Upside Down Woodsplitter Build

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I am working on it...well a homemade rock picker!

I am clearing forest into farmland here so I have a lot of rocks that need to be picked, and picking rocks by hand is the WORST! I tried to get my (4) daughters into it, but they were not impressed; to the tune where now we use rock picking as a punishment threat! (You can do your homework or pick rocks...choice is yours!)

I have found that to be successful at farming, going into debt and buying everything need just is not going to cut it, so I build homemade equipment, or modify what I have already kicking around.

 

[GreatWhitehunter]

Very cool, a video of it in operation would be great!. How is the Wallenstein trailer holding up? They're priced attractively but seem to have some" weak links" in the design compared to there manufactures. You're thoughts?

Matt

 

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f it had two cups holders that may just be the most useful contraption ever. Sometimes the better half doesn't get my text to restock the energy drinks in a timely manner

 

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Very cool, a video of it in operation would be great!. How is the Wallenstein trailer holding up? They're priced attractively but seem to have some" weak links" in the design compared to there manufactures. You're thoughts?

Matt

I actually thought it was the other way around. I thought they were pricey and the others were inexpensive and made to match. I am hardly brand loyal, I just thought I over-paid for this machine.

Not that I am not happy with it. In a years time it has paid for itself. I am happy with that, and keep finding things to add to it to make it rather a Swiss Army Knife on this farm. Surprisingly the thing I use it the least for (logging) was the reason I bought it.

I lost the market on 8 foot pulpwood so I have been doing tree length wood with my skidder instead, but this time of year, moving round bales for my sheep is a big help. It is really fast at doing that.

 

[bcp]

Lots of ideas:

upside down wood splitter - Google Search

Bruce

 

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Lots of ideas:

upside down wood splitter - Google Search

Bruce

There are a lot of different upside down woodsplitter designs out there, but many have one major design flaw and that is they cannot be rotated to pick up a round to split it. In order to do that, like on the skid steers, they must be spun around to get the right angle. A mini-excavator is a little bit better because it has 365 degree rotation, but still lacks the ability to really maneuver the woodsplitter to get on the round.

Mounting the upside down woodsplitter on a log loader solves a lot of those issues. Not only can an operator swing the boom around, they can reach out and in, but also rotate the woodsplitter 365 degrees once they are where they want it. That is a lot of flexibility and means a person can split a poke of wood with the tractor sitting in just one spot before it needs to move.

None of the other ways are really "wrong', just a little more limited.

 

[bcp]

I was thinking more about ideas for the design and mounting of the splitter itself than what it was mounted on. The articulation of the log loader makes a big difference in ease of use.

Bruce