Wood Splitting Made Easier
Nothing beats sitting by a cosy fire on a winter’s evening. But first you have to get out there and split some firewood. Of course, you could use the old fashioned method of hitting a wedge with a mallet to split the wood, but you’ll get the job done faster and be sitting by the fire sooner if you use a log splitter.
Besides making the job of splitting logs easier, a log splitter can be used for more than just making firewood. Big forestry suppliers use Industrial splitters to make the first cut for making log planks, or for cutting logs into manageable size for paper making. These splitters are part of a loggers equipment used in the forest to get cut down trees ready for transport and processing. Depending upon the end use, the logs are split in a certain way so as to save time in the wood mills and in this industry, as elsewhere, time is money.
If you are interested in making furniture with your log splitter, you can use it for that purpose in addition to splitting wood for a fireplace. The rustic look of split wood furniture is popular in the western look and the cabin look.
Splitting logs by hand is tedious work. Large industrial splitters can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Smaller “pogo” style splitters are a nice upgrade to the traditional method of splitting wood with a mallet axe. All of the features such as cost, safety, time and convenience makes logo splitters a nice alternative for many people.
Even if you only use it for your cozy fires, you’ll get a lot of benefit from having a full supply of firewood all winter long.
One of the best selling pogo splitters on the market today is the “Hammer” made by Anaconda Universal Products http://www.anacondatools.com/servlet/the-101/LOG-%26-WOOD-SPLITTER/Detail
See a pogo style splitter in action Below.
