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Log splitter revisited

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guido

03-16-2008 07:17:30

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What is your guys favorate splitter. This is mine.
Guido.

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guido

03-18-2008 09:36:55

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Re: Log splitter revisited in reply to guido, 03-16-2008 07:17:30

Here is my log splitter. Built in the 80's.
New wedge now and a new cylinder, new hitch the rest is the same.
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Sam from WA

03-18-2008 09:29:46

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Re: Log splitter revisited in reply to guido, 03-16-2008 07:17:30

The log splitter I"ve got is one we built more than 30 years ago. Powered by a Wisconsin VE4 24hp engine off a New Holland 76 Baler. I have the baler the engine goes on, in restored condition, too! That splitter will split some seriously troubled and twisted logs without even thinking of slowing down. I have put a 4 way wedge on it, but went back to a regular wedge, mostly because i found i couldn"t split logs real consistent unless they were the same size.

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jose bagge

03-17-2008 15:48:02

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Re: Log splitter - have you ever seen... in reply to guido, 03-16-2008 07:17:30

have you ever seen the PTO driven ones that look like a giant wood screw? All mechanical, no hydraulic? How do they work???

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VaTom

03-18-2008 04:31:33

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Re: Log splitter - have you ever seen... in reply to jose bagge, 03-17-2008 15:48:02

Jose, I have a PTO screw splitter. Works extremely well. Guys who lease hunting here were watching me split last fall. Faster splitting than any of their hydraulic splitters, they said.

What I"ve never seen, I"m told extremely fast, is a flywheel-powered splitter. Don"t know if they"re still produced. Small engine spinning the flywheel.

I"d stick to my screw though. Anything faster wouldn"t be much use. No extra engine to maintain, works great with a compact tractor. But I limit my rounds to 24" d., still have to pick them up as I never bothered to set up a stationary platform.

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jose bagge

03-18-2008 16:05:05

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Re: Log splitter - have you ever seen... in reply to VaTom, 03-18-2008 04:31:33

There were two at an auction over in Culpepper last year and they went for almost zippy, but I'd never seen one so I passed. Sounds like I should have stuck up my hand!

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VaTom

03-18-2008 17:11:19

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Re: Log splitter - have you ever seen... in reply to jose bagge, 03-18-2008 16:05:05

Jose, mine was bought at auction in Albemarle county, ready to work. $35, one of the better buys I"ve experienced. Wasn"t even there, my machinist bought it for me.

Many on this forum have been extremely frightened. Looks to me like any PTO powered device, dangerous when you can"t shut it off. Not a problem for me.

Certainly the only splitter I ever intend to own.

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2x4

03-17-2008 21:18:13

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Re: Log splitter - have you ever seen... in reply to jose bagge, 03-17-2008 15:48:02

Mine works fine. I have the kind that uses 2 rollers, one with spocket & chain to drive the auger, & you drive a car or truck up on the rollers, & the spinning wheel drives the roller that turns the auger. Works very well. Auger is geared slow but it"ll split nearly anything. Can"t use it with 4wd engaged, all wheel drive, etc. Used it off & on since 1980, whenever I burn wood. They also made tractor pto-powered one. Log Aug was the company.

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jose bagge

03-18-2008 16:03:30

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Re: Log splitter - have you ever seen... in reply to 2x4, 03-17-2008 21:18:13

Never even heard of one powered that way- sounds cool! got a picture?

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guido

03-17-2008 16:07:58

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Re: Log splitter - have you ever seen... in reply to jose bagge, 03-17-2008 15:48:02

Hello Jose bagge
I have never seen a screw type splitter working.
You can't beat hydraulics for serious splitting work. I built mine years ago, if I find the pictures i'll post them.
Guido.

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El Toro

03-16-2008 18:25:37

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Re: Log splitter revisited in reply to guido, 03-16-2008 07:17:30

I like this better. Hal

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guido

03-16-2008 17:03:30

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Re: Log splitter revisited in reply to guido, 03-16-2008 07:17:30

Hello Guys.
I took that wood home that day , chopper one did the trick!

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dlplost

03-16-2008 10:51:27

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Re: Log splitter revisited in reply to guido, 03-16-2008 07:17:30

some times you need 2 8n's

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thurlow

03-16-2008 08:58:58

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Re: Log splitter revisited in reply to guido, 03-16-2008 07:17:30

This is mine..... .....with my little brother using it.

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D.B. in Mi.

03-16-2008 15:49:18

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Re: Log splitter revisited in reply to thurlow, 03-16-2008 08:58:58

Guido, yours looks like too much work.

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