All wood splitters have three basic parts: a cradle to hold the log, a hydraulic ram powered by a pump (like the one you see ...

Wood. Humans have burned it ... These are flywheel splitters, sometimes called widowmakers. The winner for scariest machine we’ve seen this week goes to [Jack Dickson] and his creation ...

For the city folks, that means chopping a tree into logs, and then splitting those logs into something small enough to fit in your wood ... the machine’s hungry maw. In short, this splitter ...

Wood-splitting maul axes have been utilized for centuries, but modern conveniences like log splitters make the task ... and then letting the machine run as you wipe it down with a towel.