dahmer
Here For The Long Haul!
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- 3987
- Joined
- Sep 6, 2017
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- Location
- Ellwood City, PA
Finished splitting last years oak tonight. Rolled a 22” round, 20” long into the splitter and saw that we had flush cut a 10” limb off. I usually turn the limb cuts 90* from the wedge. Pulled the lever and the ram started in. Kept going slower and slower until I was just about to back it off when the round exploded in half throwing each half 2’ to either side of the splitter. I’m 40 yards from the house, brick, and my wife heard it. She came running out to see what happened and if I was ok, it was that loud. Had stuff pop on me before but never to this magnitude. If I had a leg sticking out from my seat or somebody standing there could have been bad news. Just a heads up for others.