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Your flywheels will be plenty heavy, BUT, you won't get full advantage of that weight. You need a thicker flywheel that is relieved on the sides so that the MAJORITY of the weight is toward the OD. Also 1 inch wide flywheel isn't going to give much surface for belts to run.

That 13 hp is way overkill for these type splitters. My homebuilt flywheel splitter did a great job using a 3hp, 38 yr.old engine off an old Ariens tiller I had. (see "Anybody try to build a Super Splitter " thread for pics of it with that 3 hp engine ) Since that 3 hp only had a 1 quart fuel...

That takes my pinion gear speed from 5,400 rpm to 10,800 rpm at full 3,600 rpm engine speed. How do you figure your pinion RPM to be so high.? A 3.7" clutch pulley, 18"diameter flywheel & engine speed of 3600 RPM would give you a pinion speed of 740 RPM, which is still WAY to high. I...

Not sure what the HP of my motor is BigMoose. It's a 305cc Briggs 13.50 ft lbs. torque. With a sharp ,properly tensioned blade, cutting 12 ft long 20 -24 inch diameter Red Oak logs I can make a cut in less than a minute. Don't know if that's slow, average, or over feeding, but as long as the...

Let me try this again!!! I've owned a 228 since May, 2007 and have been well pleased with it. I built a 6ft. track extension for it about a month after I got it. With 18 ft. of track, max length of log you can saw is 15 ft, 4 inches. Am currently making a 20 ft, one pc. track , with...

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Your clutch is on backwards!! No way it can slip.

What length & diameter are you splitting that weighs nearly 1000 lbs? Like to see a pic of that. Too much logging going on around here for trees to get that big. Biggest I've split was a 26" diameter red oak, cut to 18" long. That weighed 315 lbs, & was loaded onto the splitter with my...

Sounds like your friend hasn't learned to read the wood well enough to know how to split big or nasty pieces with a kinetic splitter yet. I only split about 6 to 8 cords per year for me & a couple of friends, but we can get it done VERY FAST, & then we have more time to hunt, fish, saw lumber...

Rack & Pinion Steel So I'm guessing rack and pinion are not A36 steel. You are correct CUCV. The rack & pinion are heat treated alloys, while A36 is nothing more than mild, low carbon hot rolled steel. I used A36 disks cut from 2" thick plate to machine the flywheels for my homebuilt...

Figure at middle of belt for pulley diameter, same as figuring pitch diameter for gears. SS uses 2 standard V belts to fit the clutch pulley . Alignment is so good that V grooves not needed for flywheels to keep belts on. Can't really see the clutch pulley on the DR video, but looks to have 1...

SpeedPro Clutch Dozerman, if you can't run your SpeedPro below 2650 rpm because the clutch won't engage, the springs in the clutch are too strong for a splitter application. You should have a clutch that engages at 1500- 1700 rpms. You can have a clutch specially made with pulley diameter you...

Engagement Mechanism philwillmt, Look at the "Under the Hood" video again,very colsely. Even though the "roller bracket" goes past vertical, the bolt holes for the roller & pivot rod are not on the same centerline. The roller is offset slightly left of the pivot point, and is actually lined up...

philwillmt You're right, the pitch diameter of the pinion gear is outside diameter minus approximately the full height of 1 tooth. . A 2 inch diameter shaft with teeth cut 3/8 deep would give you a 1.625 pinion pitch diameter . Multiply pinion pitch diameter by pi (3.1416) to determine...

NA, That's exactly what I posted on page 20 of this thread concerning the gear breakage. Most likely it is improperly tempered gears, but as I discovered on my homebuilt splitter. full engagement of the teeth is critical. When I built the engagement cam on mine, I made the roller too small &...

MNGuns, I thought about a trailer jack to begin with, too. The trailer jack with wheels is great for moving around on concrete or asphalt, but I have no intention of pulling or pushing mine around by hand at any time. Getting too old for that! My splitting area is nearly 200 yards away from my...