Logsplitter 2.0

[2458n]

Good thought on the grabber. When you are at the end of your day the old sledge just does not want to knock off the stuck piece.

 

[yomax4]

I have split a bunch of 34" or so dead red elm, assorted oak and cherry. Even with a 10" wedge on my splitter, You only get a partial split just on the bottom. Then the monster wood wants to fall on the ground and in most cases it does what ever it wants to. Then wrestle it back on the lift and pop a different side. Eventually you can get it. After 50 cords of that big stuff, I now try to stick with 24" if possible. I was reading the early part of this build and I must have gotten lucky building my lift. I added a spool valve via power beyond to run the lift cyll. Then I just picked my pivot area and built the lift. Then when the cyll. was installed I just pulled the ram out and drew a line where it would hook to the lift at slightly higher than level. Worked so well I had to laugh. Lifts anything I can roll.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

34" cherry? That should be sawn into lumber not splitting for firewood.

 

[crazyal]

On the large stuff either I tilt my splitter up so I don't have to lift it or I use my loader. I place it on the opposite side of the splitter from me so I can just roll the rounds out of the bucket onto the splitter. Once they split half wants to roll towards me which is easy to handle while the other rolls back into the bucket.

 

[ajmaxham]

For my large rounds I use a slip on wide wedge. It is 9.5 inches wide at the back.



It worked well splitting this red oak round.



It was wider at the push block end.



It does a good job pushing the two chunks of wood apart.



Split.

 

[LD1]

That wedge would require some serious tonnage to push through white elm rounds. Red oak is one of the easiest splittings woods there is.

 

[yomax4]

34" cherry? That should be sawn into lumber not splitting for firewood.

Can't agree more but the mill guys want it for nothing. I'm looking into one of those Alaskan Sawmill jobs to see if I can do some cherry boards. I'm afraid to tell you the size of the Black Walnut I cut and split for boiler wood. lol..

 

[jack707]

How much do you think that project cost you?.

 

[rswyan]

How much do you think that project cost you?.

Who is this question addressed to ?

 

[murphy1244]

Who is this question addressed to ?

How did the splitter turn out?