Thread: Biggest Round on Splitter (Pictures)

This was not the biggest out of this last tree but it was big - the biggest was 36 inches wide - we all had our hands on it and forgot to take pictures -

It has been a while when I said I was going to make a pair of those tongs using angle iron. Yesterday I found the time and here is a picture of the results. I used the photo of motoman3B and give him credit for his idea.

The log in the photo is not one of the huge ones but it is just an example to show these tongs do work. I plan on using a shorter piece of chain than the one in the photo. There are 6-pivot points and if necessary others can easily be drilled. Those short pieces of angle iron do seem to dig into the wood well enough to prevent slipping. These are welded and just for security I added a bolt through them.

Thank you motoman3B for the idea and comments.

Nosmo

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Originally Posted by Agrarian

What splitter are you using that will process something that big!!?

How do you determine a chunk's weight? I'd like to do that with the rest of the big ones I'll be doing.

I clean up after the tree trimmers so all I get is the big ones the one's they cane put on the trailer they sell. My tractor will p/u a little over 800 lb so I have had to go home and get my fork lift to pick them up and put the on the truck most of my wood 2 or 3 pieces will make a rank. I like the big pieces I do 1 rank a day total from start to finished wrapped and ready for market. Later

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the "pusher" on the end of the ram is 10 inches tall.
it was too heavy for our little (but still fullsized) skid steer to pick up

Originally Posted by some zilch

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the "pusher" on the end of the ram is 10 inches tall.
it was too heavy for our little (but still fullsized) skid steer to pick up

What kind of skid steer?

Originally Posted by Iska3

Those are some serious chunks of wood. Never see anything like that around here. Years a go my dad cut them biggins all down when he was a kid. Got'a give all of you a lot of credit. Yall came up with some good ideas on how to handle them

I'm in NW MN and all my wood comes from very local sources. I get a few logs each season that are in the 48" diameter range and they are a challenge to process.

I have all my wood delivered log length so I have it pretty easy. I also get to use my supplier's 35 ton splitter which has a hydraulic lift arm so I can put some serious rounds on the splitter. I can fit a length of about 40" and I know the largest was far bigger around than it was long. So big that the supplier had to use his grapple arm on the log truck to lift it on the splitter and hold it while I ran the splitter controls.

Bringing this thread back from the grave.... Think this log is a new record for my splitter, its some wet cottonwood roughly 50" across range, the boom lifted this one up but the next log was a little bigger bent the upright portion of the arm pretty good... it was due for a rebuild anyways

Moto looks like your crane has a bit of a list to it.