v smart log splitter

you can see from this collection of logs wehave here. these are just tree trunks that have just been cut up from certain lengths.now when you do this, you would like to have the lengths here. the right length for yourwood burning stove or your fireplace or whatever so cutting them to the right length is animportant thing. if you look over here, you can see we have a couple of logs that areactually too long, so we may have to take a chain saw and cut these in half before weuse them on a splitter. the other thing is we like to have the logs cut so that the cuttingface is perpendicular to the long axis. you can see they will fit into the machine muchbetter that way. we don’t want to have slanted cuts. you can see this one has a pretty badcut and so we are going to have to be careful

where we cut that one. finally, we want tobe sure that these logs don’t have nails driven into them some place, so we want toinspect them before we cut them to be sure that we are not going to run into some kindof piece of metal embedded in the log. if you had some nails or big nail or spike, somethinglike that embedded in the log, you could hit it with this wedge and that would damage thewedge. so you want to make sure you don’t have any metal inside the log.