"Bubba" wrote in message
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Does anyone remember (from about a gazillion years ago) the old wood
splitters that looked kinda like a large, stubby corkscrew. We would jack
up the rear end of a model T, take off a wheel, attach the splitter to the
hub over the lugnuts and then put the car in gear and let it run. A hunk
of
wood would be slammed onto the turning screw and it would do a pretty good
job of splitting it.

Do they still make these things? Would they work on a modern automobile?


They make a more compact and easier to use hand splitter, using a
hydraulic jack. Look on Google for hand operated hydraulic wood splitter. I
would think it easier to use, and set up, than the wheel powered screw, and
much more compact than a gas operated hydraulic, which some tool companies
rent out by the day.