New Log Splitter

[stevec]

(05-30-2013, 12:05 PM)DaveH Wrote: I was asking How does it work? - mode of operation -What knobs do you twiddle, maybe you could show (with some photos) how the hydraulics do what they do.

DaveH

Well Dave, I wondered if that's what you meant but it was easier for me to give the lame answer I gave.
It takes me forever to do a post with pics that have arrows and letters that I can refer to. I can't even do the arrows as crisp and straight as others can so I'll start with a verbal description.

There is a high pressure pump that is driven by an 8hp engine (I scavenged and rebuilt mine from an old snowblower) feeding 2 valves.
The hydraulic fluid passes through 2 valves in series to be returned through the filter to the tank until one of the valve levers is actuated.
Depending on the valve chosen and which direction it is moved it will either lift the log lifter tray or set it back down. If the other valve is actuated it will either extend the cylinder forcing the log into the wedge until it is split. The other direction retracts the cyl. ready for another log.

   

A: is the snowblower engine.
B: is the pump
C: is the splitter cylinder
D: is the log lifter cylinder
E: is the splitter valve and
F: is the lifter valve.

   

1: is the guage showing the pressure at the time of a function (lift, split, return, descend)
2: is the filter on the return line to the tank
3:is the tank/axle/cross frame
4: is the lifter (with tray folded up)
5: is the removable splitting wedge
6 is the backer, now to be reworked

Please ask any further questions that can be answered in one word.