Log splitter with log lift build

[likker liker]

Finally getting around to building a log splitter. To late to use it this season but next year it sure will be nice to have

[pfshine]

How fast are you gonna be able spilt? Have you thought about doing two at a time? Looks like your hydrolics can handle it.

[likker liker]

Haven't thought about two at one time but I'm building the splitter for a 6 way split. 4" bore x 20" thro the pump is a two speed, 18g a minute . A friend has about the same setup, his runs about 10 seconds cycle. I'd be happy with that speed

[cranky]

Looks like the makings for a pretty good apple press to me.

[Da Yooper]

Nice looking splitter so far, way better than an axe

[MoonBreath]

Good and beefy ...Got that 'oilfield' look to it.

[bearriver]

You must have lots of bull pine. The white wood around there can be brutal.

I like cutting standing dead tamarack in those parts. Falls apart just looking at it. This time of year they are very easy to spot. This time last year I cut a mess of red fir and tamarack up behind 49 degrees north, the ski lodge. Be more this year...

[likker liker]

Bull pine I hate it. Your right there is a lot around. My favorite is tamarack and red fur. Good hot burning wood. 49 degrees north is a great place to get wood but for this year my buddy and I went in on a log truck load. Works out to 90 a cord.

Cranky
I think the oak basket too press into would half to be huge

[Appalachia-Shiner]

Cranky, you are too much. It might just work.
I use a tractor mounted Splitter and it takes a lot of work out of the chore. I would not be able to Bust logs with a maul anymore. Still there's a lot of lifting and wallering the wood around. Here is a shot of my woodpile this year. 95% Hickory when I made this photo. I have since added a unusable Walnut tree to the pile. 21 ft long 10 feet wide and about 5 ft high now

[shadylane]

The best way I've found to split wood is to use a tractor mounted Splitter.
And couple teenage boys do the work while I drink sweet tea, operate the lever and supervise so the youngens don't get hurt.
We can split a lot of wood that way. A briggs and Stratton engine will getter done but a 75 HP diesel does it easier.
Plus when you want to move to the next tree you cut down, just drive the tractor with the splitter to it.
Having a front end loader helps.

[cranky]

I was thinking something like this

Only turned sideways instead of verical. Stack a couple dozen cheeses in between slats hit the button and watch the juice flow

I can't split wood any more because of my heart problems. I have some logs that have been curing for years waiting for my son to split them. Every once in a while I'll get ambitious and go split one but, as I've mentioned on other posts, I have a seemingly endless supply of rough cut 4x4s that I bring home and cut into 8" lengths. I stack them a certain way in my fireplace insert and a single 4x4 will keep my house so hot overnight I have to keep windows open. I also built my green bean trellis out of those 4x4s.

[Bushman]

I used a splitter for the first time this summer out at the cabin, sure took a lot of work out of the process. At home I split 2-1/2 cords with a mall & wedge, wouldn't want to do any more than that.

[shadylane]

Splitting wood depends on the wood. I've got a couple blocks of gum and twisted post oak that would need explosives to split.

[jedneck]

Splitting wood depends on the wood. I've got a couple blocks of gum and twisted post oak that would need explosives to split.

I got a gum tree that I used the chain saw to split it. Yea it used gas but it beat the hell outta beaten on rubber.

[bearriver]

Seen dry madrone stop a splitter dead.

A little 18" bar with a sharp skip tooth is the winning ticket.

Edit: That is smart LL. I have seen them CL ads for log truck loads. Someone in Colville with a yard likes to buy them also. Then he seasons it for 2 years and makes good money when he sells it. Pushes it all around with heavy equipment. Easy work. Made me look like a dummy going up yard it off the mountain myself...

[rad14701]

I use my chainsaws, mauls and wedges, 8 pound splitting maul, and 4.5 pound splitting axe... Wood is my exercise and stress relief... Then comes fine tuning the wood stove throughout the winter so the furnace rarely, if ever, kicks on...

[goose eye]

The right wood will . bend that. Make sure you get a
by pass pump.
Ole boys got a ram off a d9 .put it on a iron column beam
an twisted it with a piece of sweet gum. Didn't have a by pass.
an they won't quitin. If it won't able to do what they needed they
Didn't want it.
Usin chainsaw will eat up that chain. Powerhead don't care but your bar an chain do.

So I'm tole

[Appalachia-Shiner]

Those gum trees are almost impossible to split, but they soften up after a year. You CAN split them then but the wood ain't worth it. Not many BTUs in it.
I did the same thing Jed did one time....just sawed it up in water size blocks to get it in the stove. Never cut another one. My Dad said he used to make wagon wheels out of them when he was a little boy in the 1920s....like a child's wagon but homemade.

[Truckinbutch]

I built a splitter on a 6" H beam in 1973 . The ram can be slid along the beam to adjust for firewood lengths or fence post lengths to 12' . Plugs into any tractor hydraulic system . I hire kids today to fetch and carry . I'm 'da Boss' what gives directions and sits there pulling the levers .

[MitchyBourbon]

That's a nice lookin log splitter you got there. I assume you will be able to split a lot of corn with it too.

[FreeMountainHermit]

Build it so it will operate vertically. Trust me on this. Back up to the woodpile and sit in a chair while operating the lever. I'll never go back to horizontal again.

Index car or bracket car in the background ?

[likker liker]

The best way I've found to split wood is to use a tractor mounted Splitter.
And couple teenage boys do the work while I drink sweet tea, operate the lever and supervise so the youngens don't get hurt.
We can split a lot of wood that way. A briggs and Stratton engine will getter done but a 75 HP diesel does it easier.
Plus when you want to move to the next tree you cut down, just drive the tractor with the splitter to it.
Having a front end loader helps.

I'm with you, tractor log splitters work great. I really like yours

[likker liker]

Build it so it will operate vertically. Trust me on this. Back up to the woodpile and sit in a chair while operating the lever. I'll never go back to horizontal again.

Index car or bracket car in the background ?

I built it about 5 years ago. This winter doing a little engine work too it putting on a timing belt , new fuel cell and gear change need to spin the motor a little faster
67 nova, 565ci alcohol injected runs 7.80 1\4 mile

[likker liker]

Six-way splitter not quite done but it's time for a drink or two

[shadylane]

Looks like the man is fixen to get serious with the log splitter project.

[Truckinbutch]

The wedge is the trick in building an efficient wood splitter . I welded a piece of hard plate to the pusher plate . Welded two sections of 12" diameter schedule 80 pipe in to form a radius on each side of the wedge plate . Set it up on a milling machine and used a fly cutter to form the final radius and edge . 7' locust posts only travel 6" before they split clean from end to end .

[bitter]

Build it so it will operate vertically. Trust me on this. Back up to the woodpile and sit in a chair while operating the lever. I'll never go back to horizontal again.

Index car or bracket car in the background ?

I built it about 5 years ago. This winter doing a little engine work too it putting on a timing belt , new fuel cell and gear change need to spin the motor a little faster
67 nova, 565ci alcohol injected runs 7.80 1\4 mile

I love the look of the 66-67 hardtops!!!Rad ride! Have a 68 Nova myself. Still building it. Have an iron block 6.0l LSX that will make about 525+hp so pretty mild setup. With twin turbos could make close to 2000Hp with it though... Should put my car in the 11.50s with the 4.10s detriot locker and 28x9's with my fat a$$ driving (99% street car, but will see the tack).

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[ben stiller]

I use my chainsaws, mauls and wedges, 8 pound splitting maul, and 4.5 pound splitting axe... Wood is my exercise and stress relief... Then comes fine tuning the wood stove throughout the winter so the furnace rarely, if ever, kicks on...

I'm with Rad on this one. Wood is a way to get some exercise and great for stress relief. Major feeling of accomplishment when splitting and seeing that pile grow. I do break out the neighbors splitter when I run
into elm. Just not worth the effort otherwise.

[FreeMountainHermit]

I miss drag racing very, very much !!! So much fun.

Best time of 9.18 @ 143 1/4 mile on my hot rodded (120 inch) Sportster.

Health issues said give it up.

[bitter]

Definitely something about the quest and need for speed! Its an addiction! No mater how fast you go you want to go faster!

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