14 Ton Electric Log Splitter - 120V Corded, 20" Max Log Length

Easy to put together, I tested it out on a piece of elm with knots, my 6.5 ton couldn't split but this one did

14 Ton Electric Log Splitter - 120V Corded, 20" Max Log Length

nothing

The Body Flexes. I imagine one day this will become hairline cracks and being the fluid reservoir will form leaks that i cant weld closed.

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”.