Splitter update

[WidowMaker]

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Originally Posted by kevin j
http://arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=59630&page=2

pics on post 25 & 28, splitter tilts back into bed. Looks like wipes out all the wood storage though, so I am not sure the advantage would be. Also, all splitting must be done vertically, which I don’t like. Too hard on my back. Could haul gear along the sides I guess.


That would be my (our) unit, I cut with 2 son-in-laws and 1 son-in-laws father.
The trailer is a splitter/tool hauler only not intended to be a wood hauler. Al though the spiltter can be remove by pulling one pin. When we go cutting there are 3, 1 ton pickups and a 18 ft trailer and a 5x10 trailer go along so there no shortage of wood hauling space...

The pieces for wood you see in the picture are some pieces of Cherry wood that I think may have a rifle stock hiding in them.

Spiltter could be used horizonally if one wanted to, however the size wood we cut would require a hydraulic lift to be able to use it that way.

WidowMaker

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Decided to add log lift and catch table. Not yet completed but you get the general idea. Updated pictures...Later






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Last edited by WidowMaker : 01-19-2008 at 11:15 AM.

 

[WidowMaker]

Ok, here are the pictures and a couple of my wood piles.
Log lift and catch table can be switched side to side by pulling a couple of pins. I will use quick disconnect fitting for easy removal if we wish to use it in the verticle position.



Wood piles are Apple about 10 cords, Cherry 4 cords, Lodge Pole Pine about 10 cords and Mix of Red Fir and Tamarck about 12 cords. Wood will be stacked and covered later this fall.
Woods are closed to wood cutting now. May or may not open up later this fall..

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[mga]

interesting concept....mounted right to that bed...eh?

i can see where that would work.

another question....how would you lower that front support?

 

[WidowMaker]

That support leg is just a trailer tongue jack that will be fixed to some 2" channel iron that will be shaped like this \_/ that the base of the splitter will simply sit down into. The stem of the support leg is a pipe in side a pipe and provide height adjustment, along with the tongue jack on the trailer...