Decent load this morning.

Here we go Eric. Pretty straight forward I had the side plates bent a few inches back from the front, welded them together and then put on a piece of tool steel for the front cutting edge. The wings are made from old snow plow cutting edge with the knife just flame cut and ground.

 

I must have missed this post the other day, really nice load you got out of there, Sam the man
I wish I could haul that much wood at one time

 

I've contemplated this myself Eric. My other splitter is the same type that you have and I would really like to have the 4-way on it. I'd like to rebuild my pusher wedge into some sort of changeable style possibly using a receiver tube or similar method. Then I'd build a single, 4-way,maybe a 6-way, and a tire bead breaker...eventually!

 

Makes sense to me and I've thought about that too but for my purposes I like the wedge moving. Eventually this splitter will be remade into a table style vertical model and that's not conducive to a stationary wedge.

 

have you checked out the four way they make for the husky splitter, might work on yours

SpeeCo Slip-On 4-Way Wedge for Huskee® 22-28 Ton Log Splitters

• 6 in. W x 9-1/2 in. L x 7 in. H
• For 22, 25, 27 & 28 Ton Log Splitters with 7 in. wedge

 

So , why is it you want to go to work tonight?

 

So I was chunking up the logs from this load Saturday morning when I ran into a huge AH HA moment. I move them from the pile to the sawbuck with the skid loader of course but on the way to the sawbuck I took a corner too sharp and one slid off dropping bark all over the driveway. Wait a minute; the bark falls off if I drop it...From then on I picked up each log and purposely dropped it once or twice from as high as I could and right where I wanted all the bark and crap. Nearly all of it fell off along with a good deal of the punky sapwood! Obviously not a good solution for everyone but I felt kind of dumb that I hadn't thought of it before, it's just too easy.

 

Sounds like a plan man, many things are discovered accidentally.
I find a lot of bark falls off and gets discarded during splitting

 

That it does but then I get an accumulation around the splitter, especially with this stuff that's been down for a few years. This way I can mostly contain it to one area. Of course there'll always be the splitter mess but hopefully this helps keep it manageable.

 

if I had something to pick up logs and drop them with I would be trying it, I have been known to throw splits against other splits to knock off the bark too

 

It'd be a beautiful thing to be able to CSS on a cement slab that could get swept/shoveled clean or scraped with the loader. How do you handle the mess? I found myself raking the gravel and picking up the piles with a silage fork Saturday and that was not much fun.