Logsplitter 2.0

[LD1]

I dont want to be too critical, as I am of the "try it an see" and if it dont work modify it mentality.....but.....I think you will wish the pushplate was either taller, or had taller gussets behind it.

 

[rswyan]

Lookin good.

Thanks.

It's nice when that pile o scraps you hang on to comes in handy rather than just being a pile....

Yup ... I tend to hang on to steel and other raw material if I think there is any possibility that I have a need or use for it in the future.

Part of the key to making it handy is to keep it somewhat organized ... so you can actually find stuff.

I have 8' of 2' deep shelves that I use to store the shorter drops/scrap - where everything is sorted by material type (normal, non-stainless steel, stainless, aluminum) and then sorted by shape (pipe, solid, angle, tube, etc.), a rack made of 3 heavy duty brackets attached to the front of those shelves that will accommodate 4'+ and 8'+ lengths of material , and I most recently added some vertical storage - for the stuff that's shorter than 4' but longer than 2'.

Makes it pretty easy to just take a look and see if there is something that will work for whatever you're trying to do.

 

[rswyan]

I dont want to be too critical, as I am of the "try it an see" and if it dont work modify it mentality.....but.....I think you will wish the pushplate was either taller, or had taller gussets behind it.

Yeah ... I've been chewing on that one myself recently ...

I can sure see the latter (taller gussets) ... but I have a hard time wrapping my head around making the face of the push plate itself any taller ... it's already over 12" tall.

Might hafta see what I have on hand to throw in there

 

[LD1]

Yeah ... I've been chewing on that one myself recently ...

I can sure see the latter (taller gussets) ... but I have a hard time wrapping my head around making the face of the push plate itself any taller ... it's already over 12" tall.

Might hafta see what I have on hand to throw in there

Sorry, I meant shorter on the plate.

It has alot unsupported above the gussets. So to reduce the unsupported part, shorter plate or taller gussets

 

[rswyan]

Push block assembly, assembled with hardware, courtesy of the good folks @ TSC.

Hardware is 3/8 Grade 8. The bolts are mounted upside down to make it easier to tell if one of them is coming loose (by looking at the exposed thread length above the nuts):

 

[rswyan]

Face of push block with the discs welded on. Still needs a little grinding and clean up ... not the purtiest thing but it should be functional:

Saw one that I think oldtimer posted that used short lengths of pipe on the face ... I really liked that idea ... but had already welded these on.

 

[rswyan]

Sorry, I meant shorter on the plate.

I suspected that was what you meant ... but I wanted to be sure

It has alot unsupported above the gussets. So to reduce the unsupported part, shorter plate or taller gussets

Yeah ...

I've got some 1" square cold roll solid rod ... what do you think about cutting a couple pieces of that @ 45 degrees and using it to tie the top of the vertical plate to the rear of the horizontal bottom plate ?

Wouldn't be as good as taller gussets I'm sure, but it might be of some value ... ? :confused3:

 

[rswyan]

Took the torch and put it to some 3/4" hot roll solid round to bend up a couple of handles to stick on the 2" square tube the trailer coupler goes on. Not perfectly identical and the one still needs trimmed a bit, but they should work:

 

[rswyan]

Can't remember if I posted anything on this or not previously. Start of the log lift.

It's made mostly from 1 1/2" x 3/16" square tube ... used some pipe I had for one cross brace. The square tube is attached to the angle on the left at a slight angle ... so that when you roll a round onto it, the round should want to go towards the splitter and not roll off.

The red sheet/plate came from the infeed chute on my chipper (which I'm in the process of widening) and will be used to as part of the "deck" on the lift:

 

[murphy1244]

Can't remember if I posted anything on this or not previously. Start of the log lift.

It's made mostly from 1 1/2" x 3/16" square tube ... used some pipe I had for one cross brace. The square tube is attached to the angle on the left at a slight angle ... so that when you roll a round onto it, the round should want to go towards the splitter and not roll off.

The red sheet/plate came from the infeed chute on my chipper (which I'm in the process of widening) and will be used to as part of the "deck" on the lift:

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This is what I like to see.