On 2004-10-25 13.35, "Andres Yver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > What creates the force to lower the axe head? A sledge? The lever arm? > Is this like a big nutcracker? > > thanks, > > andres You are standing in front of the thing and you lift up on the handle which in spite of the heavy bit the axe head is fixed to is quite easy and then you help its weight inertia by pulling down if you think you need to. If the log doesn't split first time the axe and log lift together helped by the spring and now with the log impaled the whole thing is even heavier on the down stroke and that usually does it. It is a lot easier than wielding an axe or a maul and you can go at your own pace. Sorry I can't explain why it works in 'learn ed' terms - I would be interested to know myself- someone? ;-) Another thing is that like an axe it works best with fresh cuts and the logs ends should get hit square straight across their rings. Angle cut logs won't be so easy and will stress your equipment unless you allowed for that. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
