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[WinterDeere]

That's not exactly true, it depends on the splitters design, I split some big wood,

Yep. All true. And that's a really nice splitter design, Rob.

I should have said my comments were mostly applicable to the single-wedge splitters of the store-bought variety. Once you get into custom or commercial stuff, you can definitely design around these limitations.

BTW, how is that splitter powered? Is it hydraulic take-off from the tractor?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Yep. All true. And that's a really nice splitter design, Rob.

I should have said my comments were mostly applicable to the single-wedge splitters of the store-bought variety. Once you get into custom or commercial stuff, you can definitely design around these limitations.

BTW, how is that splitter powered? Is it hydraulic take-off from the tractor?

Hydraulic pump on the PTO, it has good power and good cycle times.

SR

 

[ning]

I have an old yard machines beater I picked up a few years ago for $300; the single splitter (all the pump can handle) is at the end of the beam.
If it's a mid-sized round, I usually can hold onto the splits that need to go again before they fall off (there's some wings kinda like a table).
If it's a huge round, I pull a pin and swing the entire unit vertical and keep the round on the ground.

Overall the unit works pretty well; it's definitely not a rocket but gets through some very stringy knotty oak that I couldn't begin to split with a splitting maul or hammer and wedge. Gotta love the short videos of people exploding rounds with a simple axe; yeah I can do that too if it's a straight-grain wood. Splitting maul just bounces off of many of my rounds, I no longer bother with manual splitting unless it's pine.

 

[IXLR8]

I have a 16lb rock splitting maul that I ground down and put a cutting edge on it. If I can swing it, I can split it... except Hickory. I'm coming up on 70, I am not swinging that thing any more. Saving up for a hydraulic splitter, hope to have it by this spring.

 

[Alan46]

Either way, a logg catcher/table is priceless! I'm hoping to build one for my splitter this winter.

This is what I did maybe 5 years ago, all I did was add another support after using it for awhile! I don’t weld so I had to make do!
It’s a Dirty Hand tools 22 ton!

 

[WinterDeere]

Going vertical is one place where the wedge on the cylinder rod tends to work better. I was doing a lot of huge wood for a few years, it seemed I wasn't bringing home anything under 40" diameter for awhile, all oak and ash. Going vertical was basically the only way to process those mothers, even if I quartered them with a saw first. The largest rounds I brought home were over 1400 lb. each.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I like to work off of the carry all when I go vertical for the big rounds. They slide nicely on the deck so it is easy to position them and I don't have to hold up the unsupported end of the block to make it align with the beam it just sits there on it's own.

gg

 

[Sawyer Rob]

We do cut quite a few big rounds, this is a dead white oak log,

When it's time to split, they get rolled right onto the splitters beam,

When I'm alone, I saw them into quarters right on the trailer or wagon,

and then slide them right down a board onto the splitter and split them.

The 4-way has little wings on it, so the pieces don't easily fall off when splitting, but when splitting uncut rounds this big, one guy stands on the offside and holds that half to wait its turn to be rolled over back onto the splitters beam.

SR

 

[Gordon Gould]

This is what I did maybe 5 years ago, all I did was add another support after using it for awhile! I don’t weld so I had to make do!
It’s a Dirty Hand tools 22 ton!View attachment 1436618View attachment 1436619View attachment 1436620

Nothing wrong with a plywood table in my book - I have one too

I did glue a metal skin on it though so I wouldn't gouge it up so fast.

gg

 

[Runner]

Spent some time this morning bucking and stacking the elms I cut down last week. The old Sabre got in on the action moving some rounds and splits to the wood bunker.