My newly finished splitter

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I got some helpful information for my splitter build so I thought I’d share some pictures of how it ended up.
It’s powered by an electric start Honda GX390 with a 22gpm pump. The cylinder is a 5x30 with a 3.5” ram. The cycle time is 12.5 -13.5 seconds depending on oil temperature.
 

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Looks like very nice attention to detail.
Use it a couple weeks and you will find with large rounds that the top two splits will fall on the ground, one to each side. Or they will end up on the out feed table behind the wedge. That is how the Delta wedges work. Or rather, they work you. It's a poor design, copied over and over.
When you get tired of walking around your new splitter chasing splits and lifting them off the ground, weld an extension on the four way and make it a shelf extending rearwards of the main wedge, like the top of a box wedge. The difference from a box wedge being your single wedge sticks up above the self, creating two pieces on top. They should sit there, within reach with a pulp hook. Pull one to the log lift and one to the beam to re-split. Rather than quartering big splits, run the wing low, then raise if those lower two splits need to be pulled back to re-split, while the two large splits sit on top waiting for their turn. If the lower splits are a good size, push them through with the next cycle.
Below: Timberwolf's TW-6 with a terrible wedge design. Fat main wedge and Delta four-way.
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Modified wedge. Extension could have been wider due to fat wedge design pushing splits sideways a lot.
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Standing between the hydraulic tank and log lift, the lower split can be easily pulled back with pulp hook by raising four-way to untrap it. Then re-split, leaving the top two pieces nest on top of four-way. Next lower four-way, pull near piece to log lift, and far pieces beam.
IMG_1518.jpgIf your just making big boiler wood then a delta wing is fine.
 
I like a tall wedge. 36" stroke splitter splitting 32" long rounds. Hydraulic adjustable 4 way wedge drops right down to split two way. Nice wide table. Narrow chute to dump onto a conveyor to pile splits.
 

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That’s a nice machine!
Mine is a beast, your's is a beauty. I very seldom paint the stuff I build. I put a bunch of my equipment in a Memorial show so I gave everything a quick blast of orange paint just so it would look a little better. My Grandson on my Steiner set up at the same show a year later.
 

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Here’s a short video of my brother running it right after we finished it
 

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