I could be wrong (or it could be an optical illusion), but that cylinder looks a little small for 59 tons. When you run the numbers it looks like you'd need at least a 7" cylinder at 3000 PSI to achieve that kind of force. That cylinder doesn't look that big to me. Still a serious splitter though.
I'd like to see someone email him and ask how he arrived at that tonnage. Misrepresenting something like that should be illegal.
Steve NW WI,
Do you have that 7" cylinder on a log splitter? If so, got a pic? I'd like to see that. I put a 5" Prince on my home build and thought that was a pretty serious cylinder, but last night I got looking at some 6" and even an 8" cylinder for sale online. The immediate problem I see with building something that big at home is the mount for the cylinder. It's fairly simple with clevis style cylinders to use a hole saw to drill the pin block, but it looks like 6" and bigger it's a different style mount that requires two pin blocks (one on each side) on the pusher and in the rear, and that might get tricky to keep everything lined up and drilled straight for a garage project. What I did with mine was set the cylinder in place with the pin block already welded onto the pusher, leveled the cylinder to locate the clevis up and down, locked everything down with clamps, then ran the hole saw right through the clevis using the clevis as a guide for the drill. Looking at the mounts on bigger cylinders, I'd have to think about how to approach fabricating the front and rear blocks for the pins. More than likely I'd end up sending the pin blocks out to be professionally drilled and machined. Hard to believe the paint's barely dry on my "project" and I'm already trying to figure out how to upgrade.
If you guys will go back and read this thread, you will see that the 59 ton comment (with a smiley), was posted by someone
other than the person that started the thread. I thought it was a joke when I read it the first time. I still think it's a joke.
No...... its in the actual CL ad.
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