I have the echo PAS and that works around my property. Pole saw, brush cutter, cultivator, hedger heads all get occasional use and work good. Mostly used as a weed trimmer and excellent for that.
Just an update for everyone,. Had a chance to fart with the splitter yesterday and got the foreign material out. Well, it removed itself by freezing to the beam. As I had suspected it was wet bark. I still have to fix the beam but it split all day without any issues. Thanks again for the help.
I was more wanting a better idea of where you added material to prevent this in the future. I suppose a piece of angle welded the length of the splitting area would suffice.
It sounds as though the rolled edges can be heated and remolded (@cantoo )( possible pics of your repair?)
There is no exposed edges of sliver and with what I was able to remove at the time of the incident leads me to believe it is all wet bark, maybe why it compacted so much under the wedge.
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On this type of splitter there is nothing to unbolt as the beam sorta wraps around the wedge. I have noticed the beam/wedge gap growing over the past few years. I guess I pushed past the limits of the steel. I have looked into a replacement beam but pricey. A sawzall never occurred to me so...
Well it was already very wet as the wedge was squishing water out of the splinter. I won't use it again until the weekend so maybe it will dry out and come out. Thanks for the ideas though.
Hey All,
25 ton County Line splitter with the captive wedge. Splitting red oak yesterday and my last round jammed a sliver under my wedge. I disconnected the wedge from the ram but could not beat the wedge to the spot where the beam would release it. Any redneck engineering ideas out there? In...
I have a County Line splitter that is the same Speeco design as this Huskee. These style splitters switched to a plate foot a few years back, presumably due to the failure we have here. Just waiting for mine to go BOOM...:innocent:
• ALWAYS turn the fuel shut off valve on the engine to the “OFF” position before towing the log splitter. Failure to do so may result in flooding the engine and damaging engine oil.
This is in the LSP4001 YTL 40T owners manual no less than 3 times.