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    Log Splitter

    I think all you'd need for a meet is a very long extension lead and maybe a wheel barrow and hey presto! Low effort log splitting. Apart from wheeling the device to the woods that is.....

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    where would i get a worm that big! lol
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    Don't let Health n Safety see these.lol.
    Splitting logs with a maul,is the only exercise I get!,when I'm at the farm in France.
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    device to the woods thatI think all you'd need for a meet is a very long extension lead and maybe a wheel barrow and hey presto! Low effort log splitting. Apart from wheeling the is.....
    Ive seen one welded to a spare rim on a pickup truck and the back end jacked up to let the back wheels turn and split the logs ! worked pretty darn good
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    Now this is how you split a real log, no H & S here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHJu...eature=related and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmtMv7Cz0HA
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    My lads got one of these 1/2 built, dont know if he'll ever finnish it but I hope not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0VKvYB4xss
    Last edited by Rasputin; 14-08-2014 at 10:51 AM.
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    Give Mark a Gransfor small forest axe and he's pretty efficient regardless of the log size.
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