01-18-2015, 09:58 AM
(01-18-2015, 08:44 AM)stevec Wrote: My splitter has a 5/8" thick wedge without any wider "wings". The 2 speed pump moves the wood fast enough that I appreciate the relax time I get out of a full stroke. If my wood popped in two with, say, a 1/3 stroke I wouldn't be able to keep up with it.
I also find that often times although the wood is split apart there strings or threads of wood still holding the pieces together, the full stroke takes care of that.
Steve
Yup, gave up on trying to pull even a few strings apart early on. Wish mine was 2 speed though. Takes a long time to travel all the way to the end. Makes me favor ash over yellow birch! And beech is well named. It's a beech!