Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Molalla1]

That's a nice row of splits you have there Gordon . . .

 

[BackRoad]

Another nice day here today, my wife said we should split this load of wood,

So off we go with the splitter to get rrr done, we saved most of the bigger rounds for last and this was the last one,

and we split it right into my half cord boxes,

That wagon load made just under two cords boxed splits...

SR

Mr. Rob, what do you estimate your cycle time is with the PTO splitter?

You mentioned your tractor sips diesel - what RPM do you generally run it when splitting?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

IF, you let it go all the way full cycle, 10 seconds, more than fast enough to keep more than one person busy.

Depends on how ambitious I am, around 1400 RPM's...

SR

 

[BackRoad]

That's pretty good...I saw one at an auction this last weekend and thought of you.

I had heard that a PTO splitter was slow...but 10 secs at 1400 RPM sound pretty usable.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

That's pretty good...I saw one at an auction this last weekend and thought of you.

I had heard that a PTO splitter was slow...but 10 secs at 1400 RPM sound pretty usable.

If the splitter is plugged into the tractor's remotes, they can be slow, but mine is self-contained and has a hydraulic pump on the pto shaft.

That speeds things up quite a bit.

SR

 

[goeduck]

If the splitter is plugged into the tractor's remotes, they can be slow, but mine is self-contained and has a hydraulic pump on the pto shaft.

That speeds things up quite a bit.

SR

Is there a hydraulic tank on here that I am not seeing?

Edit, maybe I see an orange/red tank on the back side of the cylinder.

 

[scaredychicken]

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Is there a hydraulic tank on here that I am not seeing?

Edit, maybe I see an orange/red tank on the back side of the cylinder.

You can see it better in this pict.,

SR

 

[Jstpssng]

If the splitter is plugged into the tractor's remotes, they can be slow, but mine is self-contained and has a hydraulic pump on the pto shaft.

That speeds things up quite a bit.

SR

I had a lightweight 3pth splitter which my father had made. I used the pump for my Cadplan backhoe to run it. It was only single stage so not really strong, but still better than a splitting maul.

I enjoy splitting wood by hand but it's rather time consuming

 

[hunt4570]

(I'm not quite right am I)

I'm not sure any of us here are....