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[lindnova]

Are you sure it was the DHT 27 ton for that price?  If so that was a helluva deal.  I have been looking at the DHTs and like what I see.  Where is your Menards located?
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Yes it was the 27 tn in the ad.  Not all the Menards stores around here have those in stock, only the bigger ones.  There was a sale price of $1299, then a $300 rebate for store credit, but after the mail in it was pretty cheap.  Almost made me regret my Huskee 22 ton purchase for a second.  I think I am over that now and still happy with the Huskee.

I hate those rebate checks.  I forget to mail in sometimes before they expire, then always forget to bring or use them when at the store.  Overall they have saved me a ton of money on things I need anyway. 

[jrider]

I have an Iron and Oak 22 ton with a 4 way wedge.  It has split somewhere around 400-450 cords.  I don't have any complaints about it.  As others have stated, the tonnage isn't the big deal here.  I would be looking into the cycle time.  Why stand there and watch a wedge slowly move when you can be getting work done?  As for the 4 way, if you have the right sized wood, it's not twice as fast but 3 times as fast as a conventional wedge.  Run a log through once and it's in 4 pieces.  Grab the next log and go.  You will be amazed at how fast you can pile it up.

[swede]

Speeco 22 ton here.  Paid 899 for it thought it was a good value.  Seems well built but forget about starting the Briggs in anything below20 degrees.

[Hammersquash]

  I have a champion 30 Ton from TSC I paid 1200.00 for.  Its horizontal and flips vertical with very little effort.    The 20 ton was on special and when they checked stock the attendant rolled this out to my truck, said this is all they have left and gave it to me for the sale price.  Needless to say I kept my mouth shut.
  Other than the pieces of steel that are supposed to knock the wood back when the splitter gets caught crumpling  like cigarette papers and a wiring problem to the kill switch I have had great success splitting wood I can barely lift up or to the machine.

[MattyNH]

I think I like your garage setup more than the splitter ha!..Sounds like you got a great deal on the splitter..Nice spitter!

[Scott7m]

My little home built splitter

[slimjim]

NICE JOB SCOTT that looks very similar to the 4 footer that I have, well I used to have anyway, when I went to chips my neighbor and friend borrowed it after his got stolen and I haven't seen it since.

[AirForcePOL]

Nice splitter Scott! I really like those big wheels.

[Scott7m]

It's a 2 stage pump design as well, u can't stop it, it will cut stuff into

It's extremely heavy built. 

Notice the wedge is on the ram and not stationary at the end, the table/wood catcher I thought was needed at the end but since the wedge is on the ram itself it works out well.  A bit of a different design tho, the 2 stage pump cycles really fast

[Crow]

 Nice splitter and nice rims . Looks like your missing a lug nut though . Those darn chrome covered caps always seemed to fall off and the factory ones were darn expensive!

[Scott7m]

Oh yea I got 2 on one side and 3 on the other I think lol

[MattyNH]

 Nice splitter scott! 

[slimjim]

Thats for easy replacement of the wheel/tire when you back over your pulp hook like I did with my Cat, Right Scott?