Has any one heard of a way to increase the speed of the hydraulic retraction and extension when it's not under pressure and then slow down to normal when actually splitting a log? Possibly using a flow divider? Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. I run the log splitter with my JD2320 and the GPM is low.
Homemade log splitter is very slow due to limited GPM from tractor.
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No, flow is directly proportinal to how fast the pump is spinning on a fixed displacment pump. To speed anything up you need more flow,(spin pump faster, or a bigger pump) or a smaller cylinder. Not much you're going to do with the tractor hydraulics thats not going to cost you big time. Get a pto pump set up. Much faster. And dies t rely on the tractor hydraulic system.
A quick look up on the specs of that JD 2320 says it has 5.6 GPM total on the pump and 3.4 GPM on the outlet and 2.2 GPM for the steering. The only way your going to get any speed out of that set up is to add a PTO pump and add a tank for oil. Probably going to be cheaper to just have a stand alone splitter with a engine. You could take a look a regenerative hyd circuits. Threw some valving you could gain some speed but it won't be cheap and with only 3.4 GPM to work with it probably won't be worth the cost.
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