World’s FIRST DEWALT Battery Powered Log Splitter! You decide if it’s Tough Enough!

Folks, today on the Stony Ridge Farm Channel, we are going to be splitting wood with two awesome DeWalt log splitters. We're going to compare the two. I didn't even know they made an electric log splitter. That is a DeWalt 9-ton max and the DeWalt 20-ton max. Let's have a little bit of fun. I'll post links to these critters down the video description for you in case you want to pick one up for yourself. Hey. Wood easy. Hey. Come here. Come here. Wood easy. Get up. Hey folks, this is Josh, Stony Ridge Farmer. Welcome back to another fun and exciting Tool Tuesday. Today, I am super excited to bring you some really cool stuff. So, behind me I have a DeWalt 20-ton log splitter, electric log splitter. And then, in front of me, I have a 9-ton electric log splitter. And today, what we're going to do is run over these things and see how well they work. Are they farm tough? Are they cool? Do they work good? Will they split wood? I will tell you I've never split any wood with these. This is a first impression, the first time I've ever seen them. I put them together yesterday, and today we're going to test them out. So, no gas needed. These run on 60-V Flexvolt batteries. Really cool. Let's get down to business. So, let's walk around the machine a little bit, and then we're going to put some wood on it. I've got a little bit of wood in the back of my side-by-side right here. So, we've got some big pieces that we're going to split. We got some smaller pieces. We got some pine. We got some oak. And we got some sycamore, some old knotty sycamore. So, we're going to put them to the test, for sure. And we're going to see what you guys think. I want you to post comments, and I'm going to tell you what I think at the end of this. So, let's look at this little 9-ton unit. So, again, these run right off of the standard Flexvolt type battery. Uh really cool. This is an 8-amp hour fast charger, okay? Inside this compartment are our batteries. We're going to scoot around this thing and show you guys everything about it. Pretty robust uh design right here. Very interesting how the hydraulic tank is actually built into the framework here. So, this is not only the framework for the log splitter, it's actually the hydraulic tank, the hydraulic reservoir. And you fill it right here. It has a breathable cap right there because our hydraulic oil will get warm as we use the log splitter. And we've got a little sight glass right here, so we can see our level. And we've cycled it a couple times. I imagine that level will drop as we extend our cylinder to full length right here. Now, as we look, we've got a little bit of electronic components right here, our switches for controls. And just like any other log splitter, we have a handle just like so with an auto return. Let's go ahead and cycle this thing real quick, so you guys see and hear what it sounds like. Pretty cool. We'll fully cycle it here in a second. We'll show you guys high speed and low speed. So, there's your filler neck. This is a tube that supplies our hydraulic fluid over here to our little hydraulic pump, which is ran by the DeWalt batteries. Moving around here to the front of the machine, you have a leg right here, which can be set in two different ways, and you have a little handle right here in case you need to move it. And it's super easy to just pick up with one hand, one or two hands, and move it around. Very, very simple. I like it. Simplicity. Lots of peace in simplicity, isn't there? This is a 5-in wedge right here, and this is the log pusher. So, we'll push the log into that wedge and split it. Now, this is a little bit lower profile than the 20-ton. The 20-ton is more like your similar large log splitter. And this is basically a smaller version. So, as we go over here, this is the battery case and pump case. I assume there's a pump in here, also. And this is our log splitter valve. Very simple on-off switch. We'll open this guy up real quick. 60-V max brushless. Awesome. Open this up, we've got a selector switch right here, low speed and high speed. Both of our batteries slide right into the place. I'll pull one out for you real quick. And I'll put it back down in there. Couldn't be more simple. This did sit out in the rain yesterday, and looks just fine, functions just fine. So, I wouldn't hesitate to let it sit out in the rain overnight. I wouldn't think that it would hurt a thing in the world, but consult your owner's manual. Here we go. So, let's turn this puppy on, and we'll run it through a full cycle. And first, let's just show you low. I'm going to click it down to low. Here we go. Okay, that's low. This is high. Okay, when it hits the end, it won't push any harder. Now, we have an auto return just like most log splitters. So, we are going to actually click it down into low speed, hit the auto return. Now, let's click it to high speed. Hear a big difference. Auto return returns back. Our handle kicks back off, and we're ready to split our next log. Way cool. Pretty cool tires. These things are not going to ever go flat. They're a solid tire held on with a pin system right here, and some assembly was required once I got this thing in here. This one was much easier to assemble than this big guy. This thing is heavy, heavy duty, really heavy duty. So, well, it's nearly twice the log splitter, supposedly. Now, let's walk around the 20-ton real quick. So, starting at the front, we have a 2-in receiver hitch ball for towing. Very nice. We have tow chains, everything like that. We also have a pretty unique setup right here for our um stand, which gives it three points of contact, 1 2 3, just the same as the other log splitter. You take your foot, push on that right there, and that releases our stand, so it will collapse. If you're hooked up to uh a piece of equipment, and you hit this, and you just pull, as soon as you pull off that way, this will pop up. And then, we've got a little retainer, a little rubber thing that retains it with that little hole and that little tab. Very innovative. I definitely like it. And it looks like you just step right there. So, it's easy to use your feet to handle this thing. As we cruise right along, we have a detent right here that we pull out for flipping this thing up on its end for doing larger logs, and we are going to do that. I've never done it. I've never used these before, so this is going to be a total first impression. Okay, so we have our battery box right here, 60-V max brushless. Open it up. Similar, same, two speeds just like that. Very easy. The hydraulic cylinder itself is a 20-ton max cylinder, and we have an I-beam construction right here, which is really, really heavy and really, really robust. I think you guys probably saw me putting this together. I had to use a tractor to lift it up to assemble it. This thing is heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy. Heavy means good. Heavy means tough. Heavy means quality. Now, we've got trailer-rated tires right here. We also have our filler neck right here, and this actually has a dipstick in it, so you can unscrew that, and it's a breathable filler neck because again, the hydraulic fluid is going to get warm in there. Very cool. All right, so same setup with the other one, except for this is a 7 gallons per minute pump, and this is a 3.5, and that is a two-stage pump. So, as we cruise along, we've got a little log deck right here, where we put our logs on. Very nice. The slide basically just cruises right along here. There's a little lip. Much more robust, much larger um splitting wedge for bigger wood, I would honestly say. That is a smaller unit. I mean, you can clearly see it's a much, much smaller unit. So, as we continue to look over this machine, we've got an on-off switch, very similar to the other one. Right under here is where our hydraulic fluid goes to our pump from our tank. This is our storage tank here versus the other one has the storage tank built into um the framework. That's framework, but it's just a different type of tank, and it holds a lot more hydraulic fluid, clearly, because we've got a bigger machine. Now, the same thing with our handle right here. We can reach over. Let's turn it around. It's on low speed now. We'll extend it all the way out. Let's go ahead and switch her to high speed. There we go. Look at that. She'll get it now. We're going to return. [Music] We're going to turn to low and high. And it'll pop right back just like that. Pretty much just like any standard log splitter, except for it's electric. And I'm all about trying some new technology. So, without further ado, let's test the little guy, the 9-ton, and then we'll throw it on the 20-ton. All right. You know what's really cool about this is no hearing protection. It's not super loud. You could run this inside your house or shop. So, if it's snowing like crazy outside and you got a load of wood that needs splitting, you can bring it right in your shop. Now, we're going to make a mess today. This is a pine log. We're going to start with pine, then we're going to go to oak, and then we're going to put one of the big dogs, a big old knotty piece of sycamore on there. So, I have it in high speed right now. We're going to switch it back to low speed real quick. Be sure you wear your safety gear. Uh here we go. Let's engage. This is the first log this splitter has ever split. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] That's low speed. Retracting back. Now, let's go ahead and split it again. [Music] Okay. Moving on pretty good. [Music] [Applause] I will say that this does have a lower profile, so much lower than the standard log splitter you can stand up and operate. You may want to put this, I don't know, you I guess you could probably put it on a workbench. Just make sure it's secure if you want to get it up to a higher working height, or you can just get a little stool like this, sit down in the in your garage or in your shop or in your basement and just burp burp burp just get down there and relax and split a little bit of firewood. Very cool. So far, very impressed. That was two on the low speed. I do want you guys to know how many cycles you do get out of this. So, up to 9 tons of splitting force, up to 40 minutes of run time on low speed with a full 4.0 amp hour battery and up to 50 minutes of run time or 250 splits on high speed. That's pretty cool. All right. So, let's go ahead and finish this one up. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Cool. All right, we're going to have a big old mess out here. I like it. Let's just make a big mess. Okay, retract. Go ahead and get our next log. [Applause] This is a little bit bigger piece of pine. It'll fit right on there. I think that's about 16 in. We're going to crank it up. We're going to put it up to the high speed and try it out with high speed. We may not ever want to use low speed after this. HERE WE GO. [Applause] I'M IMPRESSED. TOTALLY IMPRESSED. So quiet. NICE. HERE WE GO. [Applause] I WANT YOU GUYS' INPUT. As you see this thing work, I want your input. Right, here we go. [Music] [Applause] Again, this is 3.5 gallons per minute. Do it again. [Applause] That's cool. [Music] [Applause] Now, the run time is based on one fully charged battery, so not two fully charged batteries. We're going to go ahead and we're going to grab ourselves a piece of oak. This is oak that's been sitting in the woods forever. Now, I know a lot of you folks are going to say, "Ga, let's get me a big old piece." If this is not about the size of your log, it's about the hardness of your log. So, we know what pine does. Now, we need to know what a good serious hardwood will do. So, let's reach up here and get a piece of this oak. This is oak from a down tree on the farm and it'd been sitting there for probably 3 years. It is super hard. All right. In fact, let me show you how hard it is. Okay, all right. Here is how hard it is. Okay, you can tell the quality of an anvil by how hard how it rings when you hit it. Listen to this log ring. That ain't no joke right there. That's some hard oak, baby. Okay, so let's try the oak first on the low speed. I'm like you guys, I would probably think that low speed would have more torque, but I don't know. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. LET'S SEE. AH, she just busted wide open. That's awesome. [Applause] [Music] Nice. Now, the cycle times aren't based on oak. Okay? That's how DeWalt base their cycle times or how long it will run. Let's do it again. We're going to split a uh oak piece at HIGH SPEED NEXT. [Applause] NICE. [Music] SO, IF you have really large logs, could you use this splitter? Totally. It's just going to be a little bit more work than the other splitter. That's what I'm thinking. We're going to go ahead and grab our next piece of oak. And toss it on there. We're going to put her on high speed for this one. We can high speed. Gosh, you can tell such a difference in the sound that it makes on high speed. Here we go. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Very cool. Here we go. Uh-oh. That's a little big for a double splitter. Let's split the little one first. Here we go. [Applause] Nice. OKAY, last but not least, let's get the big DOG OUT. HERE IS A BIG DADDY. UH KIND of dwarfs this log splitter, doesn't it? But, let's see how it does. I don't know. I don't know how it's going to do. I'm going to leave it on high speed and let's let her rip. [Music] [Applause] OKAY. OOH. NOT A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE. THAT'S A ROTTEN PIECE OF WOOD THERE. Fairly rotten. There's a big knot right here on this side. Let's see what it does with it. Honestly, I'm not really uh impressed with this log and it is totally full of ants. [Applause] I'm going to get uh ate up with ants here in a second. Here we go. [Applause] Nice. [Applause] I saw no lag. I saw no grunting. I everything was just fine. That was on the high speed. That was with a big log. Now, we're going to back the side by side up to the 20-ton max DeWalt brushless battery-powered splitter. And first things first, I've never flipped this thing up uh in the upright position. I put it together yesterday and I've never flipped it up. So, let me try. We'll pull a pin and rotate. And it's just that easy. Cool. Super cool. All right. So, if we got big stuff and there's a handle right over here, we pull it back down. Put my foot there. There we go. Locks it back in place. So, big daddy log splitter right here, the 20-ton max brushless log splitter from DeWalt will do 15 minutes or 80 splits, up to 15 minutes, up to 80 splits on one battery, or on high speed, it will go up to 25 minutes or 150 splits. That's a lot of splits. That's I don't know, a pickup truck load of wood, and maybe even more than that. So, let's give her a shot here. First, we're going to try the pine, just like we did before, pine log, and let her rip. And this will be on low. Much faster than the little 9. [Applause] Nice. [Applause] Okay. So, you got a log deck over here. That's kind of handy to have. Set it right there. Much, much faster than the smaller version, the 9-ton. All right, what do we notice there? This is much faster than the 9-ton. Power-wise, again, this is 20 tons of splitting pressure. We'll go ahead and stack these two logs back on each other and give them another split on low speed. I like that it has this log deck right here. So, the stuff falls off the wood that you split falls off on there. We're going to load these back on the side-by-side. Knotty pine. This one's got a knot in it, and I'm excited to try that. Toss this guy over here. We're going to flick her up into high speed. There we go. That's your high speed. Dual battery, high speed. Yeah. [Music] Nice. That was a nice knot right there. Nothing harder than a good pine knot. So, for giggles, I'm going to take out one battery. Let's just see how it performs with just one battery. Hey, we're on one battery now, high speed, one battery. Same speed. Can't tell the difference. Splitting like crazy. Awesome. It's time for some oak. Now, if I had bigger oak logs, we'd be using them. Toss this over here. We're going to high speed, one battery on the oak. I see no difference in high speed with two batteries versus one. Splits that oak like butter. Double stack. Give it another split. [Applause] Nice. [Applause] [Music] Awesome. Low speed with one battery, just to see what the difference is. Low speed, one battery. Kick it. Yeah. [Applause] I'm going to be honest with you. I had no idea. I guess I had my doubts about a battery-powered log splitter. I I I guess anybody would have their doubts about a battery-powered log splitter that just runs off the standard DeWalt Flexvolt 60-V. I am uh I'm pretty astounded at the strength of these machines. Now, let's get this big one, and we're going to flip it up and split a big piece with the uh splitter upright. I think that is one of the best features of this machine. Clearly, it splits wood fine. Clearly, it does a great job. But, flipping it upright, that's a game-changer. Just pull a pin and tilt it up. That's way cool. How hard is it to tilt up? Pull a pin, rotate it up with one hand. It's very easy, very simple. Let's put the small one on first. See what it does. Watch your fingers. [Applause] Nice. One battery, high speed, big log. That's what most people are talking about when it comes to splitting big stuff. They want to make sure that they can put a big log down here and not have to pick it up to the log deck up there. So, this makes all the world of DIFFERENCE TO ME. [Applause] OH, BABY, that made her grunt. [Applause] Nice. IT'S GOT A BIG OLD KNOT IN IT RIGHT THERE. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] NICE. LET'S DO another oak. Might as well. Clear it out. DOWN WE GO. [Applause] CHECK THIS OUT. UP WE GO. VERY WELL BALANCED. [Applause] HOW MUCH BATTERY DID we use? That is the question. Let's see here. Still got two bars of battery left on that Flexvolt 60-V. Nice, guys. Well, now you know that they make an awesome DeWalt log splitter right here that you could use indoors if you wanted to split wood. It's the dead of winter, it's pouring down snow outside or raining outside, you could do your work indoors. That is awesome. Let me know what you guys think about these two log splitters. That's the 9-ton, little smaller. I like the idea of having a little rolling stool right here. You can just roll up and get your work done. Clearly, we split wood with it. We did great. Or, the big daddy of them all, the 20-ton MAX DeWalt brushless. Man, I can't say enough. Way, way cool. I like the innovative design. I like the idea of this tank holding the hydraulic fluid, and I like the idea where they worked the tank for the hydraulic fluid into the frame or the chassis of this. Never get a flat tire on it. Pick it up with one hand, two hands, move it around your garage or your shop or your yard, wherever you're going to be splitting wood. Or, the big daddy of them all, hook it to your pickup truck, take it over to Grandma's house, and split her firewood for Awesome. We'll see you guys next time on Tool Tuesday on the Stoney Ridge. Big shout out to DeWalt for helping us out and letting us do a comparison video of these two log splitters. 9-ton versus 20-ton MAX Flexvolt. See you next time. It's Josh, Stoney Ridge Farmer. I am not centered in the Are you on? You're not on. I love It's really windy. And I don't want any wind to blow me away now. Oh. You guys still here? Thanks so much for watching. I'll post links to these down the video description for you. See you next time on Tool Tuesday.