BSawyer
Member
Hello all!
I posted this in the attachments forum on 9/1, but haven't gotten any responses so I thought I'd try it here also. Hope that's OK.
I picked up a used log splitter last year and thanks to advice found here, got the right connectors to hook up to my M6800, flushed the old fluid and split a bit of wood last year.
The way I would use it was to take the hyd. lever control on the tractor and push or pull it one way or the other until it locked into place.
Then I would move back to the splitter and use the control lever on it to expand or retract the cylinder to split the wood.
The only bad thing was that when I expanded the cylinder too far or retracted it all the way, the splitter cylinder would quit moving and the pump seemed to make a different noise. The only way I could get it to reset was to move the hyd lever on the M6800 thru it's positions and then lock it back down. Then at that point I could resume splitting, again using the splitter's hyd control lever.
Any body have any ideas what is wrong? I don't know if the problem lies in the log splitter hydraulics or maybe there is a over-pressure relief valve on the M6800 that needs adjustment. I'm not strong in hydraulics workings...
The M6800 has less than 40 hours on it, and is my first.
Let me know if you need any more details.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v469/bowfan/TractorStuff/splitter.jpg
I posted this in the attachments forum on 9/1, but haven't gotten any responses so I thought I'd try it here also. Hope that's OK.
I picked up a used log splitter last year and thanks to advice found here, got the right connectors to hook up to my M6800, flushed the old fluid and split a bit of wood last year.
The way I would use it was to take the hyd. lever control on the tractor and push or pull it one way or the other until it locked into place.
Then I would move back to the splitter and use the control lever on it to expand or retract the cylinder to split the wood.
The only bad thing was that when I expanded the cylinder too far or retracted it all the way, the splitter cylinder would quit moving and the pump seemed to make a different noise. The only way I could get it to reset was to move the hyd lever on the M6800 thru it's positions and then lock it back down. Then at that point I could resume splitting, again using the splitter's hyd control lever.
Any body have any ideas what is wrong? I don't know if the problem lies in the log splitter hydraulics or maybe there is a over-pressure relief valve on the M6800 that needs adjustment. I'm not strong in hydraulics workings...
The M6800 has less than 40 hours on it, and is my first.
Let me know if you need any more details.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v469/bowfan/TractorStuff/splitter.jpg