Attaching wedge to beam: Best method??

[Shield Arc]

That wood isn't much of a work out for the splitter. It looks like the Alder we have here. You can cut these Adler trees to length. Let them lay for about 3-days, walk through with the blunt end of an ax and split them.

 

[LD1]

Yea, I know it was easy splitting stuff. Makes the splitter look good. But The video was really to show the method of splitting with the table and with the wedge on the beam. How the split pieces fall off, ones that need to go again just get slid back around, etc.

 

[merlynr]

This wedge is sitting on top of the beam at the end with another piece of I beam standing up behind it and welded to the wedge and the end of beam and to the tongue of chassis. My friend and I build this about 4 yrs ago and added the log lift last year.

 

[muddstopper]

How I did mine

 

[LD1]

Got the wedge done.

Now to find time for everything else...

 

[LD1]

If anyone is still following this, I am underway on the build and started a new thread.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/305998-my-logsplitter-build.html#post3705679

 

[arrow]

If anyone is still following this, I am underway on the build and started a new thread.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/305998-my-logsplitter-build.html#post3705679

This method of attachment has worked since 1998. People usually look at me with a cocked head in the way I do things but this table has also worked even if it comes from the Fred Flintstone Academy. I loved going there.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

How I did mine

I know this thread is pushing a year old but do you have any more pics of your wedge from other angles? And how you connected it to the cyl? I've been having a similar thought to what you did for an up-coming processor build. Anything you'd do differently?

 

[LD1]

I can probably take some more pictures tomorrow, but what are you looking for specifically that isnt pictured?

The cylinder is just a pin. The base end had two "bars" welded to it that are on either side of the anchor block. Kinda like a yoke but not a forged piece.

There isnt anything at this time that I would change.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

I was actually looking at muddstopper's adjustable wedge. Seems like a simple way to get 2-4-6 options.

I do like they way that you've got your wedge and cyl mount tied into the beam. You already having asked the question saves me from even having to consider it. :thumbsup: