Any homemade log splitters?

[jbbies]

Any of you made your own log splitters? If so could you post pictures and say what you like and would change.

 

[OccupantRJ]

no pics, but built one years ago and found out that I needed a two stage hydraulic pump, instead of a single stage. The single stage did not have enough uhmmp.

 

[jbbies]

What did you use for the actual splitter? did you make one or buy one

 

[bsakal]

Good thread. I have a Mighty Mac splitter that is almost 30 years old. I also have a 5" cylinder, an 8-horse Briggs and Stratton engine, a pump, and a valve body laying around. I'm thinking of making another one.

 

[OccupantRJ]

I used a piece of thick plate with the edge cut and ground to a wedge shape, and the main rail was a piece of wide flange steel beam, not I beam, which is narrower

 

[mcgyverit]

This is one that my dad/grandfather/me built probably 35 years or more ago. Story is that they were tearing down a school in downtown St. Louis. In that school they had a trash compactor and since my dad worked for the school district was able to snag what he needed. Welder by trade, him and my grandfather acquired a piece of I beam to mount everything on. put a hitch on the front so he could take it wherever he needed it and mounted a traded for axle and wheels. over the years there were many upgrades to it, I redesigned the push plate because it was bending on some of the tougher wood blocks. then one season we actually bent the I beam and had to straighten it back out then welded 1/4" angle iron to strengthen it up. doing that we had to move the axle because it wasnt balance anymore. latest was putting new wheel bearings in the axle, after 30 years of sitting outside in the elements they finally shot craps. Still works great and i usually use it more than a few times a year. Just make sure you over build it if you are making your own, portability is a key, I can move it by myself, but it is really stout. The push plate takes lots of abuse when the logs are not cut square, make sure to strengthen it up enough for the tonage being applied.

 

[Dunerash]

I made this one in my high school shop class a few years back

LOL.. just kidding.. Nice set up though..

 

[Tim Cowan]

That Bob Cat job takes all the fun out of it. The bigest job is taking out the ashes.

 

[91FE]

I made this one in my high school shop class a few years back

LOL.. just kidding.. Nice set up though..

That thing is badass.

 

[srmofo]

That thing is badass.