Any of you guy's have or made a set? Most of the trees on my property are not that big, it was timbered just before us, but now & then I have a need to set a bigger round on the splitter. I cut all my wood at 26" so it needs to be pretty big. (I want to grab it in the cut dimension) I mainly was wondering if there was a magic ratio i.e.; length beyond each side of the pivot point. My splitter (funky old homemade) does go vertical, but it's a heavy pita to lift and I have tractors and such for lifting the occasional bigun'. Sorry Savage, I hate splitting vertical. My splitter is a comfy 40" or so working height in the horiz. position.
All the ideas here about horiz vs vert splitting is kind of amusing... we're all talking about the same thing. Having the "work height" of the round in as perfect a spot as we can so not much bending/lifting, if any, is needed to get the job done. We just do it in many different ways because of so many dif splitter designs, log lifts and work areas we're splitting in. Can be done in both modes. I use a set of 18" tongs from Northern Tool, but I lift them with a small crane. Have lifted 200 lb rounds with them no problem. Gonna need a strong back to do that all day... I had to pointy up the ends a bit but I think they'd stick into a larger round pretty well.
Check out campinspecter 's log dog thread. http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/threads/log-dogs.1555/.
I have a set made by Dixie Ind. and they are sweet. I could measure for you if I remember.... But my memory sucks. I think a quick sketch could on some graph paper would serve you well. Good old wannabe engineering.
That was a friendly jab at Sav. On the "other" forum, I remember that he was constantly being both teased & praised about his milk crate in all his photo's. All in good fun
Thanks, I wonder if that's a soft wood thing being's it west coast. I seen log dog's around here, but they look more like an "L" with and eye on one end. It also gets hammered in.
These pictures really have nothing to do with the thread. But! These are a considered to be a baby set of loading Tongs but they still weigh 70 lbs! By the time they I arrived on the logging scene, cable operated grapples had arrived. But my older brothers have packed these style of Tongs and often much larger, so if the leverman who let out just the right amount of cable 7/8 or 1 inch diameter smoothly, you would have not a bad day but on days when he was hung over it was not much fun. Once I got them up on my shoulders, I was not quite sure how to get them off! The log dogs would work good in hard woods. I have seen the pictures of your setup on another thread and they would be much harder to get out. Unless the tongs are losing or dropping the rounds, what you have looks to work ok.
Westech rigging supply has one model of the log dogs ( rafting dogs)- I can 't remember the other thread that some one said couldn't find so please pass info on. Thanks
These are several short videos of the log dog lifting rounds onto the splitter table.You've already seen the first one but not the next 4. http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/threads/log-dogs.1555/page-2#post-44609 #37 Allan
