My Wood Spliter Fab pics.

[gink595]

Well I finally got to put the heat to steel today, the past week or so I've been dumpster diving and hitting the salvage and surplus places looking for valves and cylinders, it's been hit and miss to say the least. But I did manage to get some good buys on some stuff, I got 600+lbs. of steel for .11 Cents a pound and have a old axle that has been laying around. I got a great buy on the pump at Rural King for 75.00 16 gpm 2 stage Haldex, I have a 5 Hp briggs that came off a junk power washer I bought years ago the motor has less than a hour on it. But then a friend gave me a 11 hp Briggs for free, that was taking up garage space. I ended up just buying a 4x24 cylinder that has been the most expensive item to date. Yesterday I found (2) control valves and a 10" stroke cylinder for my adj. 4-way for 60.00, but the one ended up being seized and junk, so I have to take that back. I have a friend that works at a pipe place so I will get all the fittings and bungs from him for little to no cost. And I believe I will make the Hyd. hoses at work (thanks work) So in all I have around 390.00 in it and I should not have to spend anymore, well that is what I think now... I drew the splitter up on Acad earlier in the week and I'm still trying to decide on how to do the 4-way wedge I'm not final on that yet, but by tomorrow evening it should be done. I started yesterday evening and worked this evening on it for a couple hours, so I took some pics to show you all my progress from start to finish

If you have any suggestion let me know

 

[country boy]

Wheres the pics ? :monkey:

 

[gink595]

F-ing computers, I guess it didn't like my offensive title. We'll try this again...

 

[gink595]

I have no idea... screw it, I'll try tomorrow:deadhorse:

 

[gink595]

Hmmmm, maybe I can only post 3 pics on one post????

 

[gink595]

Bingo, well heres some more:biggrinbounce2:

 

[gink595]

 

[Four Paws]

I like building things stout...but that thing is a little overboard. :jawdrop: At least you got the steel at a scrap yard at a fair price.

Nice welds...nice progress! AutoCAD makes getting your thoughts down on paper EASY!

 

[2FatGuys]

I've got one designed in AutoCAD / Sketchup that I have been pondering over for a year or more. I started gathering materials from the scrap yard last month and plan to start cutting and welding in the fall. It's going to be a fun job seeing the design come to fruition.

 

[Chuck Diesel]

Keep up the good work.

 

[ericjeeper]

Excellent welds..

In your drawing I would position the beam over the axle as to not have it so tongue heavy.. Makes em a real booger to move around by hand.

 

[gink595]

In your drawing I would position the beam over the axle as to not have it so tongue heavy.. Makes em a real booger to move around by hand.

I split everything at home, If I go cut, I load everything with a Bobcat and haul home. At first I wasn't even going to put a axle on it but I thought I might regret that at some point, I'm still going to weld Fork pockets on it to pick up and move in stead of pulling it. I hate some of the splitters where you are having to work around the tires all the time and having to stand in weird positions to work around it, I wanted it out of my way. That is my reasoning behind putting it all the way in the back, plus it should be easier to back up with a longer wheelbase

Does anyone know if I can get away with putting the motor/pump higher than my resivior tank? Will the pump pull the hyd. fluid to it or is more of a gravity feed? I'm wanting to mount my motor and pump on top of that back beam.

 

[Rookie1]

I wouldnt, Id like to have it lower so the pump stays full all the time.

 

[Mike Van]

Gink, your shop is too neat & clean , other than that it looks great! Just me, I'd keep the tank above the pump, never have to worry about dry start-up if it sits for awhile without being used.

 

[gink595]

Gink, your shop is too neat & clean , other than that it looks great! Just me, I'd keep the tank above the pump, never have to worry about dry start-up if it sits for awhile without being used.

Thats funny, I just cleaned it up and took a load of crap out of there, I hate working in a mess, so when I start something new everything finds it's home and afterwards it's a complete war zone again until I start something new, it's a viocious cycle I tell ya

 

[Jkebxjunke]

I would put the pump below the tank to keep oil supplied to the pump at all times.. as others have mentioned to eliminate dry start ups. ALSO I would put a shut-off on the suction port on the tank so if you had to do any work on the pump you would not have to drain the oil out... just a thought.

 

[gink595]

I would put the pump below the tank to keep oil supplied to the pump at all times.. as others have mentioned to eliminate dry start ups. ALSO I would put a shut-off on the suction port on the tank so if you had to do any work on the pump you would not have to drain the oil out... just a thought.

nikocker's TW pics had his pump well above the tank, I noticed so did some of the Huskies at TSC. I understand and agree with the dry startups but is this a real problem?? How does my Bobcat operate with the pump being above the tank is there a check valve I could use if this is a problem??

 

[walexa07]

Put the pump where you want it........just make sure you have the recommended size suction hose to minimize restriction. Several of the commercial units have the pump above the tank.

Waylan

 

[Rocosil]

Gink,
I love those welds. Beautiful work. I'd never dare to show closeups like that of mine.

Bob

 

[mtfallsmikey]

don't worry about the pics...nice work, Gink!