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Building a Cub Mounted Wood Splitter - Part 2

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Building a Cub Mounted Wood Splitter - Part 2

Postby Rudi » Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:03 pm

In the previous part we have seen the Splitter mounted on Ray's MF1040 with the 3 point hitch.

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The next step is to fabricate the drawbar assembly for Ellie. We first cut a piece of 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" angle iron at 25-1/8" long. Drilled two 5/8" holes 8" oc from the center line of the drawbar. These mate up perfectly with the 2" spacing of the Cub's drawbar.

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We then mounted the splitter to Ellie's rear rockshaft, elevated to bring the 3 point drawbar assembly to be level with Ellie's drawbar and test fitted the angle iron to line up for the link brackets.

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The lift link brackets require 2 pcs 2-1/4" x 4" x 1/4" steel flat bar with 1" holes 1-1/4" oc from the end of each bracket . We then welded up the link brackets to the angle iron and the new assembly was ready to mount.

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Voila! ... a simple assembly that will now mate a 3 point hitch drawbar assembly to a Cub drawbar :D

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The only thing left to do with the mounting configuration is to drill a 9/16" hole in the top link brackets to accomodate the Cub's rear rockshaft a little more snugly than the 1" hole for the 3 point top link pin. A 1/2" x 3-1/2" pin will be used for this.

The next step in the project is to make a plate for the valve. Used a piece of 3" angle iron for this step. Align it in place

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Tack weld it

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And then finish weld it in place.

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With this done, it was time to take Ellie back home for the next step in the project.

Since this is a project to put a splitter on a Cub, I guess it makes sense to use a Cub hydraulic valve even if it is a Cub Cadet valve. This one actually came off of a Cub Cadet 129 Hydro .. which is kinda neat considering that is the same model of Cadet that I have. This is the 2nd valve of this type that I have been able to get from Joe's Outdoor Power. He usually has all kinds of interesting stuff for interesting projects.. :D

The first step was to mount the valve to the angle iron plate. Drilled two 1/4" holes and mounted the valve to the plate with 8 washers acting as a temporary bushing (had to get some bushing stock). Neglected to take a pic.. :roll: :shock:

One of the big obstacles for me was that I didn't have a lever for the valve. Been trying to figure out what to use. The other Cub Cadet valve I have has a really cool and I mean really 8) lever and mounting assembly for it. It was made by one of the best fabricators I know.. (yup.. you know who you is :D ) and I figured I was going to have to make something unless I could find something that would fit. Unfortunately I am no where near the fabricator he is.. so finding a used/surplus lever that would work was my only chance. I got lucky and Princess happened to have one in the parts box (thanks Leo) that I got for $5.00. Did I mention that Princess is my favourite department store :?: :lol:

Now that I had the lever.... the big question was how do I mount it :?:

One of the first things I had to do was get the proper sized links to attach the lever to the valve shaft. After a bit of searching at Princess, found em and surprisingly.. well to me at least the darn thing fit rather well. :shock: So.. with that solved... how do I mount it to the plate and will it be the right height to keep the link basically horizontal :?:

Being a cabinet maker, I kinda have lots of different parts in my parts bins.. so I figured something in them bins had to be of some use. After a bit of searching.. picking up parts and tossing them back in their bins, I found a pair of 1" x 1" L brackets that seemed to just about perfect. Drilled the lever to accept a 1/4" x 1" bolt. I also had a piece of 1/8" x 2" steel bar stock which would work as the mount itself. So, took out my spring clamps, an F clamp and laid it out.

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With the spring clamps holding the L brackets I tried the lever to see how it would work. Seemed to work fine.

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Drilled the holes for the 1/4" bolts for the L brackets and one to hold the mounting plate to the angle iron before squaring it up and drilling the final mounting hole.

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Mark the mounting plate and then cut to size.

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Clean up the burrs, radius the corners and poof.. all done.

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Almost finished

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Check to make sure that it works properly.

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The last thing to do was drill a hole for a cotter pin.

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Cotter pin in and all done :!:

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Then next step will be to plumb the system. That will be Building a Cub Mounted Wood Splitter - Part 3.
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