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Tim Scott
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 24 ม.ค. 2012
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Huge Homemade Wood Splitter with Auto-Cycle in Action
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i built this splitter in my shop at home on weekends and nights. The tree I'm splitting is an old oak that was close to 100 years old. Part of the tree fell on the shed in the rear left of the splitter when we cut it. Some of these chunks of wood weight a few hundred pounds, all we can do to roll them around.thanks for watching and feel free to post any comments
Huge Homemade Wood Splitter with Auto-Cycle Valve and Dump Valve
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I made this splitter in my spare time in my shop at home. It took about 6 months on Saturdays and late nights to finally get it all welded up. The 8" x 8" I-beam, 6" cylinder, hydraulic reservoir, axle and wheels came from junkyards for only pennies on the dollar. The dump valve allows the fluid to by-pass the auto cycle valve to the reservoir, therefore keeping the temperature lower and the cy...
OVER KILL ON THE TANK AND CYLENDER. Get a Northeren Hydralics catalog and look what the scale says.
Good job 👏 👍 one of the best . How much money did it take to make this?
okay, how much to make me one just like ours? :) Very nice splitter and design.
Nice work!!!
Thank you
Thanks I’m sure you can do it if I can Good luck and post pics of your build
Very nice job!
Thank you
You did a great job building that i’m going to try to build one I like the way you done that. If the good Lord sees fit, maybe I can get one built too. God bless you my friend. Have a great day.
little late but still a nice spitter john
Sometimes better late than never Thanks
I love those large tires! Are you comfortable towing it at highway speeds? Is there any suspension?
Thanks Jerry I can tow it at highway limits but I usually play it a little safe and run a bit slower. There is no suspension
Mind me asking how much you had in building this? Very nice machine. Thinking about building one
Thank you No I don’t mind I had around $5000.00 in it and lots of time. But the Honda engine was close to half of the expense
Big question. Two littles one 1. What size hydraulic cylinder did you used for you log lift and wedge adjustment 2. How long is the steel beam and what was the size of the steel beam? I know these videos were done some time ago. I'm guessing that you just might answere my question.
The log lift cylinder is a 4”x24” The wedge cylinder is a 3”x12” The steel beam was originally 10’ My main cylinder is 6”x48” So cylinder length took up 8’ plus the area to weld on support for the cylinder was about another foot plus the push block I think I had about a 10” piece left over from the 10’
hi there just stopped in checking out other channels . yours looks like what i am in to . looking forward to more thanks john
Love it! I have a RuggedMade, but they don't provide a auto-return nor a dump valve on theirs. Could I perhaps get a design on how you did your hydraulics so I can add it to mine? Thanks, Dave. PS, if you will, just reply here and I will send you my email address.
Sorry for such a late reply I’ll be glad to help anyway I can
Heck yea nice splitter. And im also a Local NC boy
Thanks Jordan
A faster cycle time would be better
It might be but it would either take a larger pump or smaller cylinder It’s fast enough for an old guy like me
You could probably put a stop block so it would kick off sooner
Dude, you need some eye protection and steel-toed boots for that monster. It seems to handle just about anything.
A very fine piece of equipment indeed. How's about you make me one too? Although, my stove won't take anything over 19"
Thanks You can split short wood too😀
Very nice machine. About the only thing I could see it benefiting from is a larger push plate so that big blocks don't "bloom" when they get split.
That was a big hunka, hunga burning (type) wood.
VERY nice splitter, great job. Plan to steal some ideas, if you don't mind.
Thanks Just help yourself Good luck with your build
Excellence 👍! This is the cleanest looking home built splitter I've ever seed with mine 👀 eyes. It reminds me a lot of the Easton Made. Or just the wedge lift part of it. I just ordered a 5 inch Cylinder kit with 28 gallon pump. Also ordered a smaller cylinder to use as a return only to speed up the return. I'll not plumb the 5 inch bore return side , but rather use the smaller one and the return should be flying back home. Will need to put a breather in that port tho. To start with I'll run a simple plumb with auto return valve before tackling the full auto. But I do have a set of fancy mag wheels to go on it 😄. They're like 14 inches wide. That'll keep it from sinking in the mud. They came on a trailer I bought at a yard sale. When it rained that thing would hydroplane and try to pass me. But I figured they would be perfect for this splitter build. It'll be heavy. Those box store splitters just don't hold up to big heavy cants for years and years. Plus the fact of having to wrestle them onto a machine that is too small to begin with sux.
Thanks I’d like to see yours operating
hi there watched this splitter and impressed every time well done john
Great job Tim, the splitter looks great. The adjustable wedge looks well made, I have seen videos where the wings on either side of the wedge are set behind the vertical wedge so it doesn't have to split both ways at the same time but it looks pretty grunty and prob works just fine. Not knocking your splitter in any way! I am trying to pick up things here and there for a processor, I have a 40hp tractor engine as a starter. Cheers
Thanks DD the video you watched is the first one I made, later I have a couple of videos showing it splitting some large chunks with the wedge modified. at first the wedges were even on the front edge, after a couple of times of use I decided to take about an inch off of the horizontal wedges. After that I could tell that it would split large pieces easier. Getting the vertical wedge started first allowed the horizontal wedge to also start easier too. Thanks for the comments and good luck with your build of the processer. I'd say you are getting off on the right foot with a 40 hp engine to power it. Thanks again
@@bassplugger1 I think it's great the effort in making the splitter but just as great is the effort in replying to everyone that comments even now the video is coming up 8 years old. Good guy!
Yep, it’s a oak tree and it’s in the foothills of North Carolina
Is that an Oak tree? What state are you all in? That is a HUGE piece of wood
Thank you
It’s a beast of a machine
Big Logs ! Always the Test ! Of Any ! Good Spliter ! No Saw ! Cutting! With it ! See what ! You do ! With Mark Two !
Thanks
Dangerous job on a horizontal splitter. Use vertical type for speed and efficiency. Great demo of painful work though!
I thought the splitter was supposed to save on labour, this thing is slow, labour intensive, and worst of all , bloody dangerous. But then I see he drives a chev” all makes sense now.
Great job !
Thank you
Tim, I mean to ask for the size and length of the cylinder for the log lift table. Thanks Joe.
It is a 3" dia. cylinder and I think the stroke is 18"
tim, could you tell us the size and type of your log lift table. where did you purchase the cylinder from. Thanks, Joe
looks like more work than splitting with a axe that big wood may break something and im not talking about your machine
Yep you’re right about something could get broken. Also could get seriously injured swinging an axe. We try to be cautious even though it’s dangerous Thanks
@@bassplugger1 hi again ive split quite a few cords and mostly in last 10 years never hurt anything other than sore muscles was wondering that big diameter wood no way to make live edge slabs of it was it low quality only good for burning, wondering where you guys are located
I and a lot of my friends and relatives use firewood for heat in our homes and for heating our water we have stoves that are called Water stoves which heat all of our domestic water in our homes and shops so we have free heat and hot water other than the cost of firewood cutting we’ve been doing this for over 50 years so that’s why I made the splitter to help split the wood we all grew up using wedges and mauls and splitting hammers but this is so much easier and faster I Live in the foothills of western North Carolina. Come on down and we’ll split you a load
Thank you
It might appear that way but it’s anything but rotten
Wood looks rotten.
the base to load the wood is far too narrow, that is why after cutting the cut has no where to stay and that is also wky the operator keep jumping like a kangaroo to prevent the cut to fall on his toes, in short, the machine is pretty bad designed,probably not by a profesional and the operator does not seem to understand the situation
I'd hate to have to do that for a living.
Me too
Hi, Where i can purchase the dump valve, how it’s called i try to search and find nothing Thanks for your help
Look for P & J Equipment. Ask for James
Nice splitter! Shin guards and steel toe boots probably a good idea though!
Still Kickin Thanks. You are dead on about the steel toe boots. The shin guards would be sweet at times too. So far we’ve not had any injuries--just gotta be careful Thanks again
A perfect example @1:00 of why a crane is lot better then log lift................
A company called “Peter Paul’s” makes candy bars. One of them is a MOUNDS bar, another is an ALMOND JOY. They both are the same except one has almonds and the other does not. So some like nuts and some don’t. Same thing for splitters, some like lifts, some don’t
Very nice setup Tim, would love to pick your brain on the lift table.. any means of reaching you without going through the comments section of TH-cam? Thanks in advance Adam
Thanks Adam I have just started using it again this winter and it’s still doing what it was supposed to do You can reach me at bassplugger@gmail.com if you have any questions and there’s a couple more videos that tell more details
Love your splitter. But NC STATE. I am in Chapel Hill. LOL
I totally understand I use to be an avid tar heel fan After paying for my three kids to graduate from State I changed Thanks for the compliment
Hi tom Very nice job Can you send me your email?
Hi tom Very nice job Can you send me your email?
Thanks
My brother and brother n law and myself built one yrs ago about like yours but we never had the lift and the quad split up front nice 👍
One of nicest splitters I have seen, Nice job!
Thanks