Another log splitter thread

[phil t]

Just thought I'd post a picture of one I knocked together out of am old shear grab and girders from the old parlour.works a treat

 

[Land Rover]

I am in the process of making one , thanks for the pic .
What size is the I beam ?
I am going to have to buy an I beam for mine if I can't get one dredged up locally .

 

[Mur Huwcun]

I am in the process of making one , thanks for the pic .
What size is the I beam ?
I am going to have to buy an I beam for mine if I can't get one dredged up locally .

If you're buying steel consider a decent box section, won't twist as much,'ine is three offcuts of rsj welded together with bracing as precaution to stop any twisting. Funny enough mine was an old shear grab ram with the mounting used aswell!!

Will have to take a completed, painted photo!!!

 

[Mursal]

Would it work if we put a blade instead of the base plate and push the timber through with a flat plate on the ram?
That way you could split multiple ways at the same time like the processors do?

 

[nick...]

Having got a similar one which i bought,a wessex in fact,you can improve them greatly by making the flat table as big as possible to load up with logs and then split them.mine had a small table about 300x450mm and you would pick up a log then split it.i can now load the table up with maybe 10 logs and split in one go to save alot of bending down.just a thought
Nick...

 

[Nearly]

Having got a similar one which i bought,a wessex in fact,you can improve them greatly by making the flat table as big as possible to load up with logs and then split them.mine had a small table about 300x450mm and you would pick up a log then split it.i can now load the table up with maybe 10 logs and split in one go to save alot of bending down.just a thought
Nick...

make the table with a slotted base and big enough to drop a handler bucket full of rounds on.

 

[Land Rover]

Thanks MH , had a right good look at that picture , great .
Still to cast the net around for an RSJ , but I did think about a big bit of box , I even thought about a big bit of pipe in relation to the twisting effect . It's all getting a bit complicated though for just splitting a few logs .
I see you have used the popular slider on the H beam , is this easy to fabricate and how far round the beam face does the slider go ?. I haven't got a beam yet , but I am assuming it would be tapered .I see other guys on youtube using a welded up track on the beam face .

From what I can see , having the blade on the ram when using a horizontal table with big rounds would be easier in most situations . With the blade fixed the big chunks break and are then pushed beyond the blade , you've then got to pull them back in front of the blade again . With the blade on the ram , the sections fall either side of the endstop and splitting zone . The sections just need shoved in front of the ram again - assuming you are working at a table around the ram .

 

[Mursal]

I meant to push them through the table, just to see did anyone else try it before? Like a vertical processor with manual feed ................
But yes the way you're going is the best for starters, then you can always tweak as you go ...........

 

[bkg]

Like this one Mursal

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Thanks MH , had a right good look at that picture , great .
Still to cast the net around for an RSJ , but I did think about a big bit of box , I even thought about a big bit of pipe in relation to the twisting effect . It's all getting a bit complicated though for just splitting a few logs .
I see you have used the popular slider on the H beam , is this easy to fabricate and how far round the beam face does the slider go ?. I haven't got a beam yet , but I am assuming it would be tapered .I see other guys on youtube using a welded up track on the beam face .

Slider was very easy to fabricate, off cut of RSJ in a T shape, two spacers and two pieces of flat going around the beam face about 50-60mm. Tack them all together on the beam first then slide off and drill in piller drill. My reasonig for bolting it being that it looks a bit better than welded up, ro real advantage though. Mine was built with students on an a Engineering course so plenty of labour!!!

You only need a piece of RSJ for the stroke length of the ram, the top piece can be anything else you have lying around. Seen them done from an old digger dipper to trailer drawbars!!!

 

[Land Rover]

Mursal , is this what you mean

There is something simple about that one , easy and it works .

If you mean vertical then I can't see the advantage . The logs need lifted up to it , then cleared away , mind you , a bucket could go below the splitter ....

 

[Mursal]

Yes exactly .............
Half tonne bag under the splitter and slide the full logs off the trailer?

Don't be going using pipe unless its proper big wall, very easily kinked .................

 

[multi power]

Yes exactly .............
Half tonne bag under the splitter and slide the full logs off the trailer?

Don't be going using pipe unless its proper big wall, very easily kinked .................

I seen one like that on you tube, fancy one with hi ab and grab loading it. Very impressive

 

[Magnificent Earwig]

This is still my favourite home made splitter

 

[Will 1594]

Some one say log splitter @Spud

 

[roscoe erf]

this is what you want

 

[Insane Ubolt]

This is still my favourite home made splitter

I could about split that wood with a penknife!!!!

 

[joe soapy]

This is still my favourite home made splitter

that has to be close to the best small splitter so far, no reason why it could not be scaled up

 

[Land Rover]

Bloody hell roscoe , that one looks a bit of a challenge ....
Don't think I could let the kids near that one .

 

[renewablejohn]

Bloody hell roscoe , that one looks a bit of a challenge ....
Don't think I could let the kids near that one .

Was not a happy ending

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