Living in your own home or seasonal stay in the country gives many people a lot of pleasure. The opportunity to sit in the evening by a real fireplace, to heat a stove or to take a steam bath in your own bathhouse is not available. But there are an order of magnitude more worries with such an economy. What is the worth of firewood. And with age, with one thought about it, you will not want a bath or a fireplace. Fortunately, evolution has not spared this physically difficult process. On sale you can find wood splitters for every taste and budget.
Rack (lever) wood splitters
The design of the rack splitter is very simple. The chock is placed on the work surface, on one side of which the cleaver is fixedly fixed, and on the opposite side there is a pusher. His task is to effortfully move the chock towards the cleaver, as a result of which the wood is split.
Pressing the lever provides clutch between the engine and the rack, and after releasing it, the pusher returns to its original state due to the compression force of a powerful spring.
The operation of a rack splitter is possible using any type of engine that generates torque. It can be a gasoline, diesel and electric engine.
A rack splitter has several advantages, the main of which are:
- overall design reliability;
- simplicity of operation;
- low power consumption;
- high power and productivity;
- Suitable for any type of wood.
Pedal (spring) splitter
This type of wood splitter refers exclusively to mechanical variants. The design of the unit is a housing, on one side of which there is a fixed stop, and on the other hand, a cleaver. The cleaving of the cleaver into the wood occurs due to the compression energy of a powerful spring, which is stretched by depressing a person with the foot on the pedal. The device uses the principle of a foot car pump.
The pedal wood splitters cannot be compared in performance with electric and rack counterparts. Using such a device, you must also remember the limitation on the diameter of the chocks and the number of knots in it. But there are indisputable advantages for pedal splitter. These include:
- low price of the device;
- compact size and light weight;
- simplicity and safety of operation;
- full autonomy.
Electric wood splitters
This category of wood splitters is collective and includes units powered by an electric motor. At the same time, most often an electric wood splitter is understood as a screw version of this device.
The principle of operation of a screw splitter is to use not a classic, but a special screw-shaped splitting ax with a thread on the entire surface. Torque is transmitted from the electric motor to the cone and, due to the thread, translational movement is ensured according to the screwing principle.
A feature of this type of wood splitter is the impact of the screw not on the end but on the side of the chock. At the same time, it is important that the electric motor has sufficient power (about 2.5 kW) and low revs (not more than 1500 revolutions per minute).
The main advantages of screw splitter include:
- low cost;
- simplicity for self-manufacturing;
- the possibility of universal use of the electric motor.
Thus, the mechanization of the process of harvesting firewood will turn hard work into an entertaining hobby.The main thing is to decide before purchasing one of these types of units with the estimated amount of work and choose a device with the optimal price / performance ratio.
