TW-6 wedge design

[Sandhill Crane]

Works pretty good. Big stuff does not split completely. A sacrificial block on the push plate might help that. This was the largest wood I've split. Smaller would be quicker. Also throwing splits off to side to keep the driveway open. A lot of extra work in that till the snow is gone.

 

[Otahyoni]

Good to see your hard work pay off though...

On a separate note, I should add a log lift to my splitter. That looks really handy.

 

[Sandhill Crane]

A few more pictures, a sequence of one round, from yesterday. If building your own splitter consider a taller, narrower wedge, and a wing that drops below beam level. There is a home built splitter on Youtube where the log lift moves, slides, towards the wedge and catches large splits, then slides forward where the operator rolls them back on the beam. Don't know how he accomplishes that, but great idea for a fixed wedge design. Once halved, these large straight grained rounds might be split quicker by hand.

 

[Oliver1655]

Log lifts are real handy!

If you plan on adding one, make it longer so you can load several rounds on it at a time for a staging table when you are not needing it to lift the large ones. If you have a helper to keep it loaded, you will definitely see an improvement in production.