Trackhoe mtd. splitter

Took the Kubota KX41-3 trackhoe up to the sugar house to test the vertical 3pt hitch splitter that I built a tool tach for to mount it horizontally on the boom for a couple hrs. today. The tool tach locks over the H beam of the splitter on the hoe side and slides into the top link bracket of the splitter to pin there and then I drilled a 5/8" bolt hole to fasten the tool tach to the splitter on the right side of the tach.
Turned out to be a very solid hookup easy to detach from the hoe.
Splitting cyl moves a bit slow, but knowone has to manhandle unsplit blocks bent over or on their knees. We split 30+-" wood. I just swing the splitter over a block and grab it, swing around where the guys are stacking and and split the blocks. I just set in the seat, and operate the hoe. the other guys pick up and stack the wood that doesn't need splitting, and the ones that I have split with the hoe.
I left the 3pt crossbar on the splitter. It works well to hook out blocks from the pile. the splitter can be pivoted 180* on the boom end, and the booms independant swing from the house, allows me to align the splitter with blocks.
Just need to get used to using my left foot to operate the splitting cyl. and the right foot to swing the boom on the house. No problems with the hand controls. This hoe is just powerful extensions of my arms. Everyone is happy with the way it works. The shed needs to be full to the rafters for the spring syrup season. A neighbor adjacent to the sugar bush wants a old hedgrow cut down about a half mile long this fall so we should have enough wood without cutting in the sugar bush.
Loren, the Acg.

Looks great Bro,,, saves a Lot of lifting right there
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A guy Do your buckets use the same quick attach.. I have a kx 121=3 with Kubota quick attach buckets. I bought a set of plates and used them to mount my hydraulic post hold digger. Twice as fast a mounted on the loader of the tractor and lot easier to put the hole where man wants it. I may try your splitter ideal. My next project was to be a hydraulic driven chain saw for the boom of the excavator/

Loren ,
As always it looks good .... if your hedgerow is anything like hedgerow around here { Ia.} you want to split it GREEN ... if it gets dry before split ... it's like working with cement ... real hard to split ...
It gives off a lot of heat ....

You take care of your self ..... mark

Looks like it should work good Loren. You will have this wood cutting set up so its not even work soon.
I supose your next project will be an automatic stacker in the shed thingy.

JM, my buckets and Lowe auger are just pinned to the boom, no quick tach. Wish I had one, BUT!!!
The buckets and other attachments are small enough to wrangle them around to align the pins.
I had to mount the splitter so that it could easily be converted back to 3pt. configuration.
I have some further plans for the tool tach also.
Loren

Mark, The hedge row is an old line fence. Large oak, ash, cherry and maple. Knarley as heck, and probably embedded with lots of old fence wire. We've taken out many a mile of hedge rows on this farm over the years.
Loren

Nice bit of farmer engineering. Now your next project should be a platform you can split on and then pick up so the guys stacking don't have to bend over at all!

I could buy a lot of propane for heat for the cost of an excavator ?

That thought crossed my mind yesterday when I was splitting. My wheels are turning.
Loren

I thought the same thing. But I'm sure there's allot of other things he could use that excavator for also.
I know I sure would like one, if I could justify the cost.

The excavator payed for itself when I was a contractor. I am retired due to health issues and it is my HD robotic arms for many tasks around here.
If we were to use propane to make maple syrup, the evaporators would consume far more LP than a large corn drier.

After having one with quick attach I will never go back.. Have three buckets , a post hole digger and tree shear for this one. We change attachments pretty often.