Home-made Log splitter

[bob gresko]

Does Anyone know where to get plans to make a home-made hydrolic firewood splitter?

 

[Menchhofer]

www.northerntool.com

 

[msb1766]

www.cadplans.com

 

[bwalker]

I looked into building one, but after computing all the costs for materials, engine, pump, cylinder, etc It was almost the same price as buying one from Northern tool.

 

[John in MA]

Kinda depends on where you get your parts. Surplus engine, ram, and scrap steel help a lot.

 

[tony marks]

my gosh ,im gonna need somethin like that. i got stuff out there to be split ,that i just barely can role. i am not looking forward to splitting it. any suggestions ,be very welcome. i guess a rented splitter may be in the future. but who knows . mabe that ole grenade will split
it fine. but i dont feel like trying it today.

 

[Tim Gardner]

When I was a kid my father had a pretty cool splitter setup. His splitter was just an I-beam, hydraulic cylinder and a wedge. No engine or controls. We had a stick boom like the type the power company uses to set poles with. The long hydraulic hoses on the splitter had quick connects that plugged into the end of the boom and the operator could lift large blocks of wood into place with the cable and tongs and cycle the cylinder from his seat. Later on we used a farm tractor to power the splitter. We made a three point hitch on the end of the I-beam so we could move the splitter around.

 

[Stumper]

The most impressive homemade splitter I've ever seen resides a few miles from my house-It has a mechanism for lifting big rounds into place, splits them into 28 pieces in one pass and runs the split wood up a conveyer to drop on a pile or into a truck. Is that what you had in mind?

 

[tony marks]

yea,im gonna start building it this morning . after my next cup o coffee.

im thinking a guilotine type deal,mite work. if i could find something to make the blade from,i can handle the rest.
nah probably not.

 

[wmthrower]

You'll have to post some pics if you decide to give it a go. I would like to see a guillotine splitter!

 

[geofore]

can just barely split

Tony, realy big? We used to cut into the end of the log with a chainsaw, pour in about 3/4 cup black powder, insert fuse, cover with clay or play dough light it and run for cover. It splits logs in half or throws them in the air or both but it does split them. For four foot in diameter and up. Your local police may pay you a visit if loud noise upsets your neighbors.

The log spliters, to get around the oil tank problem, always in the way, Square steel tube welded to the under side of the "I" beam works well for an oil tank and stiffens the beam so it can handle the really big pieces without bending the beam.

 

[Dennis]

I used to sell the "White" brand of log splitters for about 2500 for a 22 ton splitter. Then, the government, in their infinite wisdom, deemed them unsafe and they didn't pass CSA standards to be sold in Canada....So I thought I would build them and sell them...well...as Ben said...the cost and time of building them is definitely not worth it. I figure we had over 4k into the darn machine....then sold it for 3....good economics.