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Topic: my new log splitter
Posted By: wekracer
Subject: my new log splitter
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 9:05pm
hey all,

i just wanted to share my new log splitter.  just finished it last weekend.  this was sunday morning at 15 degrees.  i was warm in the cab.  the log was red oak 24" at the small end and 30" on the big end.

thanks for watching.

Derek Wekenborg in Mo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Ehu_H62Zw



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Posted By: 427435
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 11:10pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Ehu_H62Zw - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Ehu_H62Zw

Nice work!


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Mark

B10 Allis, 917 Allis, 7116 Simplicity, 7790 Simplicity Diesel,
GTH-L Simplicity

Ignorance is curable-----stupidity is not.


Posted By: Nathan (SD)
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 1:50am
I have been thinking about building the same thing. Except  I want to make it flip over  also so you can still do some smaller pices by hand If need be.


Posted By: Brian G. NY
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 8:37am
Does your rig lift up high enuf so you can drop the split pieces into
the back of a small dump truck; looks so.
Boy, what a back saver!  That red oak in that size is some heavy
stuff to move around by hand!
Nice job!


Posted By: FredinInd
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 9:24am

   I like that set-up big time!



Posted By: Wes (VA)
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 9:34am
Awesome!  And its mounted on a good machine might I add..!  Me and dad have been wanting to build something like this for a while to use with our S250.  -Wes


Posted By: wekracer
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 4:55pm
thanks.  Dad and i burn about 14 - 16 cord of wood a year and i had been doing most of the work.  it does lift high enough to drop the pieces in a dump trailer.  this was just the trial run on some really big stuff and my buddy took a video.  we had talked about making it flip over but we have another splitter that we will use for the smaller stuff that mounts on the 3 point.  i also made the wedge removable so that i can change from a 4 way to a straight blade and I'm planning on making an 8 way. 

I will tell you that we built our own I beam.  A regular W flange beam will twist on an uneven load like you get splitting wood and when the wood splits it will send pieces flying.  So we made the web out of 2x6 rectangle 1/4" wall to resist twisting and the flanges are 4" x 3/4" plate and i wish i had used 3"x8" and 3/4"x5".  4" cylinder had around 39,000# of force at 3000 PSI.  i could see it flex when i tried to shear a 8" hickory limb.  i probably won't try that again.


Posted By: Dave A
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 5:48pm
that would be a really neat set up. If it was on a loader back hoe. Put it on the back hoe and sit in a heated cab. While you put it over the truck and split it

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Winston Churchill


Posted By: wekracer
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 5:54pm
I thought about that Dave but i didn't have a backhoe.  Seemed like a large investment just to split wood.


Posted By: Dave A
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 6:31pm
Looks like a great idea. Cutting wood isn't cheap. What a few guys are doing here are doing. Is buying a semi load in pulp lengthes. Spliting it an selling half to pay for the other half.

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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill



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