SuperHandy Log Splitter Portable Electric 14 Ton Rapid Auto Return Hydraulic Ram System Bucher Gear Pump 2.5eHP 15Amp Motor Horizontal Full Beam Steel Wedge Firewood Splitting Forestry Harvesting

Well folks here it is quick and dirty. It's a good little splitter, but as it is with the electric motor that it comes with the machine will not produce 14 tons. Does it split most anything that you put on, yes as long as you know what you're doing. On larger diameter pieces you do need to kind of nibble them down for the machine to process them effectively. That begs the question why did I give it five stars. Well the answer to that is fairly simple. The way that the splitter is constructed and built you are able to replace any of the hydraulic components on them through a local hydraulic shop. The motor that is on it is a common frame motor. So my rating of five stars is due to the fact that the splitter is completely rebuildable without a whole lot of effort. My experience using this little splitter has really been a positive one and as long as you understand that the only amount of power that you have is the power that can be generated by a little electric motor. If you keep that in mind and know what you're doing in the operation of a log splitter I don't think you're going to have any trouble with it. However if you are some kind of hack and Slash individual that frankly doesn't know what you're doing I think you are going to have trouble with it. For someone that is burned wood my whole life and I have owned several different log splitters both gas and electric I would say that this one is probably better built than most. What I mean by that is how much steel there is in this little splitter. Unless you are a very strong individual you are not going to pick this splitter up. There are some things that you need to keep in mind on it one of which is that the motor is on the bottom of it and the wiring for that motor is inside a small little plastic compartment. So I would recommend not treating the machine very aggressively by pulling it over really rough terrain. Overall I like it it does everything that I want it to do. I do not use it for splitting whole grapple loads of wood. I do use it for resizing wood and I've used it on a couple of trees that have fallen down that were probably 8 or 10 inches in diameter and it handled that just fine I didn't have many problems with it. But you need to remember that it is a small electric splitter it is not a commercial gasoline splitter and if you get this thing and you think it is something like that well you're a darn fool. But if you get it with the understanding that it is a small splitter for small jobs I don't think you're going to have any trouble with it and if something breaks on it after the warranty period is up I don't think you're going to have many difficulties with it. I cannot comment on the company I haven't had to deal with the company but I can tell you that realistically there's going to be good reviews of how the company deals with service and there's going to be bad reviews on how the company deals with service and you know what that's pretty much true for any and every company. I hope you found this a little bit useful and maybe it'll help you out in some way. So here is the meat and potatoes of the whole summary of everything that I've said. Is it a good little splitter yes. Would I get it again, if for some reason I ever needed to yes. Was it difficult to assemble, no. Apart from the fact that a fair amount of the parts of it are really heavy. Do I have any trouble using it, no. Do I think that it is a good little machine for someone to have that burns wood that needs to resize pieces of wood and want something they can have in their basement to do it. Absolutely. UPDATE: I have had this little splitter for some time now and it has seen really quite a lot of use. I have not had any problems with it and it continues to perform very well for what it is. In looking at a lot of the reviews for this splitter I think a lot of folks that give negative reviews expect a little hydraulic splitter with a little electric motor to perform like a big hydraulic splitter with a big gas motor. To those individuals I have this to say. "Wake up and smell the coffee!" This is a small machine for small jobs it is about the equivalent of most other small electric log splitters on power. I have not had any hydraulic leaks I have not had any part failures I think it is a great little splitter for what it is.

Very nice splitter. It took a while for me to accept electric over gas powered. We live in Northern Minnesota and most of the trees are soft wood, ie pine or birch. It splits these easily and probably would split hard wood like oak too but as of now I have tried that. It was easy to assemble, took about an half hour. Good quality, I am extremely happy with this purchase.

When first put together the instructions state to fill with 1.6 gallons of fluid and run it back and forth a few times, and add fluid as needed. Why can’t they say to add another 0.4 gallons, because it took a full 2 gallons to fill it. It cavitated on the first extension with 1.6 gallons, so I knew it would take much more to fill it. That is a minor complaint, just make sure you have enough fluid to fill it. So on first usage it was very weak, and the pump stalled out with any significant sized log! My 6.5 ton splitter was better than this! It was late evening on a Friday, so I went inside and looked up how a 2 stage pump worked. I found a good video that explained there should be an adjustment for the high pressure stage. I emailed the company, and didn’t get a reply until late Monday. They did have a response on the adjustment, with one sentence of instruction that looked like translated Chinese, and a short video that was in Chinese, but it did show where the adjustment was and to turn it counter clockwise. Thanks to the video I had found on my own, I already had it working before receiving the reply. After the adjustment to get the high pressure stage to work the thing was a beast! It split some 14” dry wood with no problem. So it gets a star off for not working properly when it arrived, and for not including instructions on how to do the adjustment if needed. Other than that I like it, and it seems well built. I do agree with most other quirks that others have mentioned in the reviews, but those quirks are not enough to drop my review any further. I don’t know if anyone else mentioned getting smacked by the handle when it returns, but it stings so be careful of that! It also states that it can handle up to 20” long and 14” around. A log that long and big would probably be in the way of the handle so that you would not be able to engage it, although that is not an issue for me as I cut 16”.

I rarely leave reviews, but in this case I made an exception. This unit exceeded my expectations! I tested it for hours before I concluded anything about it. For an electric motor, this machine produces a lot of splitting force and never once would it budge, hesitate or stall. Two thumbs up! There is one small negative, but not for the machine. The small negative is for the product description. Nowhere does it say (I could not find it) that the unit needs almost two gallons of hydraulic fluid. I got one gallon only, because Amazon suggested the bundle. The manual says the hydraulic reservoir is 1.6 gallons, but it does not account for the hoses and the empty cavities of a brand new system. So, following the manual, I put 1.6 gallons of hydraulic fluid in it and it worked alright, but was slow when a lot of splitting force was required. Then I checked the dipstick and the oil level. Bone dry. Whaaat? So, I filled it up until the dipstick showed full. Altogether, it took 1.9 gallons of hydraulic fluid to reach full. After filling it up, the machine turned into a beast. Strong, fast, performing like a champion... I was very impressed. I have quite a lot more splitting to do, but now I look forward to it with this machine. My splitting axe might get a little rusty. 🙂

I've had this splitter for a couple of weeks and I have used it for about 6 hours of splitting. So far, I am impressed. It has worked like a champ. Positive aspects: It uses no gasoline and engine oil. It is easy to move from place to place. It is (mostly) easy to assemble. See below for more detail. It can split 16" dried hardwood, even pieces with knots. Negative aspects: It is very low to the ground, so there is a lot of back bending. (I'm 6' 4" tall!) The front leg support is close to the hauling handle, so it is easy to have it bang into the back of one's leg. (I have two scabs from doing this twice.) The ram stops at about 6 inches from the wedge and many pieces, especially for stringy wood, don't completely split. (Backing off and putting in another piece of wood between the partly split piece and the ram solves this problem.) A couple of the hydraulic lines are below the ram, and it looks possible for a split piece to fall on a line and damage it. (I have paid close attention to this and so far I've not had any close calls.) The installation instructions are mostly pictorial. They include some specific torque ranges for some of the bolts and hydraulic connections. The hydraulic connections require a torque wrench with a crescent head. I used a standard crescent wrench for both of these after using a torque wrench on another piece of hardware to estimate what 50 N-m and 80 N-m felt like. So far, so good -- I've had no hydraulic leaks and the piston assembly is firmly attached to the frame. I needed exactly 2 gallons of AW 32 hydraulic oil from Home Depot. I filled till the dipstick showed oil (took about 1.5 gallons), ran the piston back and forth a couple of times, and then repeated several times. There was considerable air in the lines until I got to 2 gallons. It's been fine since. I use a 50 foot very heavy gauge extension cord from my garage to my wood pile. Splitting works about as you would expect. There is a bit of whine from the pump, so I use ear plugs while working. The diameter limitation is basically from the wedge, which is 6 1/2 inches high. Like other folks reported, larger sized pieces (14-18 inch diameter) can be split by working in from the edge. I managed to split several pieces of oak with knots in them and a couple of 14 inch diameter crotch pieces by using the edge-inward method. I wish that the splitter was about 6 inches higher than it is, but then the wheelbase would have to be quite a bit wider for stability. The splitter is quite stable as is -- it has never seemed like it would tip over even with very large pieces of wood. All of the stuff that I have split has been very dry. It is mostly oak, maple and a bit of cherry. The oak and especially cherry are stringy, and those are the ones that won't quite split all the way as I noted above.

My husband loves this thing. The first time he used it, I got a text while I was at work that said "I am 100% happy!" We have a wood-burning insert in our fireplace and a lot of trees on our lot, so something is always getting trimmed or cut down, and we wanted a reasonably priced electric log splitter to make it easier to split the mountains of wood. My husband was going to go with a much less powerful cheaper option, but I urged him to get a better one. After reading lots of reviews and doing a bunch of research, he chose this one, and this thing has been worth every penny! There were a few bad reviews that had me concerned, but my husband could see what they were doing wrong and was not worried at all. He has put huge logs through it and it has handled everything easily. The best part is the ease of just plugging it in and having it quietly do the job. I tried it out myself on a few logs, and it's easy for me to use as well. It's not too heavy, so it's easy to move around. VERY happy with this purchase!

The good: 1. Assembly was very easy and I was impressed with the build quality. 2. It's packaged very well. 3. Operation is very easy. 4. It's pretty quick, when it works. 5. Auto-return function is great. The bad: 1. The ram shaft tils to the side during operation... I think this will cause a leak in its seal eventually. 2. The frame bends slightly. This worried me greatly, since I've seen images from other customers that have cracks develop after continuous use.... I wouldn't want to be near hydraulic fluid-filled machine when this happens. 3. The motor is very loud, even after you get rid of most of the air in lines. 4. It's very difficult to get rid of the air in lines, since there's no venting valve and you have to do it through the same place you fill it up... so air bubbles tend to spray hydraulic fluid out while you're trying to fill it up. 5. Hydraulic lines are exposed, right under where logs tend to fall of, since the carriage bed area is too narrow to protect them. The ugly: For logs 8" and under, it did just fine, but anything over that, it would stall out. It's supposed to be able to split logs up to 14" in diameter... Perhaps California Coast Live Oak is too much for it, since it's stringy and knotty. I just started a returning process for it -- too bad I'm out of $50 worth of hydraulic fluid because of this, since I wouldn't want to re-use it anywhere else (in case there are metal particulates from this machine).

Great splitter for its size. Works as advertised on logs up to 15". Well-made frame & durable rack. I like that it is small enough to load into a truck bed by myself. (However it is a heavy lift.). Use type 32 Hydraulic fluid if using in colder climates. The heavier fluid 46 gets thick & will pop breaker in the colder temps on start up.

Works like a charm. You can split larger pieces, just takes a bit of patience. It is a advertised - 14 tonne

Wow it’s brilliant very happy really does the job easy to assemble so glad we got one great price

great little splitter. No it does not have the power of a large gas splitter but I have both and this is a great compact alternative that can be powered by many small generators if needed. you just have to learn how to split it and not expect it to rip through nots

Excellent item, does the job verg well.

The splitter was easy to assemble, and I was impressed with its stability. With a little help, I was able to move it up several steps to the spot where it is used. I especially appreciated the lever-action control, which eliminates bending. The splitter works well on logs of all sizes and has only had to split some logs twice due to heavy knots. I had a couple of questions and an issue. SuperHandy customer service helped promptly and even called for follow-up several times - very impressive. I would definitely recommend this splitter.