Home made log splitter

Just finished it up at work yesterday and towed it home last night. Got about 15-20 minutes run time on it in the dark under headlights of the truck with my 4yo son.

Specs are:

W8x24 wide flange beam, set up to do vertical and horizontal work with a work table for horizontal. 1.25" plate foot.

6x6x.125 axle/hydraulic reservoir comes out to about 7.5 gallons of fluid. 4.80x12 wheel/tire

Hand built wedge with 1/2" base plate and flare plates, 3/4" main wedge

3x3 .125 tongue with 2"ball coupler. 2000lb bulldog top wind pivoting jack


4x24 cylinder mated to a 13gpm 2 stage pump. Math calculates 18.855 true tons at 3000psi not some made up number like the ones they sell at lowes or tsc. 1" supply line, 3/4" pressure line from pump to valve and 1/2" work ports and hoses/lines. Should come out to a true unloaded cycle time of about 11.2 seconds 24" out and back.

Predator 212cc engine

All parts drawn/programmed/cut/fabricated/welded by me

-scott














-scott

 

That thing looks great. Good job. Now its time to dirty it up!!!

 

Nice work. Be sure and report back after breaking it in.

 

Nice work!
FYI, WeldrDave has (had) some tires you need...

 

Very nice craftsmanship. Cool shop as well.

 

Very well done! It's always satisfying doing it by yourself. I will load pics of the one I built when I get a chance. Again, nice job!!!

 

I'd love to know how you made the wedge...specifically the butt end of it (between the blade and the ram)

 

Don't laugh...the shop I worked in for 30 years the guys heated up something in the rod oven every day...

 

That is NOT what I expected when I read homemade!

 

Maybe he lives in that nice shop...

 

Lol I usually expect something relatively well built, but cobbled together with spare steel. THAT is something you could easily pass off as store bought!

 

Very well built splitter scotts_4x

Impressive work.

 

Awesome job!

That splitter is well built, but minimalistic as well.

The only thing I'd say you might want are some texture welds on the foot so that the logs can't spit out the side if you've got a knotty piece.

 

Here she is... I think I built her 15 years ago. Been over 200 cords ran across the table. 28 gpm with 11 horse Honda. A little weathered from living outside. The paint is Imron, that stuff bites like iron. If ur wondering why the tables are so big because of the stuff we tend to split. The biggest piece we ran thru her had to be hit 52 times!!! We lift the big stuff up with a Kubota tractor and log tongs. As you can see the back of the wedge is very wide. We split mostly ash. When the ash hits the wide part of the wedge it pops right off. This way we can get by with running just half the stroke or less. I'm in the process of designing one for my skid steer. That takes the engine and hydraulic tank out of the picture. I really enjoyed building it as well as running it knowing I did it. I know scott_4x will as well.

 

I really like the fact u can split in either plane. That really makes it versatile!

 

The wedge is made of 1/2" and 3/4" plate. The base plate is 1/2" with the main wedge being a piece of sharpened 3/4". The spreader wings at the top are 1/2" plate bent in a 90 and welded on either side of the 3/4" wedge and then I just capped it so there wasn't an open cavity. Where it attaches to the ram theres a piece of pipe that fits the rod and is through bolted. I cut the pipe short enough so that the ram pushes on the wedge itself not on the bolt. The bolt will only see force on the retract stroke.

-scott