Tractor loader rebuild

[Pete O]

It must be some kind of cultural thing but every wood splitter I have seen in Oz has the wedge attached to the ram, whereas the wedge seems to be at the non-moving end on all the ones I've seen in videos or pics from North America, possibly from Europe too. Perhaps because we use hardwood, and the timbers here would take massive power to split more than one way per stroke. Anyway it enables me to set a job up against the flat 'foot' end of the splitter the few times I have used it as a press. Or maybe it makes no difference. Dunno. Worst thing used to be the vibration from the chonda motor, but it died after about 3 seasons and got replaced with a genuine Honda motor that hasn't got a fraction of the vibration, makes it easier to keep things in place. It's great for breaking up aluminium wheels for the furnace too.