# Firewood Splitters
**URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/firewood-splitters/6602
**Category:** Homesteading
**Created:** [April 24, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/firewood-splitters/6602 "2022-04-24T12:31:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Dave\_Boyt](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Dave_Boyt)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/firewood-splitters/6602/1 "2022-04-24T12:31:13Z")
With the interest in sawmills & electric chain saws, the missing link is splitting the firewood (I’m 68 & the splitting maul keeps getting heavier every time I pick it up).
Kinetic splitters have the advantage using a flywheel to even out the power consumption. I modified an electric SuperSplit and it works beyond my expectations, running off a .75 kW solar array, deep cycle batteries and 4 kW inverter. The array also powers a Husqvarna 216 electric saw & charges batteries for a Makita cordless saw. The solar unit is featured in the Spring 2022 issue of New Pioneer. Here is a link to a video of the system splitting sawmill slabs.
[(33) Solar Powered SuperSplit electric firewood splitter vs. 200-pound log - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tgTWRBEDFI&t=510s)
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### Author:  [@ForbiddenTuna](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/ForbiddenTuna)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/firewood-splitters/6602/2 "2022-04-24T12:46:53Z")
That is pretty dang cool! Thank you for sharing your ingenuity.
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### Author:  [@Wayne](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Wayne)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/firewood-splitters/6602/3 "2022-04-24T12:54:51Z")
Thanks much for the video Dave. I enjoyed it .
If you have a small sawmill then you should also have a wood powered truck 😄
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### Author:  [@Dave\_Boyt](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Dave_Boyt)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/firewood-splitters/6602/4 "2022-04-24T17:47:25Z")
Wayne, thanks for the comment! I’ve been following your videos for years.
Truck is on the radar. I have a '95 Dakota with the small V8. Other than the shocks & struts, it is ready for conversion. I also have a spare 8N Ford tractor engine that should be a good candidate for a portable power unit. I’m building a FEMA gasifier, just for the experience, but whoever referred to it as a “weekend project” doesn’t know me.
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### Author:  [@Dave\_Boyt](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Dave_Boyt)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/firewood-splitters/6602/5 "2022-04-24T17:48:18Z")
Thanks, Cody. Now I’ve gotta get it going on wood gas to complete the cycle.
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### Author:  [@pobrien603](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/pobrien603)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2022, 7:17pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/firewood-splitters/6602/6 "2022-04-24T19:17:43Z")
Have a couple of kinetic splitters being used to split wood at the shop eight hours a day and now for four and five years of use I can say they are really reliable.
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### Author:  [@Wallace](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Wallace)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/firewood-splitters/6602/7 "2022-04-24T19:24:23Z")
> [@Wayne](#):
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> If you have a small sawmill then you should also have a wood powered truck 😄
A chum of mine has a farm and his wife has a saw mill.
I said that too him and his reply was the wife runs the mill and won’t put wood in the truck…
A question of convenience for some.
Wayne if I had one of your trucks I would stop at every gas station and buy a small bundle off wood just to thumb my nose at the oil company.
But you can’t even buy a truck anymore up here they are like gold…
Unless it has Flintsone brakes your paying a lot for used one too.
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### Author:  [@Norman89](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Norman89)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/firewood-splitters/6602/8 "2022-04-24T20:07:54Z")
Even the Flintstones were energy independent like us woodgasers, no gasoline ( more properly for the timeline, Dinojuice) was needed!
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### Author:  [@Dave\_Boyt](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Dave_Boyt)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2022, 11:25am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/firewood-splitters/6602/9 "2022-04-25T11:25:34Z")
We’re running on ancient, refined Dinojuice now. How’s that working for you? Folks on this forum have enough common sense to skip that step and go directly to stored sunshine.
