For many rural homestead-dwellers, keeping warm in the winter can pose a bit of a problem. Living away from the hubbub of the city means you are closer to nature, but likely too far away from natural gas pipelines to be able to heat with natural gas. Thus, the heat fuel options are either having heating… Read More
There are a lot of options for heating your home in the wintertime: oil, propane, electricity, et cetera. And there’s always those old wool sweaters in the back of your closet, although I wouldn’t rely on them for a Vermont winter! One option that many people choose is heating with wood, either in a wood… Read More
Keep your DR RapidFire log splitter in top condition with regular maintenance. Here’s how you can do a quick engine tune-up right at home, keeping your engine running like a champ all season long. Includes changing the air filter, changing the spark plugs, and changing the oil. Have another maintenance question? Ask it in the… Read More
Keep your DR RapidFire log splitter in top condition with regular maintenance. Here’s how you can do a quick engine tune-up right at home, keeping your engine running like a champ all season long. Includes changing the air filter, changing the spark plugs, and changing the oil. Have another maintenance question? Ask it in the… Read More
Most people use their log splitters for heating their homes in the wintertime and maybe having a bonfire or two in the summertime. The folks over at Folino’s Pizza in Shelburne, Vermont use their DR RapidFire log splitter for something else entirely: making delicious wood fired pizza year ’round. We visited them to see what… Read More
When we visited Folino’s Wood Fired Pizza to see how they use their DR RapidFire log splitter to make delicious wood fired pizza, owner and head log splitter Buddy Koerner talked about how impressed he was with the speed of the RapidFire. We challenged him to see how fast he could split a log into… Read More
The DR RapidFire Log Splitter is what’s known as a “kinetic log splitter” or a “kinetic splitter”. That means that it works completely differently from most log splitters out there. Most log splitters are hydraulic, which means that the engine pushes oil into a hydraulic cylinder and the pressure of that oil pushes the ram… Read More
Keep your DR Dual-Action gas-powered log splitter in top condition with regular maintenance. Here’s how you can do a quick engine tune-up right at home, keeping your engine running like a champ all season long. Includes changing the air filter, changing the spark plugs, and changing the oil. Have another maintenance question? Ask it in… Read More
Ever wonder what DR RapidFire log splitter owners think of their machines? Lots of them want to show you! They want to show you how easy it is to use, how it bursts through tough, knotty woods without missing a beat, and how much time it saves them. Here are their stories, in their own… Read More
When the chill comes back into the air and the leaves start to show their true colors, those of us who heat with wood start itching to “get the wood in” and prepare for the long winter. As the old saying goes, wood warms you three times: when you split it, when you stack it,… Read More