Log Splitter

[stevec]

Ah, jealousy, something I admire in everyone I meet. 

Steve

[vtsteam]

(02-28-2015, 11:01 PM)dallen Wrote: its mounted on the front of a bobcat the guy never gets off his butt

DA

 

Can he turn big splits over to do a second split, or more?
Are all the logs lined up and spaced apart perfectly, or does he drive around to whichever way they are facing?
What about normal logs in front of other logs? Does nothing move while he's working, or does he velcro everything down, first? How does he deal with a pile? Is there a TV camera to see what's happening during the split?
Can he stack with it, too? Or even throw?
When he gets a log stuck does he just bash the splitter around to free it?

questions, questions.....

I think the thing to do if considering something like this, is just use oil heat, buy a big screen TV and have a video of a people splitting wood for real, and a fireplace burning logs. Then play that whenever you feel energetic.

[dallen]

this is the one I'd want if I had to cut wood,





As much as I used a splitting maul I never got too where I really liked it.

DA

[vtsteam]

A somewhat improved design.........  


The first deserves an award of some sort for de-functionality. You could even improve on it by getting rid of the bed and ram altogether and just welding an axehead vertical and splitting rounds facing up!

[f350ca]

I like that design, almost built one similar for the backhoe. I got a load of oak logs one year that were BIG, took the young lad and I to roll them onto the splitter beam while it was on the ground. With that you could split them into manageable chunks right on the log pile.

[DaveH]

(02-28-2015, 08:04 PM)vtsteam Wrote:  But maybe your splitter is shorter than mine, so the distance is the same. Hard to say without actually trying the control position out.

I think it is a bit shorter than yours, the cylinder has a 14" stroke. From the control handle to the end of the wedge (the blunt end) is 1300mm (51").
I will be able to operate the handle and if necessary steady the occasional log. 

   

DaveH

[vtsteam]

As an auziliary splitter to break up the occasional load of big chunks, sure. But then you'd need a regular splitter for most of the real work.

I still think a vertical wedge on the arms would work better and faster for even splitting up big butt log sections. A jackhammer on a bobcat might come in handy, if you happened to have one.

[DaveH]

I'm back on this and I've changed my mind (again)   I'm going to buy some more 25mm thick steel.
I thought 20mm would spoil the esthetics       

   

 
DaveH

[rleete]

Only in a place like this would someone consider aesthetics when talking about a log splitter.

[DaveH]

(03-04-2015, 09:15 AM)rleete Wrote: Only in a place like this would someone consider aesthetics when talking about a log splitter.

   

DaveH