Splitter accumulating table

[blueone]

Has anyone made anything like this [see pdf link]. I'm thinking it could hold approximately 8-10 rounds at a time. I feel it would save time, load it up split it all and start again. Think I'll try one from scrap lumber to try. Any suggestion accepted.

 

[GE222]

Sounds like a great idea. Good for keeping a second helper busy. Also maybe, have it on a very slight incline, just enough to help move them, but not promote an avalanche of wood, or pinched fingers.

 

[blueone]

Yea that's what I was thinking and maybe some thing to pull wood if it won't roll. I also have a table on the helper side to catch chunks of big rounds on the first split, so I would use it as a stop. New table would be lower and will stay where I do all my splitting.

 

[beenthere]

I will sometimes use the carry-all on the 3 ph to load up rounds, and then work off that. On the other hand, I don't mind getting the extra back relief when going a few feet to pick up the next round. Being bent over the splitter for round after round like when a second person is bringing the supply, gets to the back muscles.
Need a way on that log chute to handle big rounds.

 

[Wayne_H]

I did make one for my splitter. It needs some tweaking still, but it keeps the split wood off the floor, and I or the helper don't have to bend over to pick it up to either stack it or put it on for another split. Mine you can take off for transportation.

Wayne

 

[blueone]

I scabbed something together this evening and will try it out after the Big Snow this weekend. Here are some pictures of the concept.

 

[blueone]

WOW!!!! Wayne that's quite a setup. Where in Maryland are you? I'm in WV Eastern Panhandle, Falling Waters.

Are you in the Military? If so where, Air Guard in Martinsburg? Father retired from the Motor Pool there

 

[J_J]

I did make one for my splitter. It needs some tweaking still, but it keeps the split wood off the floor, and I or the helper don't have to bend over to pick it up to either stack it or put it on for another split. Mine you can take off for transportation.

Wayne

It looks like you have one of those automatic log splitter valves. How is that working for you.

 

[jimgerken]

I cut and transport all my wood in 7 foot chunks. Doing this makes it easy to use the tractor to do all the lifting (with fork tines on the loader). So they are cut to 7 in the woods, lifted with the tractor, hauled with the tractor or loaded and hauled with a trailer to the "processing area", then cut three times with chainsaw to about 21 inches final length. I have been thinking that it would be IDEAL to bring those 7 footers to a device like you guys are discussing here. I would want the "accumulator table" to allow me to chainsaw the pcs setting in it to final length. So, I'd unload them from the trailer with the loader, and place them on the table, then cut to them to length, then slide them along on the table to the splitter, with no lifting so far in the whole process.
After the splitting, they fall on a concrete slab in front of my old wood storage barn, and I use the loader again, to slide all the pcs into the barn under cover, still no lifting. The wood is not stacked in the barn, just piled (plenty of room). Eventually I go and get it with the loader bucket and dump it next to the burner.
I'd be tempted to put some kind of chaindrive or hydraulic pusher system in the table. The investment in time to automate this seems like time well spent. Kinda like a poor man's processor.

 

[Wayne_H]

It looks like you have one of those automatic log splitter valves. How is that working for you.

The auto valve works great, I was not too sure about it at first, but I am sold on it now. Although as you can see, installing it while not hard, means you need several more hoses.

Somebody asked where I am, we're in Davidsonville area of Maryland, more snow here now than when I was a kid in upstate New York!

Wayne