Cub and Log splitters?

[Ron Luebke]

would a pump that hooks to the pto be the way to go with a hydrolic splitter?

[Rudi]

Bill:

That splitter is the brain child of WK "Bill" Poor, and you can find him on the Specialty Services pages of the Cub Manual Server along with some of the other Awesome Fabricators that haunt this forum.

Rick Prentice is the next one to get his stuff up on the server and followed by PWL - Phil Lenke.. who is a genius with extrusions for grommets, adapters and the like..

I would like to find out what the 2-Stage is worth... that will determine when and if I can do this.... always coin that determines the projects huh

I have seen the Screw type splitters before and they are pretty safe in the hands of a person trained properly in their use. Just like any other piece of equipment... safety procedures are designed to be followed, not ignored. The best Safety Feature for any piece of equipment is "What the GOOD LORD gave us between our ears".

I have used the hydraulic tag a long splitters for almost 20 years now, and they are my personal choice.. but with that said, every year almost there is an article in one of the papers in the province about some idjit who had his fingers or her fingers chopped off in a log splitter.....

If you want to see something dangerous.. I gotta post the pics of my Father-in-laws splitter.. this will scare the bejeezsus out of any normal human being.

Picture this..

A really heavy 3 foot diameter or so steel flywheel... with a large axe head WELDED to it... that gets powered by a Briggs and Stratton 10 hp horizontal shaft engine. DON'T PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE WAY ... a cleaver isn't as surgically precise as this AXE :!:

Dad uses this splitter EVERY year to split his wood. I won't go near it. I almost have my own coffee cup at Emergency, but if I used this.. they would give me my very own Coffee Maker

Tim "the ToolMan" Taylor -- NOT!!

[Matt Kirsch]

That got me to thinking. At the county fair some years back I saw a similar splitter. The wedge wasn't welded to the flywheel itself, though, it was on a slide and driven by the flywheel through a connecting rod. A hit-n-miss engine provided the power.

The wheel would spin, the wedge would move up and down, and the operator would put short, dry, straight-grained blocks of firewood under the wedge as it came down.

The hydraulic ram splitter is the only kind that's practical for anything that isn't perfect straight-grained stuff, though.