My Log Splitter's bottom pedal assembly, which allows me to accomplish the accoutrement and accept both calmly chargeless for accession the copse or throwing the breach lengths in to a adjacent pile, contributes still added to the accoutrement 's affluence of operation. The pedal is absorbed to a able bounce that pulls the ascendancy batten into its "up" position if I yield my bottom off the control. That way, I can airing abroad from the splitter—or cycle the next to-be-chopped log into place—while the 27-inch-long butt continues to rise, aback it will shut off automatically if the stop absorbed to the block hits the end of the valve and moves it aback into the aloof position. And although I've acclimatized my pedal-and-valve operation to a vertical setup, it could just as calmly be acclimated to ascendancy a accumbent machine.

In adjustment to be able to carriage my log acknowledgment into the woods, I army the accomplished hydraulic arrangement on an old auto arbor which is towed by way of a V-shaped framework (see the accompanying photo). The 5" X 10" animate I-beam (which is absorbed to the butt and wedge) is afresh absorbed to a bracket army on the axle, so that it can be pivoted bottomward to ride on top of the average bar of the towing apparatus.

You can see, then, that the vertical hydraulic copse splitter is an ideal, and readily transportable, apparatus for ail-but-effortless woodcutting. With this able machine, I can abate the bigger copse on my backwoods to a accurate assemblage of firewood ... afterwards accepting to lift a Black Diamond Log Splitter! And that's what I alarm activity conservation!