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Homemade logsplitter design question
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GuglioLS
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Did you buy the valve mounting on the cylinder? Or is this something you bought/made seperately? John )</font>
Thank you for asking - the valve mount is home made. It's a piece of angle Iron cut out to fit around the end of the cylinder.
Thank you for asking - the valve mount is home made. It's a piece of angle Iron cut out to fit around the end of the cylinder.
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Well, that's pretty work. I though for sure that was machine made. That's from angle? I never would have guessed it.
John
Well, that's pretty work. I though for sure that was machine made. That's from angle? I never would have guessed it.
John
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John -
That is the ultimate compliment - thank you.
look closely at the valve mounting bracket - I forgot to mention that I had to add 2 peices of 1/4" x 1-1/2" flat to extend the angle out to the full length of the valve. In a way it was machine made - I had to use the band saw, drill press & the jig saw to cut out the half round to clear the end of the cylinder. The Cylinder was purchased on e-Bay. The real tough part was drilling the 1" hole through 1" steel for the cylinder clevis. And OMG cutting all that 1" on the saw !!!!.
As you can also see I ran out of black paint and red paint. Yellow and Orange paint is all I had left - I used the yellow.
This thing exceeds all my expectations. I have since added another 6" tall blade on top of the one shown. But never took more pictures. Most all the material came from my "scrap" pile - what I like to call my"inventory" Well I thinks thats it for now - don't want to steal this post any more than I already have.
That is the ultimate compliment - thank you.
look closely at the valve mounting bracket - I forgot to mention that I had to add 2 peices of 1/4" x 1-1/2" flat to extend the angle out to the full length of the valve. In a way it was machine made - I had to use the band saw, drill press & the jig saw to cut out the half round to clear the end of the cylinder. The Cylinder was purchased on e-Bay. The real tough part was drilling the 1" hole through 1" steel for the cylinder clevis. And OMG cutting all that 1" on the saw !!!!.
As you can also see I ran out of black paint and red paint. Yellow and Orange paint is all I had left - I used the yellow.
This thing exceeds all my expectations. I have since added another 6" tall blade on top of the one shown. But never took more pictures. Most all the material came from my "scrap" pile - what I like to call my"inventory" Well I thinks thats it for now - don't want to steal this post any more than I already have.
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Jim_in_Omaha
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Thanks for all the input. It helps to know the experiences others have had with this sort of thing.
thx
Jim
thx
Jim
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so i've rented splitters both ways.
the one i liked best pushed the wedge into the log. For easy wood you can push the wedge in until the log snaps, back the wedge out, roll the log that is still sort of connected, then run the ram through it, splitting what is left in halves. In ohter words, you don't have to pick up the halves or catch them as they fell.
Also, the one home made splitter I saw had steel guards so that if you pulled the ram all the way out, the guards would pull the wood off the wedge. Sometimes the wood gets stuck on the wedge which is mostly annoying.
the one i liked best pushed the wedge into the log. For easy wood you can push the wedge in until the log snaps, back the wedge out, roll the log that is still sort of connected, then run the ram through it, splitting what is left in halves. In ohter words, you don't have to pick up the halves or catch them as they fell.
Also, the one home made splitter I saw had steel guards so that if you pulled the ram all the way out, the guards would pull the wood off the wedge. Sometimes the wood gets stuck on the wedge which is mostly annoying.
RoyBrooks
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I found these splitters and thought the company had some really good designs www.timberwolfcorp.com I really liked the Tw-7 model, it splits the log in multiple pieces and leaves the piece to be resplit sitting on top of the wedge for a quick reload.
