Yet another homemade log splitter!

[greyhound]

I made this splitter to run off my Cat mini digger. I had a thor vertical splitter before hand, but found it a bit slow even with a 2 stage pump.
The digger splitter is a very basic design but pushes around 17+ ton. It only has a stroke of around 12 inch as most of the fires and stoves over here take a log of 6 to 10 inch. The ideal ring size is between 10 to 14 inch, anything over 20inch would need cut into 2 with the saw for ease of handling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71l9W_TBoVo

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I also made this handy grab for lifting and holding lengths for cutting. Thats my dad giving me a hand out while i was running in a new 372xp
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[Rookie1]

Hey greyhound pics of splitter didnt work. Pics of digger did though. Try again.

 

[greyhound]

they should work now, i think!

 

[matt9923]

looks really good. Those mini ex's have balls.
I'm having picture prob lems 2.
Don't lose an arm that's a big back plate.
Matt

 

[Straightgrain]

As far as a design is concerned; which is better? The wedge on the ram or the wedge on the anvil?
Ive only used a splitter with the wedge on the ram.

 

[matt9923]

As far as a design is concerned; which is better? The wedge on the ram or the wedge on the anvil?
Ive only used a splitter with the wedge on the ram.

Imo
you get more done with the ram being the pushplate. But if you do big stuff you will want a log lift.

At lis point i have a splitter with the ram on the wedge but we need it to tilt so we can split the 3-4' oak rounds. Id like a nice big timerwolf/ splitrite type splitter with lift but their to much money and i don't have an excuse mine works fine.

 

[computeruser]

As far as a design is concerned; which is better? The wedge on the ram or the wedge on the anvil?
Ive only used a splitter with the wedge on the ram.

Depends on preference and splitting technique. Wood that requires lots of re-splitting is probably easier on a horizontal wedge-on-ram splitter with a work table on the off side. Single pass splitting is easiest and most productive with a wedge-on-beam and a 4- or 6-way wedge.