🪵Harbor Freight Predator 20 Ton Log Splitter - Initial Review (First Impressions)🪵

I bought one several years ago very satisfied me and a friend race two other friends they had one of the brand name ones that cost three times as much most of them only cutting One Direction We race them filled up my truck in half the time they fill theirs very satisfied great log splitter for the money durable never had any trouble love it Best Best Buy for way less he does not use it very efficiently in the video if you have two guys one bringing the logs and feeding them one guy rolling them in off the side rack operating the splitter throwing them in the back of the truck with the logs already cut to length two guys can split a truck full of wood with sides on the truck as high as the cab they can feel it in less than 45 minutes if it is done efficiently again love it Best Buy great durable machine

That's so cool how it splits both ways!

I have this splitter for 2 years now. Probably split 7 cords with it last year and the year before. Will start this years splitting tomorrow. Great splitter for the price. One drawback I found is the cleanout. Woos chunks are hard to get out around the ends of the cylinder. I have a few videos on this splitter myself. New subscriber from Oregon.

It's really nice that it splits both directions, no wasted motion. I've worked on a couple of different log splitters, Barreto and some other brand (I think from Tractor supply). The Barreto ones are solid, the only real problem we had with those was the dealer assembled them and delivered them to us, but didn't bother to pack the wheel bearings! So we had a bearing blow and a wheel fall off. The off brand one had the control valve mounted to the cylinder, and it got broken multiple times, so would not recommend that style. Also that's awesome that harbor frieght sent you that, get those free tools dude!

that cat sprayed you at 1:13 of the video. Nice review of the splitter.

Back in the 80's we bought the main cylinder, hoses couplers, fluid and valve and built a log splitter on a piece if I beam mounted to an axle. Welded a piece of 1/2" steel with flanges on one end of the beam and mounted the main cylinder to the other end. Don't know how much the stuff would be now, but back then we did it for around $250 bucks. Instead of using a small engine to power it we quick coupled the hydraulic hoses up to the back of our old John Deere "A" model tractor and used its pump to power everything. We'd run the tractor so slowly it always sounded like it was about to die (If you've ever heard an old 2 cylinder JD idling you know the sound, LOL) and it had more than enough power to split anything we could put on it, even knotty old sweet gum logs.

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Awesome video i look foward to videos

Good review. I plan on buying the 5 ton to start with. Budget wise. I'm off grid living also. Thanks for information about the splitter. Enjoy your wood splitting season

Someone else had that same issue about a month ago. Sorry I can’t remember who it was! Issue with seal.

Hey man, I just got one of these splitters used but the backward split is very weak compared to the forward split. Where should i look first? I'm not too familiar with these machines. Thank you.

That wood all looks pretty well seasoned. Hope you have some green wood as well to load the stove with at night.

Since you said you live in the desert SW, I assume you are at high-ish altitude. Did you have to buy and install the high altitude jet for the carburetor? The manual said you needed to for above 5,000 ft to get better efficiency from the engine.

Derek, what state are you in? You said the southwest high desert. I bet we aren’t that far apart. Thanks for the video, I will be subscribing!

What’s the awesome feature that the hydraulic handle has or hydraulic pump has?

It’s a split fire log splitter, that’s awesome

$1,000!

I like SuperHandy log splitter better