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  • Horse powered log splitter

    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.

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    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.
    Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
    I forgot who said that.

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