Log splitter build

[deanwerden]

Buddy stopped over last night, had a few beers and ran some beads

 

[LD1]

Looking good.

 

[Leejohn]

Should put a drain in the bottom.

 

[CCWKen]

Should put a drain in the bottom.

Ditto on that. That's where the water will accumulate. You should make it easy to change the oil and filter like any other piece of equipment.

 

[deanwerden]

I am planning on a drain, my suction strainer should be in Tommorow, hopefully have the tank welded up with all the fittings and pressure tested this weekend

 

[LD1]

Where are you sourcing parts from?

When I built my splitter, most of my hydraulic stuff, like the cylinder, strainer, return filter, pump, etc I got from splitez

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

There are usually some good deals to be had here: Surplus Center

 

[deanwerden]

The only things I really have to buy is the strainer and a valve eventually, I have a 3 spool I think I'm going to use for now jist to get things operational

 

[deanwerden]

Just need to add an end plate cut the 4 way tube down and weld the axle on



Just over 10 pounds of rod in this thing so far

 

[LD1]

Did you ever mention what size cylinder you would be using?

A potential weak spot I see is the cylinder base anchor/eyelet. Just surface welding to the top of the beam like that. Have seen several splitters rip off a connection like that. Welds were good, it rips out a chunk of beam with it.

I got some pointers from some good fabricators on here, and here is how I ended up attaching the 1" thick wedge and anchor block on my splitter.