Rotating Log Splitter

[the orra loon]

Wondered if anyone had made something like this as have quite a lot of up to 4” branches I want to chop up.

Looks effective. I’m thinking a car differential and either on to an electric motor or off tractor pto. I have an old Mcconnel saw bench I could butcher if it goes on the tractor and use the bits to reduce the speed.

 

[Muddyroads]

Get yourself a Bilke, great machine for that size stuff.

 

[mo!]

Wondered if anyone had made something like this as have quite a lot of up to 4” branches I want to chop up.

Looks effective. I’m thinking a car differential and either on to an electric motor or off tractor pto. I have an old Mcconnel saw bench I could butcher if it goes on the tractor and use the bits to reduce the speed.

Better using the McConnel saw bench. That thing looks like it will rip your arm off given half a chance.

 

[traineefarmer]

Looks equally lethal and brilliant to my eyes. I'd want something to clamp the log more effectively to prevent it rotating my arm off my shoulder, but the whole idea could be easily refined.

I doubt a car diff would be substantial enough, the machine in the video has a quite large reduction box behind it. Maybe an old David Brown final drive or something similar would do?

 

[Dry Rot]

I have a Posch tilting saw. You can put bundles of smaller stuff through it and do larger logs too, so not restricted. Working single handed, I can put lengths through as fast as I can move the cutting bed backwards and forwards.

 

[Muddyroads]

 

[Cowcalf]

watched them on utube look perfectly safe to me keep cutting edges close to each other and little or no leverage.nice simple machine. a truck axle would give plenty of momentum

 

[Kidds]

I have a Posch tilting saw. You can put bundles of smaller stuff through it and do larger logs too, so not restricted. Working single handed, I can put lengths through as fast as I can move the cutting bed backwards and forwards.

I made my own sawbench but pretty much the same thing, logs drop onto an adapted Lister bale elevator. Very quick way of sawing logs.

 

[Dry Rot]

I made my own sawbench but pretty much the same thing, logs drop onto an adapted Lister bale elevator. Very quick way of sawing logs.

Mine drop into the tractor bucket, from there into the quad trailer which will sit outside the back door with a sheet over it. The saw cuts up to size of a fencing strainer, powered by the MF135.

 

[norse]

Wondered if anyone had made something like this as have quite a lot of up to 4” branches I want to chop up.

Looks effective. I’m thinking a car differential and either on to an electric motor or off tractor pto. I have an old Mcconnel saw bench I could butcher if it goes on the tractor and use the bits to reduce the speed.

Looks like a massey ferguson combine final drive and cut down wheel rim,something like a 525 / 625 one

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Looks like a massey ferguson combine final drive and cut down wheel rim,something like a 525 / 625 one

Yes I would say the same, mf 500 combine final drive unit

 

[norse]

Should be plenty to be had from breakers yards

 

[Clive]

Wondered if anyone had made something like this as have quite a lot of up to 4” branches I want to chop up.

Looks effective. I’m thinking a car differential and either on to an electric motor or off tractor pto. I have an old Mcconnel saw bench I could butcher if it goes on the tractor and use the bits to reduce the speed.

that looks lethal !

 

[norse]

that looks lethal !

Can not imagine that you would escape without injury if you got your arm in the wrong place or the kids that you can hear in the background,novel though!

 

[Y Fan Wen]

These home made ones are fine as long as they are properly guarded. Most of them definitely not!
I don't have a prime mover so I use one of these with a chainsaw for 4 inch and below. Mine is home made in timber and made to measure for the Rayburn firebox.

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[spin cycle]

that looks lethal !

so do the pto screw type log splitters IMO but you see a lot about

 

[Pistonbroke]

Known as " Fingers" after this was filmed

 

[Goweresque]

Get yourself a Bilke, great machine for that size stuff.

I have an S3, and while its incredible fast, it does make a very 'smashed up' sample of wood. Because the feed is automatic you often end up with a very short or long log at the end of a log. And because there is a splitting wedge fixed to the rotating knife you end up splitting a lot of logs that would be better left unsplit - you end up with lots of kindling in effect.

Because of the above problems (as I'm wanting to sell the logs and selling a bag filled with small smashed up wood is not very popular) I've actually removed the autofeed on mine and manually feed the logs, thus allowing me to position them away from the splitting wedge if I just want the log cut and not split. I can also adjust the log length to suit. Thus creating a more uniform quality of firewood. I also don't load it straight into bags, I just process a big pile and then manually fill the bags as customers order them, thus manually separating out the small bits/bark etc. Doing it this way is still faster and safer than a circular saw, and still has the advantage of being able to split the larger diameter logs (up to about 8") as I go. If I was going to process huge amounts I think I'd set up a trommel to tidy up the output of the S3 so the logs could go straight into a bag.

 

[the orra loon]

I’m afraid the Bilke S3 would be out of my price range. This is only for myself not selling any firewood. I like the Posch Saw Bench, which reminds me of the Fergie saw I still have but safer, wonder how much they are?

This rotating type, or similar, don’t look that unsafe to me compared to some diy splitters you see on YouTube. Obviously needs to be treated with respect.

Just now I use a couple of chainsaws and a Handy 7 ton Vertical Electric Splitter which has not failed to split anything I have put through. All types of soft and hardwood with plenty knots just occasionally need a couple of bites. Been using an old table saw to cut the branches up hence thinking of something else and I like a challenge!

 

[Wurzeetoo]

I’ve never seen this design with a blade welded inside the wheel to split the timber as it chomps through. Great idea! Hopefully you share your finished project if you decide to make it