Rocosil
ArboristSite Member
Note: I posted this originally by mistake in the Chainsaw Forum. So, this is not double bragging, just a feeble attempt to correct a stupid error. :blush:
Having thoroughly enjoyed the splitter picture thread here, I decided to do something about my little, 25 year-old Northern Tool, 16 ton, 5hp, 11gpm, strictly for home-use, splitter, and in the process get rid of a 6 ft snowplow blade (left over from when my truck went up in flames) that had for years been irritating my wife by sitting on her lawn.
This splitter came 22" high, so job #1 was to raise the rail 9" to bring it up to the height of my dragging knuckles with a couple of 9" long pieces of 4" angle iron scavenged from the plow and welded lip to lip in an approximate Z shape. With the working height now raised, a log lift became all the more desirable. This I made up from the swivel frame (my snow plow terminology is sadly deficient) of the plow, split down the middle and re-welded to change its shape from A to H, and a 16" portion of the plow blade. Most of another 16" section of the blade was welded to the opposite side of the rail as a log retainer. The remainder of the blade was used to make up two trays to catch the split wood. Most of the bits and pieces that hold everything together also came off the plow, except for the cover of log lift arm, which was sheet metal from a washing machine and the handle on the lift valve and the fences at the end of the trays, which were rods that came out of the innards of the same washing machine. I relocated the extended support leg of the splitter from its original position at the end of the rail to the corner of one of the trays, thinking that the rather heavy lift with a log on it might tip over the whole splitter. This turned out not to be the case, but it does make the whole contraption a bit steadier.
The bought pieces were the lift valve (yard sale), hoses, hydraulic fittings, a 2" x 10" cylinder, and the scissor jack, which came from the trunk of an Oldsmobile in a junkyard. Total outlay about $180, including about thirty bucks in cut-off wheels and welding rods.
Here are the pix:
Bob
Having thoroughly enjoyed the splitter picture thread here, I decided to do something about my little, 25 year-old Northern Tool, 16 ton, 5hp, 11gpm, strictly for home-use, splitter, and in the process get rid of a 6 ft snowplow blade (left over from when my truck went up in flames) that had for years been irritating my wife by sitting on her lawn.
This splitter came 22" high, so job #1 was to raise the rail 9" to bring it up to the height of my dragging knuckles with a couple of 9" long pieces of 4" angle iron scavenged from the plow and welded lip to lip in an approximate Z shape. With the working height now raised, a log lift became all the more desirable. This I made up from the swivel frame (my snow plow terminology is sadly deficient) of the plow, split down the middle and re-welded to change its shape from A to H, and a 16" portion of the plow blade. Most of another 16" section of the blade was welded to the opposite side of the rail as a log retainer. The remainder of the blade was used to make up two trays to catch the split wood. Most of the bits and pieces that hold everything together also came off the plow, except for the cover of log lift arm, which was sheet metal from a washing machine and the handle on the lift valve and the fences at the end of the trays, which were rods that came out of the innards of the same washing machine. I relocated the extended support leg of the splitter from its original position at the end of the rail to the corner of one of the trays, thinking that the rather heavy lift with a log on it might tip over the whole splitter. This turned out not to be the case, but it does make the whole contraption a bit steadier.
The bought pieces were the lift valve (yard sale), hoses, hydraulic fittings, a 2" x 10" cylinder, and the scissor jack, which came from the trunk of an Oldsmobile in a junkyard. Total outlay about $180, including about thirty bucks in cut-off wheels and welding rods.
Here are the pix:
Bob
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