Recent content by J.Noss

Depending upon where you're gonna be sitting those you may wanna put some bigger feet on 'em because on grass or anything less than very hard ground like rock or asphalt the weight of the wood is gonna force those feet right into the ground and then you'll not have any airflow underneath. But I...

It's possible, upon looking further into this kind of trees I found one candidate that fits all of the known boxes I'll include for reading. Recall everyone that these woods are located in Perry County Pennsylvania.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyssa_sylvatica

@Junk Meister Here's another picture I didn't post that I took of the wood.. here you can clearly see that this is indeed the leaves growing from a branch of the cut logs and that it's not a vine on the ground as was suggested earlier.. I took it the other day that I posted the story but I...

Yeah certainly, I just got in from splitting all day with the replacement splitter so now I see all the comments. But anyways those woods are out at my Wife's parent's house and I don't currently have any wood to cut there, that log had laid since Feb and was the last I had to get from there...

There were no vines on the tree at all nor do we really get any like that here, we mostly get fuzzy poison ivy type vines and wild grapes and these water vines that when you cut one 1" or bigger around waterlike sap runs out of em. They all look extremely different. And it was odd enough to...

For identification purposes here is a branch from the tree which was now leafing-out after being on a piece that was cut back in February laying on the ground in these rounds.

Well the original is an old B.Stratton 650series 190cc vertical shaft and the new is a Harbor Freight Predator 212cc engine.. the old engine never even hardly notices the 11gpm pump and the new engine is a good bit more powerful.. I was pretty sure it'd pull 13gpm as the 25ton Countyline...

I'll be happier if 10yrs from now it's still working as good as it is today, and you could be right, I'm not a splitter expert nor have I much experience with hydraulics that was just our take on what we saw at the store today when testing and doing a quick look-over of it. I'm always wanting to...

75hp single stage! That sounds really cool! What GPM and cylinder size/tonnage are we talking here? Sounds like it'd have to be pretty fast/powerful to require that much HP. I've been dreaming of doing a custom splitter build one day

I'm still gonna be putting the new Harbor Freight engine on the Huskee, was interested in knowing what a quality 13gpm pump brand would be? I wanna get a really good one not a $85 Amazon one that'll break most likely. The 11gpm pump that's on it original still works just fine it's just...

The truly new one I now got is going through that same wood without a problem, sounds like a entirely different machine. I think it's awfully shady to be selling previously broken/returned splitters as new, but I think I made a good friend out of the whole situation.

Alright update on the situation: I took the splitter to the Tractor Supply, learned a few things: 1- the splitters that were being sold during the $300/off "spring black Friday deal" were reconditioned.. that is: sold, used, broken, and fixed again to be sold as new.. a super nice guy working in...

Ah that's very possible! Elm! I'm pretty good at identifying Maples, Locust, Ash, Sycamore, Oak, Shagbark Hickory, Tulip Poplar, Mulberry and even tend to do it as I'm going down the road at times but I don't have much experience with Elm besides the yearly splitting of this here wood from my...

Here's a video of the older Huskee just as an example of the 20yr old splitter than can/has split this kind of wood for years with no problem.

I'll try to do that tomorrow, it's 1:51am here for me and I need some light