LD1
Epic Contributor
I have never seen an 11 gpm Splitter with a 44 gallon res has anyone? Ten gallons is more than fine for your Splitter I have no idea who would spend more on oil than the value of the pump
And you probably won't see a 44 gallon reservoir on a 11 GPM splitter.
What you will see is a 40 - 50 Gallon reservoir on an industrial piece of equipment sitting in a factory running 24/7 or 6000 hrs per year for years. Yes they will spend more on oil up front that they spend on the pump but.. When you are talking a line shut down that costs $100's or $1000's per minute down time, the oil is cheap.
How many home owner logsplitters run 100 hrs per year?
That was the basis behind my earlier post.
Roy
I mentioned earlier, and what you guys seem to be forgetting, is that a 11gpm 2-stage logsplitter pump is NOT really an 11gpm pump. The 11 gpm is ONLY at 600 psi or so. It is ONLY a ~3gpm pump up to the 3000psi.
SO...3 gpm times a factor of 4 is 12 gallon resivoir. And that is about right.
An ACTUAL 11 gpm pump would need about a 25 hp motor to run. AND if you were indeed running 11GPM @ max PSI (3000 or so), you'd better darn have more than a 10-15 gallon tank:confused2: