Log Splitter Size Guide

Splitter Size answers the question you ask once and now keeps the answer, so a season's worth of different wood does not mean the same sum over and over. KEEP YOUR WOOD Add each batch as it comes in: this winter's oak, the storm-down ash, the small offcuts. Every batch keeps its own diameter, species and condition, filed against the machine size that covers it. Standing in front of a pile in October, you read your own note back instead of guessing which batch was which. A BAND, NOT A NUMBER Set the diameter, the species and the condition, and a band appears on a scale marked with the machine sizes people actually buy. The published guidance genuinely disagrees with itself, so a single confident number would be a lie. The band tells you the truth and names the machine that covers it. SPECIES IS MOST OF THE ANSWER Pine at six inches wants seven tons. Oak at sixteen wants twenty-five. Elm…