Splitter accumulating table

[forester2]

This may be a dumb question, but what's an automatic splitter valve?

 

[J_J]

This may be a dumb question, but what's an automatic splitter valve?

An automatic log splitter valve is this one below. You push both handles forward, and the splitter splits the log and auto returns and then returns to neutral. Once you set the levers, you can get ready for the split log, or get another log ready.

https://www.surpluscenter.com/item.asp?UID=3176020808502127&item=9-6587&catname=hydraulic

 

[smfcpacfp]

I have a 4 by 4 table top and frame which sits on my eye beam and axle. I built this over 30 years ago.

 

[ovrszd]

An automatic log splitter valve is this one below. You push both handles forward, and the splitter splits the log and auto returns and then returns to neutral. Once you set the levers, you can get ready for the split log, or get another log ready.

https://www.surpluscenter.com/item.asp?UID=3176020808502127&item=9-6587&catname=hydraulic

Wow, didn't know they made such a thing!!! Where's the Safety Police when ya need 'em.

 

[Wayne_H]

Wow, didn't know they made such a thing!!! Where's the Safety Police when ya need 'em.

That is a good question. I spoke to several manufacturers before I built this, and what they said made sense. Don't put an autocycle valve on a vertical splitter because on those you always end up putting your hand on top of the wood where the wedge hits. On the horizontal splitter you put your hand on the side of the log, and the wedge won't split your hand in half. It made sense to me.

I think the real safety thing on my splitter is that the operator could hurt the helper with the log lift if the helper is too close and it catches them going up or down.

Wayne

 

[jimmysisson]

Wayne I like your setup, esp. the lift as I get older. The main reason for a table I think is at the outfeed end, so the splits don't fall to the ground = more bending. I have a (cruder) lift and outfeed table combined, on the off side from where I stand. I split a lot of big stuff like Wayne showed, so the first split is often bigger than I want to wrestle with to resplit. I try to make the first split so the larger piece lands on the table.
Blueone I think you're on to something, but with the gnarly stuff I cut down the chute you're trying would catch lots of stubs and bark and jam up I think. Maybe if it was wider? Let us know how it works out, cause it's a good idea.
We all want to have a rig more like a processor, and try lots of ways to get there.
Jim

 

[Wayne_H]

Jimmy:

Thanks. I have not had any problems with stuff catching on the table, but I have had to reinforce the table. Some of the large oaks weigh a few hundred pounds or so, and it is just easier to keep them at wedge level than picking them back up from the ground. Also, the stacker does a lot less bending.

Wayne

 

[blueone]

Just an update with some pic but still have not got in the woods with it yet, to much snow and mud. Anyway it gives a better idea of the concept.

 

[OrangeinWis]

Helping my son make wood, my thoughts exactly. How many steps can be eliminated in the handling of the wood before it is burned, including as little manual lifting as possible! This is what I came up with. Pick logs off the pile, 1,2, sometimes 3 at a time, cut off of the forks into 30-40 rounds, drop the forks, and scoop the rounds into the accumulating table. The alum. channel was free (machinery tear-out), hardware and 2x10 decking 20.00, hydraulic log-lift expensive, working with the kid priceless.

 

[Arkaybee]

4thand26:
How about some more pictures and details of those cool-looking
FEL-mounted forks you show in the photo. It appears that they are quick to attach and dismount if they are held on by those pins on top of the bucket. I would like to see it in more detail and with your explanations of how they work.

Did you build them yourself? Thanks for your response.

ARKAYBEE