Horse powered log splitter

[Wiley]

This came across my inbox and I thought that some here might enjoy seeing something different.

One horse power log splitter - SmokStak

Bests,
Wiley

OK, before some engineering type chimes in: It's a one horse powered log splitter but actually since the energy is stored in the flywheel it is probably closer to a ten or more ton splitter (WAG from size of flywheels and speed of rotation) But it is powered by one horse.

[v12spirit]

Re: Horse powered log splitter

Very interesting. One horse, ten ton splitter, thanks to the flywheel. This is very similar to a lesson I learned when I considered a steel oven; steel alone without thermal mass hardly reached pizza temps and lost it very fast, but a steel one with some thermal mass could exceed the pizza cooking temperature and needed sometime to cool to pizza temps. The thermal mass in a steel oven does the same thing the massive flywheel does in the splitter! Quite different applications, but the mass does the same in dynamics and thermodynamics IMHO.
Thanks for sharing.