4seasons
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Free engine and beam, steal on the cylinder and doing you own welding, you can come out cheaper. But if you have to buy those, $400 engine, $250 cylinder, $100 beam (this # may be off a bit, haven't priced steel) that takes the $600 up to $1300 then add up the cost of welding. (even if you have a buddy doing it for you, still time and gas to haul it over and explain what goes were and haul it home again) Then you have a lot of engineering and building time involved as well. So can you build a better splitter for $1500 than you can buy for the same price? Maybe, if you know what you want and have the time and knowledge to put it together. But for the amount of splitting your talking about, the $1000 Huskee/ SpeeCo will do all you need for less money than you can build one.
I built my own.
I dont have to much into it, the engine was free, cylinder 6" er was $50, beam was free, valve was about $100, pump was around $150, there is about $200 into the hydraulic hoses and fittings (that #### aint cheap) wedge was about $30 with a 4-way slip on for $100. Then the wire and gas for the welder.
So I have right around $600 in mine. And that isn't including the hours I spent building it, and the hours I spent chasing parts. Oh yea, and the torch gas to cut because something wasnt right.
So yea $1000 for a already built splitter aint bad. If I had to do it all over again, thats what I would do.
Free engine and beam, steal on the cylinder and doing you own welding, you can come out cheaper. But if you have to buy those, $400 engine, $250 cylinder, $100 beam (this # may be off a bit, haven't priced steel) that takes the $600 up to $1300 then add up the cost of welding. (even if you have a buddy doing it for you, still time and gas to haul it over and explain what goes were and haul it home again) Then you have a lot of engineering and building time involved as well. So can you build a better splitter for $1500 than you can buy for the same price? Maybe, if you know what you want and have the time and knowledge to put it together. But for the amount of splitting your talking about, the $1000 Huskee/ SpeeCo will do all you need for less money than you can build one.