3pt Hitch wood splitter advice needed

ahb414

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Good Evening

A wood splitter not far from me came up for sale for a good price and I just wanted to make sure I have not overlooked something. I will attach a picture of the splitter at the bottom.

My tractor is a B414 and it has open center hydraulics, I plan to run the splitter from the rear remote that is plumbed into the valve body in front of the seat. Then once its hooked up I will just tie the valve back and run it from the lever on the splitter.

The splitter is currently being run from a jd 2320 which has open center hydraulics as well according to the internet.

My concern was I read in another thread that if you "tie the lever back" another user warned that when the splitter valve is in neutral all the fluid will pass over the pressure relief valve and cause a lot of heat. But from my understanding this would only be the case if you were using a closed center spool valve on the splitter with an open center hydraulic system on the tractor.

Does this all sound right?
Thanks
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This post was edited by ahb414 on 09/04/2021 at 07:19 pm.
 
An open center system always circulates the oil through the
valve thats the difference between the open center and
closed center
 
Dad was running one the way you want to in 990 degree heat for afternoons on end with no problems that have shown up. That was on a 574 diesel.
 

It's not a good practice to operate an open center valve on a closed center hyd system because to do so will cause main hyd pump to be depleted of supply oil & cause pump to cavitate/

Log splitter should operate on B414
 
It should work just fine, as long as both valves are open center. My father ran a short wood skidder that way behind a JD 350 crawler for 25 years.
 

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