31 and tired of using an axe
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Looks good. Is it a 3600rpm motor? ... I thot the Split Fire was an inertia splitter. :confused2: You used the rail and adapted hydraulic?
Ed of all trades
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Looks good to me. I know you will enjoy it.
Yes its a 3600 rpm motor and I believe your thinking of rapid fire log splitters. This one is hydraulic and splits both ways. It has a 3.5 in cylinder and is making 11-12 tons of force, I'm around 2300psi give or take with the 5hp motor. I went with a 13gpm pump thinking I'd be able to get 2250psi from it and i seem to be right there. It will split all but the gnarliest wood and with that all you have to do is take some edge splits first. I went with speed, sizing it for 13gpm vs 3000psi. I like the trade off so far. Also loving the characteristics of an electric motor it hits some wood zero bogging down, rock solid 3600rpm just the draw on the motor spikes.
I'm very glad I added the two jack legs to the rear, used for leveling scaffolding it makes the rear end feel like its bolted to the ground. It also has a 10/3 100' cord so I'm fine with a voltage drop of around 2%. I'll try to get a video up of it in action this next week or so.
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Looks great should work well . my only reservation would be the hydraulic cylinder itself - are you sure that 11-12 tons of force will be enough . We use a 25 ton unit and although it has never failed to split a round , I have run into some very large pieces that took a few actuations to finally split the wood.
mikehaugen
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That seems awfully small for a 5hp motor, off the top of my head doesnt that pull like 40-50 amps? Or are we talking 3 phase?
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Not gonna get 3 phase with only 3 wires and still have a ground - I'm thinking 240/single phase? Works out to just over 2% loss -
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I used the continuous amps my 5 horse baldor/80 gal. compressor uses (23) ... Steve
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I used the continuous amps my 5 horse baldor/80 gal. compressor uses (23) ... Steve
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This 5 HP 230v motor only draws about 27 amps.
5 HP 3450 RPM 230 VAC 182TZ CROP DRYER MOTOR
5 HP 1740 RPM 230 VAC 215T EXTRA TORQ FARM MOTOR
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Yes it's 240v single phase 2 hots and a ground. unloaded the motor draws 8A has an FLA of 19.8A and a service factor of 1.15 right now I have it set to about 20.5 amps
The force from the splitter seems to be more then enough for almost all the wood I get. So far I've only had trouble with 2 large twisty pieces. They were both over 30" in diameter. It was just a matter of cutting off the sides first, rather than splitting down the middle. They would've required splitting into more than four pieces anyway so there's no real time lost just need to position the wood correctly to split a twisty piece that large.
Most of what I split is straight grained 12 to 18 inch and the splitter hardly goes over 600 psi.
The force from the splitter seems to be more then enough for almost all the wood I get. So far I've only had trouble with 2 large twisty pieces. They were both over 30" in diameter. It was just a matter of cutting off the sides first, rather than splitting down the middle. They would've required splitting into more than four pieces anyway so there's no real time lost just need to position the wood correctly to split a twisty piece that large.
Most of what I split is straight grained 12 to 18 inch and the splitter hardly goes over 600 psi.
