ mph, they’d be ideal candidates for BattleBots. Seriously, there’s some major ingenuity going on here.
@jasnterry13135 жыл бұрын
As impressive as the engineering is on a few of these, I can't believe none had an automated feed system.
@lolatmyage4 жыл бұрын
The saw especially, how hard exactly is it to attach something to it so a person doesn't need to be there wrenching their back trying to catch the falling pieces :D
@pillager61904 жыл бұрын
The wood most DIY folks use is not uniform so an automatic feed big enough for jumbo pieces would likely jam with smaller pieces.
@tazman86972 жыл бұрын
That would take the fun out of trying not to cut your fingers/hand/arm/head/leg off..
@genehalteman8825 жыл бұрын
Respect to the elderly gent at 5:00!😊💪
@peteorzech2603 жыл бұрын
It’s called “ingenuity “, that’s how greatness is created!
@m_l_hill4 жыл бұрын
Awesome machines. My favourite is the one with the big spring, powered by hand
@Wadley2255 жыл бұрын
That long lever / spring design seems like the safest one to use, easiest to control.
@Minsc2 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking.
@grimp532 жыл бұрын
The bar could still hit you on the head.
@creativeaccountname5 жыл бұрын
i love the machine @ 4:40 Insane i will build it for splitting on sundays!
@BluBarron4 жыл бұрын
The grain in the wood the green machine was cutting was beautiful!
@yepiratesworkshop79972 жыл бұрын
That second one looks a LOT like the transmission in my vintage New Holland hay baler. I've been thinking about using it to make a power hammer for my blacksmith's shop.
@delljohnson1725 жыл бұрын
Cool machines best one i liked was the one the guy Pulled Down by hand. cool.simple fast safe imo
@BigEsGarage5 жыл бұрын
And quite.
@_droid5 жыл бұрын
Safe? You can't tell where the head is going to hit and it comes in at speed. One misplaced finger and it's gone.
@mallorylangford76995 жыл бұрын
Oh my god, what will split this rotting birch, poplar and pine?
@zoidlrrr46335 жыл бұрын
You mean, besides a hatchet?
@garyhull56175 жыл бұрын
How about my 4 year old grand daughter bare hand?
@MrAnticlimate5 жыл бұрын
7:38 seemed oak to me.
@MrAnticlimate5 жыл бұрын
And around 3:35 maybe locust. Those split relatively easily, but still hardwood.
@MustObeyTheRules5 жыл бұрын
MrAnticlimate density of the wood doesn’t mean much when it comes to splitting. Some woods have interlocking grain that make them super hard to split.
@jamesbraithwaite4785 жыл бұрын
I really loved that spring loaded "nodding donkey" axe. What a great idea.
@dandan7973 Жыл бұрын
Just make sure you know where to keep your hand lol
@ralphmacchiato37613 жыл бұрын
4:40 ingenious, safe and needs no fuel
@retheisen5 жыл бұрын
5:30 That thing smacked me in the head six times just watching him.
@pillager61904 жыл бұрын
Went back and rewatched it 5 times. If you'll notice when he bends down to clear or set up for the next piece, he bends at the knees which prevents his head from the work area. Plus after using a machine for a long time you know where is safe. I'd trust this chopper more than some of the others. Personal choice.
@thomasz49813 жыл бұрын
A true splitting headache
@thebluelunarmonkey4 жыл бұрын
1) arm remover 2) skull splitter 3) hand detacther 4) log splitter - nice and slow, plenty of room to have hands in middle and not be on the pinching or cutting end
@markjones4642 жыл бұрын
I am glad I am only one that Thinks most of these are dangerous, Slip at wrong time, your Dead or Injured
@tymz-r-achangin Жыл бұрын
4:40 That's pretty cool! There's always someone out there with a good head on their shoulders to come up with some clever things with scrap metal laying around
@AB-tc1vx5 жыл бұрын
The one shown at 3:18 is no more dangerous than any commercially made log splitter. The keys to safety: NO pinch point between the pusher and the blade, low speed, single actuation each time a log is inserted.
@ithewanderer8305 жыл бұрын
Most dangerous homemade automatic firewood processor; 11yo son
@zabt89065 жыл бұрын
Facts.
@ericmowrey68725 жыл бұрын
I'll trade ya. Work with my 13 yo daughter for a day and get back to me about who's more dangerous. ;)
@untitledC645 жыл бұрын
man a guy could really make a in depth detailed video comparing each of the different models shown here, whats the primary driver? whats the limitations of each one, costs to maintain. how effective it is.this is really interesting stuff
@hifartingoctopuss Жыл бұрын
They're all made as cheap as possible from scrap. They're all dangerous, and if they break u probably just make a new one. Safest log splinters u can make are hydraulic, only linear movement, no spinning parts. Ones that are constantly running are the most dangerous
@zeeklevell572 жыл бұрын
This is amazing and SO satisfying to watch.
@taxfreedollars Жыл бұрын
I think 5:57 is the most efficient and flexible, honourable mention to the coil spring powered one, no fuel used and he certainly has that down pat.
@justbreakingballs Жыл бұрын
Not sure it's home made though
@larrylong4344 жыл бұрын
At 4:50 the one with the human spring powered was the best lol.
@lukesky48035 жыл бұрын
Made in the UDSSR ;-) Simple but works
@swotteh4 жыл бұрын
I don't see the "danger" in the second one if you watch what you are doing, AND...it's the quietist one in here...love it.
@brokenglasses121345 Жыл бұрын
He who chops his own firewood warms himself twice..
@robertmacleay4953 жыл бұрын
I need more information about the splitter in the frame 7:38 to 8:56. That machine is both quiet and efficient.Crazy in fact that machine is so quiet I think a newborn baby could sleep next to it
@redpoole93235 жыл бұрын
And the guy with the springloaded splitter only needed gloves with 3 fingers. Lol.
@joe125ful5 жыл бұрын
Yeah,bouncing a lot:)
@Snarky795 жыл бұрын
-------And no weenie!!
@DrJohn493 Жыл бұрын
Growing up on the farm, my dad would call these kinds of contraptions "kill-me-quicks."
@saganich743 жыл бұрын
Very satisfying to watch thank you 😊
@eventfulnonsense3 жыл бұрын
I've work in a can manufacting company almost thirty years ago. And believe me, the press machines I've worked on are far more dangerous than these. We were 40 or so newbies at that time, more than half lost their fingers before our six months contract expired, I'm one of the luckies with ten fingers still intact. The machines above are just child's play in my standards.
@scotland2256 Жыл бұрын
I worked as a machinist after leaving school, my tradesman was missing a thumb lol
@meljenkins10165 жыл бұрын
Some of these are not even dangerous unless your whole body falls into it.
@Chris-yy7qc5 жыл бұрын
So youre saying maybe losing your arm is not dangerous?
@CsykKrit5 жыл бұрын
@@Chris-yy7qc if one loses their am on a simple machine like this 🤦🏼♂️
@randymagnum1435 жыл бұрын
@@Chris-yy7qc 'tis but a scratch.
@trje2465 жыл бұрын
watch at 2x speed!! :oS
@adambussert62985 жыл бұрын
Guess you never smashed your finger splitting wood
@christophernunn943 Жыл бұрын
I notice the wood is all straight grained easy split. Some of the knurled lumber I deal with would jam up these contraptions.
@wazowski6709 Жыл бұрын
I really like the 1st & 2nd one, very satisfying to watch.
@jackwood83075 жыл бұрын
And thats how uncle lefty got his name son.
@scottalbert76355 жыл бұрын
Made me shoot coffee outta my nose - hilarious
@jcarry52143 жыл бұрын
I just choked on my drink. Reminds me of seeing a guy at the store about thirty years ago with my dad. Dad said "oh look, it's old flying rim. He blew his jaw off overfilling a tire."
@QueLastima3 жыл бұрын
"And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?"
@paulmorris61773 жыл бұрын
And you may ask yourself, this is not my beautiful wife!
@scatdog13 жыл бұрын
Same as it ever was !!
@robertblalock5009 Жыл бұрын
The spring loaded giotene looks to be most dangerous of all the "rigs" I saw. Idea is good but operator takes a lot of chances around the point of impact. Bending and hands close for two examples. Good idea, bit deadly. Thanks
@jimbeekman48635 жыл бұрын
Only 4 fingers were lost while making this video...
@3melendr5925 жыл бұрын
Jim Beekman, small price to pay right? Lol By the way, do you have kin in New Mexico or Nebraska? I know Amber and have met her parents. I also met a man by the name of Jeff Jorde a long time ago near Willard, New Mexico. Amber told me she was related.
@josepeaa19105 жыл бұрын
Still remaining six more
@graemeyoung36785 жыл бұрын
Excellent comment, lol,
@randoorsino45845 жыл бұрын
Luckily they were only prosthetic fingers and the holes in the gloves were repaired so that they would not lose anymore.
@kirmanaras20575 жыл бұрын
Igdirsondakahaberler
@pieterklaaskrugmann5 жыл бұрын
Thats right, gloves makes it all safe😂
@peterf53183 жыл бұрын
I like all of them, but the 4 and 2 way orange splitter was graceful and powerful and accurate.
@TimeSurfer2063 жыл бұрын
Been cutting firewood most of my life. Don't think I've ever seen a "Safe" Commercially made wood splitter. And doubt I'd use one, either. There are modifications I would make to some of these, like guards on moving chains and belts... And making sure the work is at the optimal height for maximum back pain ^^
@chrisjames32045 жыл бұрын
Most of these are less if not no more dangerous than using a chainsaw or axe, but the 2nd and 7th are my favourites, the cut is coming from above and they are both bending down in line and height with it, a stumble or lapse in concentration and it's melon splitting time, the wreck of a work area is a helpful touch too.
@WoodworkingTV5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your sympathetic comments
@dandan7973 Жыл бұрын
I agree
@nottoday6115 жыл бұрын
The kids at 4:30 with the hoodie strings around the 3 ft logging blade...jeeesus...
@TheGezerolee4 жыл бұрын
The danger does not come from the machine but from the human ;-)
@tomwatson90324 жыл бұрын
1:25 this is the safest one yet... The runway needs to be a trough or "V" shape to hold the wood more securely and prevent the user from having to steady the log. Also the blade should not get close enough to the die to do any damage to a hand.
@_garebear Жыл бұрын
I dunno. 5:40 looks like something the kids would have fun using and do a good job.
@tilerman Жыл бұрын
That's what i was thinking. That's actually quite an impressive machine and the 2 guys seem competent.
@robertdh6855 жыл бұрын
The older guy with the spring loaded man powered devise wins. Fast and quiet
@jsgould53925 жыл бұрын
And next week's show wil be how to find your fingers in the wood pile!
@cmhowe724 жыл бұрын
It's like bow hunting... jus follow the blood trail.
@oneselmo3 жыл бұрын
Simple! Just wear a biker ring on each finger and always keep a metal detector on the job site
@peaveawwii14 жыл бұрын
Cool invention. I always used an ax. Dad said it would make me stronger. This would be great for the ladies to use
@retro4405 жыл бұрын
Ingenious machines. Hats off to the inventors.
@dezman56ford3 жыл бұрын
Spring and cantilever with a cutting head is brilliant, simple design, no electric or hydraulic power required.
@user-fi7pq3xp4t3 жыл бұрын
Дед с ручным подпружиненным колуном самый крутой👍 на 4-40
@oby-16075 жыл бұрын
The old guy with the spring bouncing the splitter up and down is gonna get beaned one day.
@cadet1174 жыл бұрын
He probably has once or twice already
@dadillen59023 жыл бұрын
No, but he has be Potatoed
@oneselmo3 жыл бұрын
His core strength must be amazing.
@Archie_Haddock Жыл бұрын
When I was a child my first order of business when summer vacation started was to help my grandmother with preparing the fire wood for the winter. In the village they had a belt-driven contraption of a large wheel with two axes on where you put the wood to split. It was spinning really fast so you could never see the axes coming. My job was to feed the wood into the machine. I was usually terrified and am very lucky to have all my limbs intact. The smell of fresh wood bring many memories.😅
@Calthecool3 жыл бұрын
3:03 I have used that kind of splitter before, they are actually pretty common.
@azonicrider325 жыл бұрын
LOL, I remember the first "real" job I did for my Grandad when I was about 14.. He rented one of these machines and I operated it for 3 whole days.. the fire wood I cut lasted over 5 years at my family cottage. my grandad gave me $20 for the work..
@spyrosm.28715 жыл бұрын
azonicrider32 hahahhahaaha you should have asked for more old grandpa robbed you
@64bago5 жыл бұрын
Score.
@saltyspirateden5 жыл бұрын
bout 35 years ago I met an old boy that had a contraption like that splitter at 5:00, he had it set up with a froe for making cedar shakes, it worked great.
@steamboatwillie85175 жыл бұрын
The farm at the back of where I lived as a kid had one similar. This was before H& S ruled the world. My Saturday job at 11 was to be given a pocket full of dust shot, a .410 bolt action BSA single shot, and sent to despatch as many rats as I could see in the barns & yards...and got paid for it 5/=. !
@MR-rt8bx5 жыл бұрын
Explain 'froe' please.
@joey74220034 жыл бұрын
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@MR-rt8bx4 жыл бұрын
@@joey7422003 now i know.
@issealo79905 жыл бұрын
This is so satisfying to watch!
@jefffromjersey52 Жыл бұрын
The Horizontal Log Splitter at 1:23 is actually pretty Good , and practical .. so much faster than Hydraulic .. I would buy that setup..
@MikeL-vu7jo5 жыл бұрын
these are some of the most Dangerous contraptions i think i've seen
@CsykKrit5 жыл бұрын
That's how our grand parents did things. No corporate entity telling them it's safe because they manufactured it and sold it to said grandparents. But nowadays everyone needs corporate assistance for the slightest inconveniences.
@CsykKrit4 жыл бұрын
@Martin G pfft, they kept the important ones though.
@hellohun73315 жыл бұрын
S The grasshopper leg crankmeister 5000 is a good design.
@mikesters555 жыл бұрын
Also works on chickens!
@CsykKrit5 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha
@Trucker19575 жыл бұрын
My favorite part was the pedal steel guitar playing.
@Wadley2254 жыл бұрын
The one at 4:50 is probably the safest of them all, best and simplest design.
@colinbarnett74414 жыл бұрын
None of these are dangerous as long as the person using them is capable. A pencil is dangerous depending on who you give it to.
@mathiastheapprentice4 жыл бұрын
**writes a book that convinces everyone who reads it to become a Nazi**
@lindastevens35474 жыл бұрын
Oh yea, after a bottle of Vodka?
@andy3474 жыл бұрын
That's kind of like saying it's not dangerous to cross the street as long as you only stay on one side. What makes some of them dangerous (some of these were not that dangerous) is that they are operating whether the person has a hand in the way or not, and rapidly at that. A moment's inattention with some of these and bam, there goes your hand. A standard, relatively safe one requires one to at least throw a lever each time and goes slow enough you could stop before you lopped off your hand.
@colinbarnett74414 жыл бұрын
Andy if you are focused on what you are doing and don’t senselessly get your hands any closer than they need to be, all of these machines are perfectly safe.
@andy3474 жыл бұрын
Lord Penguin, of course, but that is not the definition of “safe” - too big of a caveat. Trust me, I know, as my entire life has involved high-risk activities and safety/risk analysis.
@rexsheeley81775 жыл бұрын
what ever keeps you from freezing to death
@SteveReynold5 жыл бұрын
Lol
@SCJ-up2ob5 жыл бұрын
My thought exactly
@austinbutcher81064 жыл бұрын
Working
@jelt110 Жыл бұрын
Next video: ten best emergency room amputation/crush injury cases. But ya still gotta love some of these inventions.
@osos2315 жыл бұрын
Second one should go on Guiness for being the safest
@DrForester544 жыл бұрын
First two are not particularly dangerous, as long as you don't do something stupid. Third one is pretty dangerous, just because it is a lot easier to slip up and do something stupid. Fifth one is "interesting". I wouldn't be standing so close over the top of it, and it would probably have trouble chopping much harder/denser wood that that shown in the video. Sixth one is a pretty standard DIY hydraulic splitter, I've seen a million of those. Seventh one is a very cool idea, but very specific to a particular size. Seen several like it before, and not particularly dangerous with it's slow speed. Eighth one is pretty darn cool, but the danger comes from the necessity of holding on to the chunk of wood while it is being split (never know what it will do in some cases if there is a bit knot or other defect). Ninth one is no more dangerous than using a standard chop saw. Tenth one is an AWESOME DIY design requiring no engine or fuel (perfect for SHTF), but you need skill, common sense (for the sake of your fingers) and to keep your head away from it. Tenth one is fairly standard, I've seen plenty of ready-made designs like this. Not difficult to operate and just follow standard rules of "watch your hands" and "stay out of the way".
@davefoster4602 Жыл бұрын
David Ray Foster ,dr Forester said it right ,use good vommon sense, when Operating these machines