Unicorn Log Splitter / PTO Driven

[cwarrix]

Well, I gave up on the idea of trying on of these for now. I was watching two of them on eBay, one sold for $560!!!! And the other sold for $355. Way more than I want to pay to try it.

Also, just for clarification, these where the kind that hook up to the three point hitch and are driven by the tractor PTO. The ones that bolt to a car or truck axle seem to be less expensive, probably because there are less parts. Thanks for all of the feedback.

[Highbeam]

OMG! that's even more crazy. So your one rear wheel is on the ground and the other drives the unicorn. The differential is offering full power to the unicorn. Wow. Would be lame if a big log caused enough torque transfer to the blocked wheel to get it to move. That's about the most red-necked thing I've heard of in a long time, and I was pulling on dump trucks with a skidder and cable this weekend. It sounds like it worked well though so what the heck.

[jimmysisson]

Sure, they work all right, but you spend a lot of time on your knees bending over somethin pretty dangerous. You're real alert and sore all at the same time. Simple though, and as reliable as the vehicle.
Jim

[wvrocks]

They can definetly be dangerous. A friend of ours was using on on the back of his pickup. He stumbled and got the leg of his snowpants caught on the splitter. It wrapped his leg around the cone up to the middle of his femur before his young son was able to shut it off. Due to an exceptional orthopedic surgeon and lots of recovery and therapy time he now walks without a limp. For a long time he had more hardware in that leg than Ace Hardware has on the shelves.

[slowzuki]

Seems like a perfect place for a hydraulic motor and q/a plate on the loader!