Posted by Adirondack case guy on October 17, 2015 at 07:08:13 from (74.69.160.79):
In Reply to: could use good advice posted by LOU from Wi. on October 16, 2015 at 20:03:42:
Lou, I read you posts with great interest about building your wood splitters also. I built my elevator from steel Kubota shipping crates, which are readily accesable to me. The elevator chain bed is 11'8" long, plus the length of the chutes on the bottom and top. I power it with the splitter hydraulics. I just Tee'd into the splitting cylinder hoses with quick couplers and added hoses feeding a hyd. motor off an old electric feed cart that I had salvaged. There is a oneway check valve in the splitting stroke circuit of the splitter cylinder so oil can't flow to the hyd motor on the elevator and run it backwards when splitting blocks. I just hold the the lever on the splitter to return and when the cylinder retracts comepletely the elevator runs. Just run blocks up elevator far enough for next peices. The elevator doesn't run continiously. The transport frame is also fabed from the shipping crates. The wheels are off an old garden tractor, and the lifting winch is a peice of pipe with a steering wheel off a garden tractor welded to it, with a lock paw to hold it at what ever heidth I want. The galvinized sheet steel is NOS covers for feed conveyors that were stashed away years back when we sold Jamesway barn equipment. If I was to build another one, Here is what I would do different. #1 wider bottom to acomidate 4-6" rubber paddles. #2 make the bed 2' longer. Only because the trailer sides are now 12" higher to hold more wood. I really don't have any issues that irritate me. As you know my splitter is 3pt mounted and easily manuverable in the woods. I operate it raised up on the tractor so there is NO bending over to operate it. Just have to bend down to pick up the blocks that I can lift. The gin pole and 12V winch lifts the heavy blocks onto the splitting bed. I mounted a hitch under the splitting bed to hook the elevator to when heading to the woods, so the whole rig goes as a single unit. I am also building another acessory for the system. I skid whole trees out to landings in the woods. Just cut the ends of limbs off at about 1.5" diamiter back in the woods. Once I start blocking, I cut the limbs off tops flush to the log. The limbs are a real pain to cut to length!!! Got to try to put my foot on them to hold them and then chase them around with the saw when they kick out. SOO I am building a chopsaw table that I can slide limbs onto and cut to length and they will fall into the elevator also. The table will easily attach to the splitter for transport, and then be rolled adjacent to the elevator and splitter for operation. Stay tuned for future pics. Here is a sneek preview. I built this table back in 1989 to work with my home built bandsaw mill. I'm adapting it to my current needs. Geese;; Just looked out window and a snow squall is going through. Loren
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