Hey guys how's it going so i was able to obtain this piece of equipment thanks to jason uh, helping hook me up with this one. Also it is a log splitter of unknown vintage, i'm going to guess probably 20 years old. That has been sitting here for a long period of time, judging by the wood pile behind it has not moved or anything done with it and the rust that is on it. So she's been sitting in a while.

It's like my guess, is: maybe somebody maybe it blew an engine and somebody fabricated this engine onto it because of the custom exhaust system and the custom gas tank and bracket setup that has been welded to it. It does look like it's been bleeding out some oil for quite a long long time, not sure. What's going on with that, let's go see if it turns yeah. That's good! I'm not feeling much compression, though yeah.

It's not much of a that should be putting up a better fight than that, so it may or may not have issues but uh. That's the fun part of it right get to go figure that out a little toe behind. What's the tonnage of it. 22..

That's a decent setup. It actually looks like it tilts up too so we're going to go. Get this on the trailer, bring this home towards a little bit more comfortable to work on see if we can resurrect it and bring it back to life. Okay: let's go check the gas tank, there's nothing in it! Oh yeah! It's got that vintage smell to it.

Actually, it's off of a snow blower. He said he didn't care about denting his tractor. Let's see how this goes for us, oh yeah hold it come on. Don't need that so so, oh sometimes your wheelbase yeah, it's just a little off, but you got ta work with what you got that was smooth uh yeah.

I think a 4x4 can fix that fixed. Let's get a better idea of what we got now. We've got our up on lifting to see. What's going on, so it looks like they made a little control panel.

I think that's a start choke and we think that would be running off cobbled muffler and a bunch of bracketry. It looks like i said it probably had a different engine set up, somebody, it probably blew up or whatever the issue was and then switched it all over to this engine. They probably had laying it around not have a pull start, so you got to go electric start only. I don't know if that's where the control valve would have been yeah.

Maybe that looks pretty stock right. I don't know what the hose going over the top of it - maybe maybe not, but we're looking at it. It does tilt up. I would figure, there's got to be some way to lock it in the down position, though.

Maybe something was here, there's a hole down in the center there. This should be the tank for the oil and the filter. I say we probably get into the engine, see what is going on with the engine, whether it runs or not, and what it needs to get it running or what it failed for you get a test light on the battery, so you've got any power left in That and we'll get that cover off. We get up and standing we'll start digging in it.

Let's go see that battery is stoned yet i'm looking at it. It's got a bulge sticking out of each side of it, so usually we're in a cold climate. Here we have winters and if they lose their charge, the water, i think the water and acids separate, i'm not sure that, but anyway, the water will freeze and it'll expand and crack the plates internally. It's that big bulge you see on the side of it.

I'm pretty much thinking that battery is junk i like to hold down, but we'll pop that out of there we'll throw it on the charger just for shits and giggles, see if you get anything for a charge and we'll move on, so you've got a little tab During popped out of the battery, you could probably get an idea when this was last used. I don't know if the maybe the serial number tells us something - maybe that's 09 30 second week, maybe not sure yeah, i'm gon na throw that on a charger not giving her like. I said all that much uh hope for coming back nothing. I noticed here.

I took the battery terminals off, it has lamp cord or speaker cord for the ground cable. I think it's uh, that's a indication of what things we're going to go find. This is going to be a fun project. The air cleaner cover off see we have a nest in the tins.

I don't see anything from the exhaust side of the fan. It's a good sign. Just a little mud wasp nest right. There looks pretty good see if our throttle moves.

It does. Let's go see if it's got oil on it, let's see what that has done. First, that looks decent enough to run it or spin it. Let's get the plug out of it, we'll drill a little bit of oil down the plug hole and it's pretty chalky, pretty chalky and pretty corroded.

It's just weather got to it or ran with the choke on a lot. That's pretty uh goobered up at least it came out right. This is just two-stroke oil that you would mix with gas remix. Let that kind of soak down around the rings a little bit spin around.

It's got a bit of a clank to it, but it might have a decompression valve in it. I see we get a jumper pack we'll get to those leads hit. The button see what we get. You probably should take that coupler off the oil pump too.

The hydraulic pump and get that out of the circuit, we'll just spin it a little bit see what we get. Listen to things see if compression comes back, that's the biggest all right, let's see if any of this stuff works, nope you impressed. Let's get rid of that ground and we'll go for it, something right on the engine. Let's go for that bolt right there, let's go for we got power going to it, yeah! Nothing! Let's go get a screwdriver.

Actually we just go right to the lead. It's a good sounding starter, popping out the top pretty good. I wish you threw a compression tester in there. I never saw any of that watching the floor.

It's got like nothing like 10.. That starter sounds good. It tries again it might have a decompression, but usually you get like 50 or 60 psi. I didn't exactly think it was going to run right away.

Did you let's go, throw a plug in it, we'll flip that switch up to the run position? We see if getting spark where'd the plug, go the oil tank's, making some gurgling noises. Let's see if we get anything yep, it's got spark try dribbling a little bit of fuel in here see if he does anything. Ah, no, let's uh. Let's get that coupler off.

I don't want to be running that oil pump until we look into that setup. Let's see if we can get the allen screw loosened up and get this collar to slide back and disconnect the pump probably should have done that to start with, because there was any water in the tank would have been a good time to drain it. Before i started circulating it through the system hindsight, you know sometimes there's two grub screws one after another. Now that's good.

Let's go see if there's one on the other side: yep got another one there i could smell bad gas and the carb is going to be pretty goobered up just take them right now we might have to shoot some oil in there to get them to head To slide, we should probably take a a wire wheel, real quick, let's see if this does anything, take a wire wheel, real quick, clean some of this rust off and see. If we can tap this, this way, actually a little scotch break, see if that does it, the one that i didn't loosen up is the one that's moving on the pump figures right. It's just those two grub screws right, get some shoot some lube in there. Hmm.

Sometimes link does matter, let's try, spinning it make sure we're good to go. Yeah that'd be fun all right. Where were we? We were going to have a little bit of fun with gasoline about that. Much, let's see if we get anything it blew some mouse crap out too.

I don't know if it showed up or not somebody's, not happy. They just got launched, that's a a wasp, so we got a live bees nest in it somewhere. That's a good thing! Yeah! I think it's cool in here right now. Sometimes you got ta.

Do it twice just because give her a little bit more? Yes, it's got decompression valve. That's why you don't get a good reading on it see you see, the exit of the exhaust does seem to be puffing. I don't know if that's leaking right around the muffler, if that was just leaking right there or if it's got a leak of a blown head gasket. That would also make a little compression number two possibly has a blowing head gasket.

Well, let's get into the carb, get this thing out of the way we got ta get the float ball off. I have a feeling, that's gon na, be pretty nasty and we'll see what we got to do with getting the carb to function and kind of move from there get it running we'll see if it's got a blown head gasket. If so, we'll dig into that part of it so whoops looking really tight, it looks pretty clean. That's one of those! Let's see if we sneak that out of there without killing the gasket, it's actually two gaskets, there's one.

Let's see if i get that apart, that's one and there's one that's kind of like a not a dampener that would you would call it a baffle, especially on something that shakes real bad kind of keeps the fuel from splashing around it's gon na be a fun One to get back in there huh all right, so that part is actually looks pretty clean. But if you knew you didn't we didn't take it apart, it would have been nasty. That's the way it works. That's spotless actually looks like somebody put a new carburetor on it.

Let's see what the needle and seat look like this is. Fuel did smell, pretty rancid that all looks really good. It's probably about the best we've ever taken apart a little bit of crap on the base of the car, but everything else looks pretty good, so it runs a fuel pump down here. So you can put the fuel tank wherever we want.

This is poly flow or tiger on tubing. We can get rid of that and we got ta figure out where to go mount a gas tank, but let's we could probably put it back together and get some gas in the carbon see she'll run off the carb. I don't see it really even an issue to take that apart and soak it or clean it. It looks pretty decent throttle seems good.

I don't know. What's going on back here, it's probably not a good idea that getting stuck in the way of the throttle sticks broke a screw off. Yeah your fuel mix still turns all right. Let me go cobble something up actually that battery's been on the charge for about 20 minutes.

Let's just see if it's doing anything first to see if the charger lights it up, which it does, we take one side off if it lights up. That means we're getting something in it, but look at that actually surprised me i'll. Let her go cook for a little bit see if we get any heat on. It seems all right, good, we'll let that do its thing.

I should decide. Let's go look at some other stuff before assessment. First, let's go see what we got for oil in it. If there's any oil in it again, it had that big puddle underneath it where it was so it was either engine oil or hydraulic oil right and it's got a dipstick built into it.

It does actually looks really clean. Let's go wipe that often it's got oil in it low. It's actually got to go by well, the pistons all the way collapsed, so that would be the fullest. The tank would be the piston, this being the piston.

So when this piston is all the way out, this cylinder is going to fill up a hydraulic fluid and it's going to lower the hydraulic level in the tank with the pistons. All the way in all the oil is going to squirt back to the tank. Half the oil is going to swerve back to the tank and bring the level up a little bit. This has hydraulics on both sides, so there's hydraulic fluid on both sides of it with one direction on the on the return is the difference between the inside piece of the cylinder and the outside of the cylinder, the piston and the cylinder, because the the shaft going Through it takes up some volume when the piston travels up, there's nothing but fluid on the other side of it too much information.

Let's see, if you look inside, i just want to make sure there's no water and it's hard to tell. Actually, it looks pretty good a little cloudy, but it is gear oil. It's not like it's. I am just going to go.

Take a squeegee, not a squeegee, a um turkey baster, i'm going to draw from the bottom of the tank real, quick and we'll put it in the pan, just make sure there's no water sitting on the bottom down there. That's all i'm concerned about always at the bottom in this corner is the lowest part of the tank, so hmm there, it goes a little bit of crap in there because it was afraid of it. It had some water in it. I fired it up, i'd contaminate.

All the lines and that's a pain he has to get it all out of the system if there was water just sitting in the bottom of the tank, it's a good time to go, get it because the rest of the system hasn't been filled with it. Yet i don't know if this has a drain on it probably wouldn't be a bad idea. Let me go see if i have any fluid it's a little, it's a little contaminated, but it's not terrible. I've never seen any water in it a little bit of dirt, but that could have been in the turkey baster too, not in the tank and going around my stash.

That should do it. I believe this is the draw for the pump that takes the oil up from then the filter side of it. This side is the return. Yes, it's a little cloudy.

Okay, we got it. Somebody use it not sure how much it takes. So i was proactive by having two trays ready to go. Let's get done changing the oil, my parents, sequoia, it holds eight quarts, i'm like yeah it'll be fine.

Let's get up to the level. I have to scatter that scattered we get another pan. Hopefully this doesn't take three i'll check. My stash, let's see, if i have an oil filter, that'll, fit that if not i go get one tomorrow.

I didn't find a filter. I'm gon na find a muffler, possibly that we can use a little kitty wampus. So you can straighten it out to get the rest of the oil out on the left-hand side. See right about.

There looks level. Well, that's draining. We've got a couple things we can chase, i'm not sure which way i want to go. We got ta figure out either the solenoid is no good or the starter button is no good for why it won't crank uh.

I wan na check this charging system, so it's got a regulator. Rectifier right here. These two white wires coming in come off the front charging system. Ac ac, come in dc on the middle wire goes back out.

That's that purple wire going out. Somehow this has to get back to the positive side of the battery. I think it should be switched. I'm not sure if it'll have a parasitic drain, if it's not switched, i'm not sure on that, maybe not, but all the wires turn to white down here.

I'm not sure what is hooked up to what i do not see anything going back to the uh hot post. Possibly this is it, but i'm not sure this might just be what feeds the power to the switch to fire. This relay so we're gon na go chase. Some of that stuff out plus.

I need to just go bolt the carburetor up, so i think i'm gon na get the carb taken care of and maybe we'll chase a little bit electrical without still dribbling out the bottom. Okay, considering all those wires are white - and i don't know what goes to where, because it's hard to trace, let's go cut all the tie wraps off and open them up. Let's see if we can trace some of this stuff out, i'm going to put power back up to the lead, so that was ground 12 volts then we'll put a test light on it, we'll just kind of probe around and see what we got going where making That one park out again all right test light we're just going to hook the ground side. Anything that has 12 volts positive should light the light up like that.

Let's go see, we have anything over on the push button, let's see where it goes, so that should be ground. This side should be ground. This size, slides you get 12 volts, i'm going to push the button, that's working there we go good. I think, if anything is a switch, it seems like uh every time the light lights up it does fire the solenoid.

It just needs to be found a little little. Let's go, kill spark that made life easy. I think we can do a little bit better on the muffler, so let's change things up a little bit and get rid of. What's there check this thing out angle, the head, however, you want it yeah, they even had it on backwards too.

The air was going. The other direction, we'll save that for some other projects, anything we can work. We can weld weld it on too. I don't know if that's where we want to kind of be nice.

If we kind of like exit it underneath the machine somewhere, we could run some piping down, get it out of our way. We still got to find a spot for the gas tank, that's out of the way and remember like when we're splitting wood yeah. So this thing we either split wood like it is, and it rotates down this way, so you want to be able to kind of reach over the machine, get a log on there and hit the lever be nice. That was, i don't know you grab it from the other side like where would you operate this machine from you're kind of reaching over on this side? Right, i had to ponder that a little bit any thoughts.

I would think this would be the side you want to operate on, but i don't know if you want to be leaning over it firing that lever. You know having your gut kind of like in this area up and down's, not too bad, but if it's in trying to use it like this, hmm should probably look at a picture of how it was normally assembled with the other engine yeah we're kind of on Our own, the engine that was on there was a uh like a lawnmower engine vertical shaft, going out and totally different shape. So this is kind of getting us. I wish we can rotate that a little bit.

I do not see. We can probably loosen that collar up turn it down some, but then we're going to be smashing into the the governor set up yeah, i don't know if i figure we could put the gas tank here, they may have had it up top. They kind of. I see this bracket sitting up here.

I don't know if that's what the gas tank was connected to, i don't see that being a good set. I'd rather have it on the frame than vibrating on the top of the motor, but we can't have a plastic gas tank with exhaust shooting right out of it. I don't know if we got the battery here, maybe like that, if we can do that, might not be a bad day idea. Hmm, you see very piping that kind of fit on this and see we can cobble together, and i don't want it because that's kind of in your face right.

You should probably throw the air cleaner back on it too, just for uh claiming its space. So i think that's where the gas tank originally was even got a coal cut out for it. I wonder if the fuel pump failed and they went and stuck the fuel pump fuel tank up top so that it would just gravity feed to it. But again that's going to be no good and then the batteries here, so i the best, would probably kind of like i don't know if we can get it down like that exit underneath the machine.

But the problem is you're still gon na have a hot piece of pipe kind of running next to the the side of the battery. I don't know if that's great just too bad, it didn't exit. You know out that side of it would have been so much easier to to deal with it. I think maybe we'll try it right here.

I don't think this is plastic, so we got to kind of stay away from that. We also need to stay away from the gas tank for obvious reasons. If we can get it, i'm guessing right about there that way. This kind of protects us a little bit.

If you, if you go to bump into it, you know you're not going to get it in the cookie nads. Please even dig up again, like i said, for piping found out. This is a j2 from a vw bug, exhaust kind of looking at that to get it away from you, but again, you'll be reaching over that to go grab the lever and all, i think, we're still better off, maybe just trying to get it right there. I don't mean anything that threads into that, yet you have to run the home depot, that's probably an hour hour and a half later, let's go see, let's get a little bit of warmth to it.

Let's go see if that battery has any kind of life to it. This is a load tester, it's. Basically it's got a big toaster built into it and you heat it up. It's got a needle, you hit it it's itchy junk.

I let it charge a little bit more, but that should hold in about the green or to that yellow area right there, depending how many amps are in it and she's just coming right down to four volts, not holding, i didn't expect it would. But then again i thought the carburetor was going to be dirty too right. You think the chances are. We could stand this thing up without killing ourselves for a shot.

I kind of like to see how something sets. This might be a very bad idea as long as it catches a video. I guess, i'm still alive. We can kind of look at the controls a little bit better yeah.

I think i'd be good, probably that's where you're gon na use it most. I don't know. I really really haven't used a log splitter, a bunch in my life. Would you use it more in that setup or laying down it could be easy to roll the logs into a plus when they split? Where do they fall off? If it's in that position, they leaned on your feet that might be a better, so you're not going to be anywhere near the exhaust you're just going to work the the lever here.

I think that sits a little bit more upright too. Yet it's just rubbing and that'll stand square. All right get rid of this! That noise you're hearing in the background. It's an air conditioner, that's humming, all right! So i need a filter and i need an elbow and it's like 10 30 at night.

So i'm not gon na be able to get either one of those right now. So i may take a break and we'll pick it back up tomorrow. Won't make any difference to you. This can seem seamless.

I wonder where the oil leaked out. It still had a bunch in the tank. You know it could be the pump. Also right we fire it up.

You may find that the pump's oozing somewhere, hopefully that stuff works. Yes, that'd be easy for controls, easy to get to that stuff, easy to reach around and grab the the choke. Is you got to grab by hand the other one's throttle? I thought it was joke, that's throttle, so that would be your choke and the battery set up. I probably have a battery.

I can use a good decent used. One. The batteries have a pull start. I think it seems like a bit of an overkill, especially like a log splitter you're gon na use it for what you know for a month and then you're gon na go put it away the rest of the time.

Well, the battery's, mostly gon na, be junk. There's a tag i don't think gives up a year or anything, and then there's got to be some sort of lock pin in that hole that went to here. Let me probably make something up with a quick pin that goes in there. I don't think at least in my state you need a license plate on these.

You can tow it behind your car. I don't think you need to have anything, maybe that's what the vin number or whatever, if you have to register it, to pull. Look at that it seems like a big mousetrap and watch out like i'm slamming down on me a couple of wires, i'm looking at so this is going to be probably the kill. Let's go see where that goes there.

It goes yeah. So that's going to the toggle switch, so that's the kill! It's going to ground out the coil and shut it off this. The purple wire that purple wire right. There is going to be your charge power coming out, and this more than likely is a low oil shut off which isn't connected.

Neither so nothing is charging the battery back up, as i thought so. We're gon na have to go figure out. First of all, if it does put anything out and if so a way to uh tie it back to the positive of the battery without having to drain okay, we got ourselves a filter. You know date it because it's got no hour meter.

I think somebody will understand that in 10 years and we got muffler parts except for i screwed up i'll, show you why in a second, so i was hoping to have a pipe extension on that that can get welded on this gets threaded onto here and then, When you got the other elbow there, we can kind of tweak it and move it around where we wanted, unfortunately, one inch and that one's seven eighths, i didn't see it. It was wrapped up in the plastic. It looked good to me so that does not go in there. I think we can still work around it because i'm not going back to the store, i figure we'll clean it up, we'll weld it we'll try to find a a happy, medium say somewhere in between the plastic on this and the plastic on the gas tank.

Probably should favor this more than a gas tank and worst case scenario. What we can do is we'll change that pipe out. If i find it's really an issue, i can lengthen this pipe and, at a later date, move the muffler further away from harm's way. All right, so, let's get some grinding down some cleaned up, get attack or two on that you could even put on a little bit of an angle and get that connected.

Let's jump over that gas tank yeah muffler's all welded up solid now, so that wants to go right there, just because that's where they made that hole. I think we should probably take like angle. What's that piece of angle, that was on top we'll use this and we'll go something like that on one side and give it a lip on this side. So, let's, let's just weld something, we'll clean this up, we'll weld a support.

This way, wherever it lines up we'll kind of push it against it and we'll weld one going the other way just kind of key the tank around and probably what we can do is maybe we'll drill some holes and put some just big fat tie wraps around It and if we need to take the tank off to go drain it or something just cut the tire wraps and let it free but to be supported by some brackets. So so so so, and you didn't think i was going to paint it did you and they painted well, i just said paint it. So don't you hate people just do that and leave that stabber on there, no more stabber and the battery's got about another three hours of charge, time on it see if it improved at all and it's in the bad, but it's not as bad as it was. I think we'll use it for now.

If we have to fire it up, throw a jumper pack on it. I still want to replace this double lamp. Cord thing, i don't have anything at the moment. Let's just see if this it's got enough to crank it good scrounge around for a bungee cord.

I found this one i think we'd get that knot out of there might be the right length if i get them out of there, don't fit the hole. Let's open that up all right, what else we got we get a gas line from there around to wherever the fuel pump is somewhere over here it's in there somewhere get the copper back off. I think we're ready to put some gas in it, but i think i want to lower the mouse trap that doesn't bite us. It might knock you out a little bit.

So my question is: is the fuel pump going to work? I guess we're going to find out and, if anything leaks who knows if this this tank is in it good, let's go call it right there for now, let's get her to kick over. Choke is on throttle just give her a little. That's full throttle it's off. Let's give her just a tad choke is on keys on.

Oh, you got no crank, let's go prime it a little bit. It runs and dies after the prime because still letting the fuel ball fill up, so i should run a die for a second run and stay running a low and a high whatever up still too. So that's the idle speed that one there you go, i'm not sure which one's which a little too lean, i'm gon na richen them both up a little idle a little bit smart. I don't have the air cleaner on it, yet so the air cleaner is going to mix it up a little bit too.

I'm just trying to get it close. We could dial it in again later, kill it all right good. She runs decent. It's pretty quiet too, with that muffler, it seems like it'll, be fine.

Why so far we're good to see how it is after about half an hour all right, a couple things i want to try real quick is. I want to get a test light on that pink wire coming out of there and we're going to fire it back up and see if any power comes out of it. Looking at that right, there see if we get any power coming out of the charging system. Uh, i'm just gon na double check.

My test light works, it does yeah, so no power is coming out of the charging system, so it could either have a bad rectifier or the charging system. The magneto itself is got issues not that big of a deal the engine does not require power to run. It doesn't need the charging system to run that that's done on its own coil and nothing else demeans power other than the starter so having to put a charger on the battery. Maybe once in a while with a good battery.

Who knows that's something. That's really kind of an issue right now could chase. It could be this. If so, i may have one of those that are easier.

I'm not going to be that concerned about it. Let's go. Take the coupler slide that back into place so that the pump is working, throw some fluid in it see what she does. I know i see we got about two two and a half gallons out of it.

So half of this should do it put your bits on them. If i'm going to spill it, i'm going to say pretty good, it's the air thing that gets you right. Paint's like the hardest one try pulling paint out of a paint can easy got. Ta kind of rotate them up.

If you get it there, you go we're air can go back in so halfway up that, hopefully we fire up and all the oil that we saw leaked on the ground was from something else come on baby all right. I killed the power right now, all right, okay, so we'll wait and see. Maybe i just had a hose pop off and it leaked and it screwed them up we'll cycle at some and see we got. I do see like some weird actually looks almost like electrical tape is on there.

So far, so good only thing i think we need to address now - is gon na get some kind of lock on here. For this i'm sure there was something that went in there. It probably either had a pain or something that held it so see what we can come up with here. How about um i like something instead of having like a nut on it.

Let me just pull a pin on what about like a trailer hitch, uh pin. You know if, like the two inch receiver, let me see if i got one of them around me. We can like weld it on and set like a washer and put the pin in yeah one of these guys. What, if we go on the inside, if we were to take that and like weld it have it go across.

I actually think that shouldn't be sitting down like that. Neither right should i have a space. A couple inches, maybe we'll weld that up higher and we'll get something like a rubber bushing would be good, can get something like a little bit of damping on. So when you flip it down it slams onto a little bit of a bumper, let me see if we get like a maybe a shock.

The old car shock, the bushing for the eye bolt thing junk drawer shopping to drill something like that out, though, how about that one is the other one, just a bushing too or no that's part of it. Do we have two that are like that? Well, yes, we do so what if we were to do something like that too bad to wear a little snugger they're gon na fall off, possibly dig a little more, if not we'll go with those all right. If i find something different i'll bring you back, if not those are culprits unless you hammer one of those on, but if we use one of each, if we just take that stick it in hot water after we get the pin on we shove it on there. You don't want to come back off anyway.

All right, good idea, glad you thought of it. Don't forget that a couple of huge daddies you're going to need what the thickness of the metal on top and just a hair more. Let's call it like right. There probably would have been a good idea, but you know what i wonder: if we're going to cook it welding it though yeah we'll mock it up first, so we're going to weld that something like that underneath and hopefully this works there we go turn that turn.

I think i'll turn in some direction where you can get the pin in you know i think that'd be pretty good. We probably actually hammer that down a little more huh i'll make our mark where we want it. What would you leave a little room for a washer? You think that's good enough. I think i'll hold it.

The only thing i'm worried about is you tone it behind a car or something and bouncing along, and you don't want to go. Do one of those calm down? I heard you instantly dries too. When i looked at it, the position for one was still one was still not quite enough. It was still on a downhill slope, see how that does for us come on down there.

We go there's room for a wash, i don't think we're going to need it. That's pretty good squeaky, squeaky squeaky and our air gap is pretty even going across. Now it's heavy and slamming down, plus it just gives a little bit of cushion if you're running at that position too right all right. What time it is here we are at the cabin.

I was worried about not having any logs to split yeah. She called brian hey you guys logs, they can run through the splitter and i come to the camp, and this is laying across the path to the outhouse. That's about 12 inches in diameter. Let me get us one or two pieces to work with cold stuff turn the choke off.

Oh, oh, like it never happened. Let's see if that battery held up it's a d later, don't know which way's choked huh all right. Let's go put her up against the log with some low rpm see what it does and we'll build up from. There so seems like a work decent, but the air placement of the gas tank now we're looking at it in that position.

Kind of sucks, because there's no cage to catch anything that falls off and you basically you can be whacking off the side of the gas tank. So i think we're gon na go flip her up to horizontal, give her a couple shots that way and see how it does try it again. So we're really tested. Let's go against the grain that does pretty good.

That's a hard way to split wood. You wouldn't do that normally, i just want to screw around see how much snot it had under something with a lot of resistance. It seems like it does. Just fine, that's green wood too, literally, as you saw the water rushing out of it.

Well guys that worked out quite well as far as cost, i bought it for 200 bucks and we probably have about another 40 bucks in it. I think the only thing i bought was the elbows and the oil filter. I think the oil filter was like six. Eight bucks and the elbows is about 10 and whenever you want to consider the gear oil and the muffler that i already had in my stash or worse for about 240, what's it worth all done, my guess probably about 750 in my area, and it depends on The time of year, probably soon as you're going into the fall they're, probably worth more, especially if oil prices keep going up.

You know people want to switch over to burning wood, but i may hold on to this one for a little bit at least get the dead trees that i got at the camp cut up and split and whatever one they got laying around here doing the same. Well, i want to just take a second thank all you guys for just hanging out with me and that have a little fun wrenching on stuff hunting, the stuff down getting it out of where they are and resurrecting them and bringing them back to life. And we'll do it again sometime real soon, so with that i'm gon na sign off and thank you all for hanging out see you soon later so so now, second run out we're running for about 45 minutes no beeping everything seems to be working like it should We're about 10 feet of water hold on as you were. You.