Thread: firewood splitter

Looking very interesting Carl. Glad to see your looking into infeed, going to be interesting how your going to get them lined up, but I'd hate to load the 500 dia stubs into place by hand

Oooh, wish I had one of those when my neighbour and I split half a dozen Mountain Ash a few weeks ago. We hired one of those pansy splitters. Did okay but combined with chainsawing the logs, my back is still complaining. Still, I heard they're paying $300 a tonne for redgum here in Melbourne whereas up Eildon way, about $75 a tonne. Go figure.

but whatever happened to good old fashioned hard work

Originally Posted by artme

but whatever happened to good old fashioned hard work

Mate you can "hard work" ya butt over to my place if ya like, then I'll start selling firewood, but until then I'll bust firewood for my own needs the ol fashioned way, but tbh no-one in their right mind would do it 'selling' firewood

Originally Posted by Sigidi

Mate you can "hard work" ya butt over to my place if ya like, then I'll start selling firewood, but until then I'll bust firewood for my own needs the ol fashioned way, but tbh no-one in their right mind would do it 'selling' firewood

True!!!

I'm bloody glad my axe wielding days are over and done. Used to have to cut logs into blocks with a crosscut saw and then split ém

Very well done, I'd like to see a video of it working if every you make one.I made a conical screw splitter with 10 hp motor and it wouldn't touch our hardwood so now its a charcoal crusher.Using 2 rams was a good idea to keep to available componants.

Regards Vince.

Haven't got the conveyor working yet as I need hydraulic hoses and a variable flow screw valve that I know I have in the shed but can't find but it works great and even unloading the split wood out the bottom by hand and hand loading each block it will do 3 m3 / hour.

It's got so much power I bent one of the 150mm long cutters that are 16mm thick metal gullotine blades into a horse shoe.

I will get a vid when I get back on Sunday.

I think it works better with 2 rams than with 1 it helps spread the force over the whole area not just one place.

Originally Posted by weisyboy

It's got so much power I bent one of the 150mm long cutters that are 16mm thick metal gullotine blades into a horse shoe.

Carl

You are a very inventive man.

I wondered if the blades have bent because as the timber is split it widens the diametre of the log and there is nowhere for the splits to expand. This would be particularly true for the piece between the two long cutters.

The other possibility is where there is a knot or branch. There is a lot of extra resistance and perhaps the blades were not up to the job. A piece of old grader blade cutting edge would probably do a similar job to the guillotine blade if you are running out of cutting edges.

I hope you welded them in position using low hydrogen rods or something similar.

The conveyor is a nice touch.

Regards
Paul

: 2tsup:

Carl

Very nice job. Watch out for the fingers. Those rams have a fair bit of grunt and it would be no contest if a body part got in the way.

Looks like you can use a natural bump to load down into the truck. That's a change from the elevator in the previous pictures.

regards
Paul

the elevator just didnt work effectively but i have other plans for it. the shoot works great.

Good stuphph Carl!!!

You need me there to organize the pile to save all that walking!!