Mechanical log splitter (not hydraulic)
Has anyone in OZ seen one of these?
Check out this video on YouTube:
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It's a DR rapid-fire log splitter. It's not hydraulic but 2 flywheels attached to a pinion gear. There is a neat animation in the video showing the cam leaver and rack/pinion.
I was looking at buying or building a hydraulic splitter however this system makes a hell of a lot more sense.
Do we have these in OZ yet?
It seams like a very fast way of splitting firewood..
It would be a straight fwd construction with farming the rack/pinion and balancing the flywheels to a machine shop. Time is always a factor I guess and it would be cheaper just to buy it... Unless you wanted to beef it up a lot. One of these with a 4 or 6 way splitter would be great... Hook it up to a PTO on a tractor and you would be splitting fast.