Log splitter

[turnkey4099]

I, for one, would at least try one out if I had the money and needed a splitter - and their prices aren't all that bad anyhow.

I have seen them referred to, write ups, ads etc over the years. Never heard and negative comments.

Harry K

 

[JimR]

A friend of mine is the one who talked me into one of these splitters. He bought his unit, which is the same as mine, 15 years ago used. He sold cordwood for almost 10 years using his splitter to do all the splitting. In that time he replaced the rack once and now needs to replace the pinion gear. Not bad for 10 years of hard commercial use. The splitter we have is the HD model.

 

[Propertymaint]

Thanks Jim, I'm usually a day late with the want advertiser. Missed a lot of good deals.

 

[JimR]

Don't feel bad. I missed one 3 weeks ago and another bigger unit 2 weeks ago. This is the first time ever that I have seen 3 Super Splits listed back to back. The other two sold right away also.

 

[holstein05]

I have a Log Splitter Question. My Father in Law gave me an old Hydraulic splitter to run off the tractor. The catch is, it doesn't have the Cylinder. Now, I need to get a cylinder for it, and I don't know what size I should be looking at. I can figure out the stroke, that's pretty easy, but the bore is my concern. I will be running it with a 40 hp tractor. any advice?

 

[JimR]

I would put at least a 4" ID cylinder on your splitter with a 2" piston ram. I have a 5" on my hydraulic splitter. The length is whatever will fit in the area you have to work with.

 

[MadDog]

Is it going to connect to the tractor hydraulics or just run its pump off of the PTO? If you are running off of tractor hydraulics, check your tractor specs for the output of your hydraulic pump; you can then calculate your cycle time from the bore of the cylinder. That will give you an idea as to whether you can go to a larger cylinder (like 5") without ending up with too slow a cycle time. If you plan to run the splitter yourself, you probably don't need anything faster than 15-20sec, but much slower than that is apt to have you standing around getting frustrated.

Hope this helps