Log splitter as metal brake

[bobodu]

Didn't take a picture of the setup but it's easy to explain.

I just took a piece of angle iron and rounded off the outside of the "V" a bit and slipped that over the wedge. Then I cut a "V" notch down the length of a short piece of 4" X 4" wood and butted that against the ram. The metal to be bent goes in between.

This is some 3/16" diamond plate aluminum that I just effortlessly bent for trailer fenders.

 

[J_J]

A little ingenuity and common sense goes a long way. You can also bend up to 2 to 3 in pipe if you set up the rollers right.

 

[milkman]

Great idea, I'll use that trick next time I need to bend some metal. I straightened the edge on my loader bucket with my wood splitter. I bent the bottom of my bucket prying out a stump so I removed the bucket from the loader and placed a railroad tie on the foot of the splitter, turned the bucket with the bottom side up with 6X6 blocks of wood at each end of the bucket and used the wedge to push the bow out of the bucket edge, shoved it past straight and it sprung back straight when I raised the wedge.

 

[BearKiller]

I've burned wood all of my life, without ever having a hydraulic wood-splitter, or even needing one, until after reading this thread.

When one thinks about it, there are a host of non-wood-burning applications that a splitter can be set up for; such as : pressing bearings, etc.

 

[TBX500]

ive used mine to break the bead on stubborn tires

 

[JohnDeere4300]

Didn't take a picture of the setup but it's easy to explain.

I just took a piece of angle iron and rounded off the outside of the "V" a bit and slipped that over the wedge. Then I cut a "V" notch down the length of a short piece of 4" X 4" wood and butted that against the ram. The metal to be bent goes in between.

This is some 3/16" diamond plate aluminum that I just effortlessly bent for trailer fenders.

Nice job on the fenders

 

[GE222]

Several years ago up in Northern Wisconsin at a friends cottage, I used my log splitter to bend some large strap hinges for a broken gas grill. It made some really nice bends. I have often thought about making a set of bending dies for it. Maybe some day!

 

[tiger9297]

I was thinking the same thing about making some dies, but what would you make them out of? Doesn't seem like wood would retain it's shape after much use.

 

[J_J]

This is my feeble attempt to show a log splitter being used as a pipe bender, a tire bead popper, and an angle bender looking down on the log splitter. There is a third one, very faint.

 

[bobodu]

When I bent the fenders,I cut a NOTCH in the 4 x 4 and pushed that with the ram to the wedge It folded toward the END of the beam and not back toward the ram.

 

[J_J]

Some have the wedge on the ram, and others on the end. Either way will work. You could easily change the head to different configurations