Re: Another Log Splitter Question

Posted by jdemaris on October 18, 2004 at 18:27:44 from (209.23.28.7):

In Reply to: Another Log Splitter Question posted by WiCraig on October 18, 2004 at 15:27:42:

I don't have a Danauser, but I do have a three point splitter and have also worked on quite a few. There are some pretty good ones around in the $500 price range (new). Biggest complaint I've experienced with them is the tractor's hydraulics being too slow to run them adequately. I bought one a while back from an old guy that was running his off his Ferguson 30. He paid $600 new for the splitter with the 4" diameter cylinder (that puts it in the med. - heavy duty range). It ran too slow, so he then had to buy a PTO hydraulic pump and hydraulic reservoir kit for the splitter and it THEN worked fine. That's the way I bought it. The PTO pump and reservoir cost him an extra $500. I bought the whole works for $400. If I was going to spend over a $1000, I'd just go to Tractor Suppy Co. and buy their largest splitter, self powered with a 12 horse engine, for $1400.
One other complaint I've gotten is from using large tractors to run the splitters. Some of the big tractors are not very fuel-efficient running three-point splitters of the tractor's hydraulics.
But, everything has plusses an minuses. It's nice not having an extra engine to keep running, but it's kind of pain hooking the splitter up and taking it off (and finding a place to stand it up) if it's a vertical.
Make sure the splitter's control valve matches the tractor you are going to use it on (closed center or open center).

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