Table for splitting

[CaseyForrest]

I didn't want something this size hanging off the splitter and didn't feel like pulling the welder out. So I raided the scrap lumber pile and put this together.

I'm pleased so far. I may build an addition to it so I can stack more rounds on it.

sent from a field

 

[sawjunky23]

You ever worry about wood falling off your table onto your splitters engine?

 

[CaseyForrest]

Actually, I found that with the table there is less chance, unless I'm not paying attention, of something hitting the engine.

Without the table, splits would fall off the engine side of the splitter and pile up. Let the pile get to high and they start spilling off onto the engine.

With the table, I can take the split on my side and if its to big set it on the table. The split on the engine side will roll onto the table and come to rest where I then grab it and move it back onto the splitter.

Production has increased tremendously as well. Splits that are ready to be stacked get tossed with my left hand, right hand never leaves the splitter valve and by the time the wedge is in position to be extended Ive tossed the finished split and have another in the splitter.

 

[CaseyForrest]

The only time I have to bend over to pick up wood is to load the table.

 

[tomtrees58]

 

[CaseyForrest]

I could paint it with gold leaf to bring the cost of the pressure treated wood and screws closer to the cost of a TW.

 

[robson1015]

Here's mine- attaches with two bolts.

 

[Streblerm]

I would like to come raid your scrap pile.

 

[PA Dan]

Here's mine- attaches with two bolts.

I need one of them for my homemade splitter!

 

[olympyk_999]

Here's mine- attaches with two bolts.

heres mine...single 1" pin holds it on and it flips up and held up and down with a spring loaded pin...i thought about making it bolt on or slid into a receiver but this is easier...no wrestling with it as it weighs around 150lbs

 

[Sandhill Crane]

Used this table for years before getting a SuperSplit. The 'stroke reducing collars' help as well. TSC carries them.

 

[sawjunky23]

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That is an impressive splitter and a cute little saw!

 

[Sandhill Crane]

Olympyk99 has a nice set up. The log lift/staging table and the smooth out feed table of a SuperSplit to slide resplits back. If Casey Forrest nailed a temporary flat top on his table I think he would find it a plus. Either way, as Casey said, the table is a tremendous aid for resplitting, and who doesn't do that, a lot! Well maybe not TomTrees58 using a six-way wedge. My log lift for thirty years use to be a pair of ice tongues before getting a splitter with a log lift, but now resplitting is much less efficient on that machine. And, I found all but a few customers like smaller splits.

 

[kodiak]

When I got my splitter a few years back I made a table nearly identical to what Casey and Streblerm have. The thought was I would make something more permanent later on... I'm still using that same table and now have no plans to do anything else. Note that all of my splitting is done right at the stacks so I don't need to worry much about portability.

If I do it right, I back my trailer up near the table, drop the ramp of the trailer right on the edge of the table and roll the rounds from the trailer to the table. No lifting!!

 

[CaseyForrest]

I left the top open so it wouldn't collect debris.

sent from a field

 

[hardpan]

Coincidentally Casey I built one almost identical to yours and also from scrap I couldn't see tossing in the trash. Same ultra strengthening angle braces and 2x4 top frame. It is such an improvement and to think I have been using my splitter almost 20 years without a table. I think I may go ahead and build a steel hang-on-the-side version. My back isn't getting any younger. Hydraulic lift would just be too much spoiling at one time. LOL

 

[Sandhill Crane]

Side note: I have a TW-6. Love the lift, it is why I bought it, for big stuff I get dropped off by a tree service. Resplits are a pain with a four way because the beam/wedge design. There are two wings welded to the side of the beam below the wedge. The out feed table sides under these wings. There is also a bracket mounted on the side of the beam opposite the log lift. Pulling a lower split from a four way wedge hooks on all of these, especially opposite the lift. So although the log lift acts as a table, resplitting is easier with Casey's set up. Tom Trees may not need to resplit using a six way. Wish I had bought the TW-7 in hindsight. At the time I thought it would make too much splitter trash. I don't think they make the 7 anymore.

 

[olympyk_999]

Side note: I have a TW-6. Love the lift, it is why I bought it, for big stuff I get dropped off by a tree service. Resplits are a pain with a four way because the beam/wedge design. There are two wings welded to the side of the beam below the wedge. The out feed table sides under these wings. There is also a bracket mounted on the side of the beam opposite the log lift. Pulling a lower split from a four way wedge hooks on all of these, especially opposite the lift. So although the log lift acts as a table, resplitting is easier with Casey's set up. Tom Trees may not need to resplit using a six way. Wish I had bought the TW-7 in hindsight. At the time I thought it would make too much splitter trash. I don't think they make the 7 anymore.

i basically turned mine into a TW7...just the top is angled instead of the bottom on the box wedge, (8) 1" bolts to swap wedges...
i love the box wedge as near all the splits are the same size, which cant be said about a regular 4 way or 6 way