PTO Log Splitter Project

[MadDog]

Nah. This past weekend the weather was nice, so the FEL and I worked on finishing digging the pond that I've been excavating since last summer and using the borrow to fill in behind a retaining wall that I also built last summer.

I'm at the stage of cutting the anchors for the cylinder. Cutting 1" plate with my plasma cutter is a significant job, albeit not as tough as cutting it by other means. I thought my plasma cutter (Powermax 1000) would handle it easily; it can cut 1" but you have to move pretty slow. Problem is, if you start going just a bit too fast and it hasn't cut all the way through yet, you start throwing the melted kerf into the slot that you had just cut. .... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Like everything else new, a learning experience.

Once I get the anchors cut and ground down to uniform size, I have to drill 1 1/2" holes in each for the "pins." That should also be an interesting process --1 1/2" anular cutter in a 3/4" Jacobs Superchuck, at slowest drill press speed with lots and lots of cutting oil.

May make some progress on that evenings this week and will take some more pics when I've got the anchors cut and installed.

 

[cp1969]

I don't know what an anular cutter is, so maybe it will work fine. Drilling 1 1/2" holes in plate that is an inch thick doesn't sound like fun. A n/c mill with circle interp would be my preferred method and would make short work of it, but I don't own a mill and have no idea what a shop would charge. It shouldn't be much--the only tooling you'd need would be a vise and there would be very little setup. I'm guessing a good n/c mill could put those holes in in about 15 minutes apiece, if not less.

 

[cp1969]

Bump.

MadDog, how's it coming?

 

[cp1969]

Bump.

MadDog, how's it coming?

 

[cp1969]

Bump to top.

 

[Piney Woods Rooter]

Bump to top.

Wonder what happened to MadDog?

 

[marimus]

...don't ask me why ... My wife already asked and I didn't have what she considered an adequate answer.

Wonder what happened to MadDog?

Yeah...I wonder

 

[Piney Woods Rooter]

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Originally Posted by Maddog
...don't ask me why ... My wife already asked and I didn't have what she considered an adequate answer.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Piney Woods Rooter
Wonder what happened to MadDog?

Yeah...I wonder

 

[ovrszd]

You guys have been bumping this since June. Let's just let it go okay.

 

[marimus]

You guys have been bumping this since June. Let's just let it go okay.

awww ok. Its like my favourite sit-com just got cancelled

 

[rdbrumfield]

For me and lifting those heavy ones, I put together this one. It has a T type knife so it just takes off two pieces at the bottom with each stroke. The hyd pump is a large one, so the 540 pto speed is ok, but sometimes I hookup the small kubota I have for the 1000 pto speed. Works quite well.

 

[cp1969]

MadDog, MadDog,

Where for art thou, MadDog?

Oh, MadDog, we hardly knew ye!