Logsplitter 2.0

[oldtimer 66]

RSWYAN you are doing a really good job. You can weld at least 10 times better than me. From the look of some of your parts you must have a mill and a lathe. It must be nice. Here are a couple of splitters I made and I put my initial either on the pusher and or on the strong back. If it was for somebody else it would be their initial. Just something different. I had a couple of other splitters that worked on and or repaired and I did the same but I did not take pictures. Also after the wood is split you can tell whose splitter it was done on. Sort of a wood branding thing. I had to add some corners on one then because the wood wanted to slip more than it should have [/I]LOL Later

 

[rswyan]

RSWYAN you are doing a really good job.

Thanks ...

You can weld at least 10 times better than me. From the look of some of your parts you must have a mill and a lathe. It must be nice.

I wish ...

Just the normal stuff: a vise, angle grinders, hammers and drills ... I do have a bandsaw and a drill press, along with a (normal) bench grinder/wire wheel combo ... and the Delta Sharpening Center ... and my neighbor has been kind enough to loan me his O/A torch ...

Here are a couple of splitters I made and I put my initial either on the pusher and or on the strong back. If it was for somebody else it would be their initial. Just something different. I had a couple of other splitters that worked on and or repaired and I did the same but I did not take pictures. Also after the wood is split you can tell whose splitter it was done on. Sort of a wood branding thing.

LOL ... good one :thumbsup:

I had to add some corners on one then because the wood wanted to slip more than it should have. LOL ... Later

You do very nice work. Love the two-tone on the old split rims - the split rims are a good utilization of a resource ... also the positioning of the cylinder on that one: it looks to be a little higher than mine and appears to angle down towards the push block.

 

[rswyan]

Have to order a snagging wheel for the angle grinder today ... should have it by tomorrow or Thursday. Hopefully that will make short work of grinding down the wedge. Will probably wonder how I got by without it ... lol ...

Haven't got much done on the splitter over the last couple of days ... been trying to clean and straighten up the shop a little.

The high tomorrow is supposed to be 37F ... so I may take a shot at pulling the 4 x 24 cylinder off the dump cart.

Here's a photo of some purty-fication work I did a while back to clean up the welds on the end of the cross member/reservoir tube ... so far so good (it hasn't started to leak yet ... )

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

What's a snagging wheel? Never heard the term before

 

[rswyan]

What's a snagging wheel? Never heard the term before

It's a grinding wheel (as opposed to a grinding disc)

Snagging = "A rough grinding operation intended to remove material with little regard to surface finish ..."

The one I ordered is a cup type (Type 11 I think) with a 4" width, 3" wide recess (?), 2" tall ... with a 5/8" arbor.

Kinda like these:

 

[oldtimer 66]

RSWYAN, it's old timer 66 again. For years I was using the 4.5 inch grinding wheels, not really the grinding wheels that you are showing but the type 27 wheels. I tried to attach a picture but could not but I know you understand what I am talking about. My neighbor has a sheet metal business and he favors the flap disks. So I got persuaded to try them. I like them. 40 grit. A little pricey, cheap ones around $5 and the better one over $10. I still use the 4.5" wheels but not a s much as before. If I do use them it is for some heavy " snagging". I now prefer the flap disks. With even the 40 grit flap disk you can put on a relativity smooth finish. Anyways I wanted to follow up on the wood splitters in the pictures I sent. Of the three splitters shown all have 12" tall pusher or wedge with a 12" shoe. I call them twelve by twelve's. That's my made up term. The three hydraulic cylinders are all proud of the beam by 6" on c/l. I wanted the force/ load in the middle/ half way point of the pusher/ wedge. If the one looks on an angle hopefully it is only the picture because it supposed to be parallel. I won't see that splitter until next fall and I will take my tape measure with me. LOL. But I have been wrong before. Keep posting your splitter. I want to see your progress and things like this interest me. Later.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

It's a grinding wheel (as opposed to a grinding disc)

Snagging = "A rough grinding operation intended to remove material with little regard to surface finish ..."

The one I ordered is a cup type (Type 11 I think) with a 4" width, 3" wide recess (?), 2" tall ... with a 5/8" arbor.

Interesting, I'll have to look into those....

 

[rswyan]

Interesting, I'll have to look into those....

Kromhard Twist Drill just called to say my snagging wheel is in and ready for pick up.

Just to toot a local companies horn, they are a really great place for all kinds of stuff for fabrication, machining, etc. and well worth checking out. Their catalog I have (from 2003) is probably 2" thick.

These discs are intended to be used for rapid material removal ... I'll give you a report once I've had a chance to try it out.

I've run out of my stash of old Harbor Freight grinding discs - which were really great - they cut fast and didn't glaze up. The new "Warrior" (brand) ones are totally fakakta ... they glaze up and have to be dressed every time you turn around. Have had the same problem with others (Dewalt, etc.) as well.

Hopefully this snagging wheel will work well when I have a lot of material that has to be removed to rough something in.

 

[murphy1244]

How is that Log lift doing?

 

[rswyan]

RSWYAN, it's old timer 66 again. For years I was using the 4.5 inch grinding wheels, not really the grinding wheels that you are showing but the type 27 wheels. I tried to attach a picture but could not but I know you understand what I am talking about.

Yup, I do.

My neighbor has a sheet metal business and he favors the flap disks. So I got persuaded to try them. I like them. 40 grit. A little pricey, cheap ones around $5 and the better one over $10. I still use the 4.5" wheels but not a s much as before. If I do use them it is for some heavy " snagging". I now prefer the flap disks. With even the 40 grit flap disk you can put on a relativity smooth finish.

Yeah ... I find them very handy as well. They are great for deburring and radiusing edges, in addition to overall, general surface finishing. Also really good for that final bit of material removal to blend a weld into the surrounding metal.

I have three angle grinders ... one usually has a Type 27 grinding disc on it, another has a wire cup wheel, and the third has a flap disc in it ...

Flap discs are one place HFT has actually improved their product: their "new" Warrior brand flap discs are much, much better than the old ones they used to offer ... which were essentially total junk.

Anyways I wanted to follow up on the wood splitters in the pictures I sent. Of the three splitters shown all have 12" tall pusher or wedge with a 12" shoe. I call them twelve by twelve's. That's my made up term. The three hydraulic cylinders are all proud of the beam by 6" on c/l. I wanted the force/ load in the middle/ half way point of the pusher/ wedge.

Makes sense.

If the one looks on an angle hopefully it is only the picture because it supposed to be parallel. I won't see that splitter until next fall and I will take my tape measure with me. LOL. But I have been wrong before.

LOL ... it's probably just the picture.

Keep posting your splitter.

Will do.

I want to see your progress and things like this interest me. Later.

Thanks.

I could spend hours and hours reading on TBN ... so much good stuff that others have done/created ...