Good workhorse, with weaknesses

Now 15 cubic meters of wood are split, enough for a review.
Key words outlining the experience curve:
For the construction of the table, I would have liked liked a drawing. For good working posture of the table is very useful.
The column goes slightly out of hand and then rapidly when the stroke is short. Often a slight incipient splitting without the truck enough to drive to the end.
The splitting cross is for the birds, and sometimes even dangerous, so flew for example a piece of wood with splitting cross through the air!
The two sides are too narrow designed also not sufficiently well fixed to 5 RM broke away the screws, probably by vibration.
The screw to adjust the stroke can be forgotten, too weak dissolves easily.
Instead, I have worked with wooden spacers. Properly used very effectively and shorten the stroke. , Especially since they have extra functions in fibrous wood (see pictures). But be careful, if the distance woods not rest flat on Spaltgut, they can also fly! Would the manufacturers create another fixation here, this auxiliary equipment would then lapse.

Conclusion:
Good workhorse. There was practically no wooden part, which could not be split (also roots!). The machine could be awarded if the manufacturer would improve a few things:
1. adjudicate eg an exploded view of the rapid construction of the table.
2. Seiteneteile something make wider, thus the greater Spaltgut rests safely. But in particular, better screw fixations.
3. rear fender is easy to bend (if distance woods behind the Schubwagen).
4. Spacing screw should be noted so that they can not solve with every 5th or 6th splitting process again.

Therefore 4 stars with tendency to 5 star

Addendum of 02/24/2013

After 20 cubic meters of the fender on the operator side snatched right out front, but could be fixed with washers makeshift back (see picture no. 7).

Addendum dated April 10, 2013
A bolt of left fender tore out. It is the part of the fixing, which is fixed to a casting, certainly due to the softness of the material.

Addendum of 4 August 2014:
The fenders are really pops and the weakness of the construction:
- When both latches are now uprooted,
- The other, the screw threads are torn and broken a bolt.
The mudguards gain was now welded and missed new screws.

Supplement of 31 January 2015:
The danger of the splitting wedge has come true today, the 2,3 kg part shot out of the holder and hit my head. Fortunately, bounced a blunt part of the splitting wedge my scalp and not one of the four split parts, otherwise I would not be able to report this on the same day here.
I can not really explain the incident not. That raises the splitting wedge, I have often experienced since the gespaltetene wood sometimes topsy pushes under the cross Cross. But a shoot out in spite of pressure by the pusher shoe, which is quite amazing.

Gallery
(Amazon has moved 2014 client images from the product page to the review page in November. Good idea! When the transaction unfortunately all captions and detailed descriptions have been lost. Very annoying! In addition, the logical sequences of images are in some reviews messed up. This makes viewing of images in its current state to a puzzle, as in this review.)

Image 1:
Ideal splitting the wood, rarely succeed!

Figure 2:
Cleavage of fiber-rich wood with distance wood, complete

Figure 3:
Cleavage of fiber-rich wood without wood distance, insufficient

Figure 4:
Cleavage with primary splitter

Figure 5:
Split with attached splitting cross (see my addendum dated January 31, 2015!)

Figure 6:
Distance woods behind and in front of the pusher shoe

Figure 7:
Torn and again repaired mount a mudguard