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Bought a 22 Ton Huskee from TSC on sale for $1000. Towed it 35 miles at 55mph behind Corolla. Split a couple of pickup loads of dry (stored in barn two years) soft maple. Engine didn't seem to notice easy stuff, grunted on crotches, big knots but kept on through. Gas tank holds about 2hours at full throttle. I deliberately cut pieces pretty small because I could! New soapstone stove, don't know what to expect to fire and refire it.
Disappointed in Briggs engine using oil and amount to add between dipstick holes would need a turkey baster to add just the right amount!
Sure beats hand splitting and I know this whole wood burning business can't compete with electric geothermal heat, but I have 50 ton of trees to get rid of. Just a report: Leonard
 
Well the engine is new so it may use a little oil until its broke in. You should change the oil after 5 or so hours of running it. Thats what we use to do with a new motor, but maybe it dosent even matter these days. Good luck. J
 
After breaking several sludge hammer handles, and chasing wedges around the wood pile, I decided I needed a splitter since I heat my house with only wood. My work got rid of a large trash compactor. I got permission to take it home. I even got a 8 in. I beam For it from work. I made a electric splitter. It has two three inch dia.cylinders, I mounted them on top of each other. With the five horse electric three phase mnotor, I needed a phase convertor for my single phase 220v. I have snice split many cords of wood with it. Stan
 
On the oil use. Did not put synthetic it it for the first oil fill did ya?

You need to run regular oil in it for a while and then change to synthetic. Rings will often not seat if synthetic is first used.
 
Electric-geothermal heat can be very costly in areas with high electric-rates and severe cold - so don't be so hard on wood burning. Geothermal is not always such a great deal. If it was, I'd install it.

I heat 100% with wood and am also on 100% solar electric. My house and barn both have wood furnaces, but in my house I've also got a soap-stone wood stove. We use it when it cool out, but not quite cold enough to fire up the big furnace. I've got the biggest Hearthstone EPA rated stove. It was a learning curve for me to use, after being more accustomed to older type burners. It does not take big wood, and it's hard to get a roaring fire in it. But, once going, it is amazingly efficient.
One sidenote. I use a large three-point hitch splitter on my tractor, along with a large PTO pump and love it. Nice thing is, if I cut a huge tree somewhere, I can back the splitter right up to it, and split on site. Not quite so easy with a trailer splitter.
 
Well since we use one of those outside wood furnaces, I split very little wood. If it will go in a 24"x24" door it is not split. The door is actually 27x27 and about 50" deep for length I can put in. 36-45" works good fits right and saves a lot of sawing.
 
I would have never considered synthetic oil. Since this is the newest of my several air cooled engines that I feed 10W-40 for years, I will try the synthetic 30 weight after the 5 hours breakin period. Whatever is in the engine was supplied by the TSC assembler, probably from Speeco manufacturer. We are totally grid electric and heating can run as high as $250/month with summer airconditioning around $200/month. I have elderly parents (90 & 94) living with us and they really want/need the heat...around 73-74F. But we had no backup heat for power outages...so stepping back 70 years in time when I carried wood to the cookstove anytime my mother yelled out the door! Leonard
 
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