I have a few questions I think you guys can answer. I'm possibly looking at making a powersplit type splitter mounted on a steel plate on the back of a suburban. I split customers wood in one area and could drive home to split personal OWB wood. I split mostly maple.
1. I can pick up a 5&1/2" cylinder with 30"stroke and 3" rod for $75.00. Good deal? What size pump, engine, possible cycle times?
2. Is it possible to run a splitter using a car engine? I have an older Ford 300c.i. 6cyl mounted to 4speed manual. Burn too much gas to be worth it? Output to slow?
3. What I'm thinking is building a vertical splitter on the back of the suburban with a 4way wedge. I was thinking of mounting the cylinder a ways out from the beam so the back pieces of wood don't jam the beam when I center an 8-10" maple block. Large pieces 30"dia. and 24"-28" long (for OWB) I would split with the outer (of the 4) single blade. The cylinder would also be clamped to the beam toward the bottom. The wedge would also have slides attatched to the beam. I could brace the beam from the top 45deg to the base behind the splitter. Would having the cylinder and splitting that far out from the beam tend to flex the beam and rod?
4. I have a (homemade) horizontal splitter I want to re-fit for faster production as I'm getting more firewood customers. I'll pick your brains later about the re-fit. So the vertical splitter would not have to have super fast cycle times. Or would it be easier to just buy a vertical/horizontal splitter and mount it on the suburban? I was looking at the North Star 37ton in NH Northern, opinions on these? I could just use it as a single splitter then for big pieces. I like the idea of standing up-right and just turning a big piece as you split instead of having to re-pickup halves.
Thank, Bill Gordon Deerton,Mi.
1. I can pick up a 5&1/2" cylinder with 30"stroke and 3" rod for $75.00. Good deal? What size pump, engine, possible cycle times?
2. Is it possible to run a splitter using a car engine? I have an older Ford 300c.i. 6cyl mounted to 4speed manual. Burn too much gas to be worth it? Output to slow?
3. What I'm thinking is building a vertical splitter on the back of the suburban with a 4way wedge. I was thinking of mounting the cylinder a ways out from the beam so the back pieces of wood don't jam the beam when I center an 8-10" maple block. Large pieces 30"dia. and 24"-28" long (for OWB) I would split with the outer (of the 4) single blade. The cylinder would also be clamped to the beam toward the bottom. The wedge would also have slides attatched to the beam. I could brace the beam from the top 45deg to the base behind the splitter. Would having the cylinder and splitting that far out from the beam tend to flex the beam and rod?
4. I have a (homemade) horizontal splitter I want to re-fit for faster production as I'm getting more firewood customers. I'll pick your brains later about the re-fit. So the vertical splitter would not have to have super fast cycle times. Or would it be easier to just buy a vertical/horizontal splitter and mount it on the suburban? I was looking at the North Star 37ton in NH Northern, opinions on these? I could just use it as a single splitter then for big pieces. I like the idea of standing up-right and just turning a big piece as you split instead of having to re-pickup halves.
Thank, Bill Gordon Deerton,Mi.