3 Point Log Splitter

[walker450]

Made a quick video, hopefully it is helpful to anyone considering a 3 point splitter. I picked this one up for $250. I added the "table" area at the back to keep logs from falling down. I added a control rod coming from the tractor hydraulic block to the area where you stand. This is a simple method but only works for this one model tractor.

 

[cqaigy2]

Like the table you added to it.

Buddy of mine has a 7 ton on his Kubota. Pretty nice to be able to lower it down for the big (100lb ish) rounds, then move it back up to hip level to split the rest.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My 3 point splitter is one of my best buys! My wife agree's and loves to run it!

It's fast and easily pushes everything through the 4-way wedge.

SR

 

[nyone]

I hope that's not full tractor rpm..that thing is slow as hell.

 

[workinonit]

Sounds like low RPM. It is extremely slow though.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

My 3 point splitter is one of my best buys! My wife agree's and loves to run it!

It's fast and easily pushes everything through the 4-way wedge.

SR

Yours looks like it has a PTO driven pump, if so I suspect it is considerably faster.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Yours looks like it has a PTO driven pump, if so I suspect it is considerably faster.

Yes, it has a 20 GPM PTO pump, it's plenty fast... That along with the 4-way wedge, it really kicksazz.

SR

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

Nice set up... Fortunately you have it on a tractor with enough extra gallons per minute to give a decent cycle time...

I have been involved to make parts for some homemade 3pt splitters that worked well other than the compact tractors they were mounted on didn't have enough flow to make them work well...

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I have one without a PTO pump too, there's a huge difference in speed, but it does work well even though it's on the slow side.

SR

 

[Rich B1]

I have a 3 point mounted splitter as well run off the tractor hydraulics. It is not fast, but it allows me to split, stack, and get the next piece to split. Reality is, the splitter is usually waiting for me when I do that sequence.

 

[shooterdon]

Whatever works is what is important.

Even a slow splitter beats a maul as you get older...LOL

 

[walker450]

Yes it is slow as hell, that is at 1400RPM and PTO speed is approx 2200RPM I believe. Increasing throttle beyond 1400 makes it cycle only slightly faster and isn't worth the extra wear and fuel burn in my opinion.

It's what I have and it works fine for me, I'm not in business it's just personal use.

 

[oosik]

When we first moved here it was firewood. My ancient Ponderosa pines are 24" to 36" on the butt. I tried a splitter maul - ABSOLUTELY no go. I looked at a 3-point splitter and a stand alone splitter. I chose the stand alone splitter. I could get the stand alone low enough to the ground that I did not have to lift the rounds. Dig a shallow trench with the bucket - roll the splitter into this trench. The splitter was then just about the same height as the ground.

For the first ten years or so - five full cords of firewood every year. Then we went to pellets for the next fifteen years or so. Now it's electric heat.