Drive These Splitters To The Wood

Drive These Splitters To The Wood WOODLOT EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous 29-3-10 Why move big chunks of wood to the splitter when you can drive the splitter to the chunks? Power Split International (PSI) makes self-propelled splitters you can drive around the woodlot and they're designed to take the strain out of lifting log sections to be split. "With the heavy-duty hydraulic log lift, you roll the log on, and it flips up into place like an extension of the splitting table," explains Louis Lapoint, PSI. "Our double vertical commercial unit is for serious wood splitters. They will do up to 10,000 cords of wood a year." The Double Vertical Splitter will do up to 10 face cords per hour. The 18 hp engine cycles its 26-ton (force) rams every five seconds. PSI also makes a Single Vertical Splitter and a much smaller 9 hp model. While also outfitted with a vertical splitter, the smaller model doesn't offer the hydraulic log lift, conveyer and other options of its larger siblings. PSI gets 95 percent of its business from sales of the heavy-duty double splitter. Prices for the various units range from about $7,000 (U.S.) for the smallest model to $23,500 for the double splitter with all the bells and whistles, including a 25-ft. conveyer. All three units are self-propelled. When one pile of chunks has been split, simply drive to the next. A hydrostatic motor with locked axle provides the propulsion. Other options on the two larger units include a 20 hp engine, a roof, heavy gauge worktables and table extensions. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Powersplit International, Inc., 209 Maisonneuve, RosemÞre, Quebec, Canada J7A 4R9 (ph 888 414-2261; email: info@ powersplit.com; website: www.powersplit .com).

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