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Hi, I am trying to repair a (homemade by a friend ) woodsplitter that keeps breaking. It mounts on a skidsteer. The hydraulic ram keeps ripping everything apart, I think there may be a pressure valve somewhere on the machine, I am going to lower the pressure. So the attachment plate is somewhat torn, the knives (previously wedges) twist and tear out.Maybe a wedge or knife on the ram side (vs fixed at the end) will help?With a big block fixed at the end?The I beam itself also has torn out and repaired once as pictured. Any advice is appreciated, Thanks
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Reply:Its hard to tell whats going on without the complete picture of the set up. But from what I see there are multiple problems Including, insufficient poor quality Welding/Poor/inferior design such as the 1/8 inch steel that got torn apart like a piece of cardboard. I would say scrap the whole thing and start overOr just go with a traditional wood splitter. I like the convenience of the skid steer attachment but other than that it looks like garbage.Miller 211Hypertherm PM 451961 Lincoln Idealarc 250HTP 221 True Wisdom only comes from Pain.
Reply:Yeah, not dog piling here, but most all the materials are too light and the welds definitely need more heat.
Reply:In my opinion,, you are just proving Archimedes principle of leverage,,
The pusher and the wedge are acting as "levers",, the shape of the wedge forces the end tip of the wedge to do all the work.The wedge, and pusher are just WAY too long.If you reduce the height of the wedge, and the pusher by 1/2,, the splitter will be 90% more successful.Oh, yea, get rid of the tip extension on the wedge,, the wedge MUST be straight..I built a splitter one time that used an axe head as the wedge. No amount of twisted wood could damage the splitter.The splitter only had a 3" tall beam, but, that was plenty, because the wedge was so short.
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Originally Posted by John T
Its hard to tell whats going on without the complete picture of the set up. But from what I see there are multiple problems Including, insufficient poor quality Welding/Poor/inferior design such as the 1/8 inch steel that got torn apart like a piece of cardboard. I would say scrap the whole thing and start overOr just go with a traditional wood splitter. I like the convenience of the skid steer attachment but other than that it looks like garbage.
Reply:Does it use the center ram of the skid steer as the splitting power? Or does it have it's on cylinder?
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Originally Posted by Bob
Does it use the center ram of the skid steer as the splitting power? Or does it have it's on cylinder?
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Originally Posted by SweetMK
In my opinion,, you are just proving Archimedes principle of leverage,,
The pusher and the wedge are acting as "levers",, the shape of the wedge forces the end tip of the wedge to do all the work.The wedge, and pusher are just WAY too long.If you reduce the height of the wedge, and the pusher by 1/2,, the splitter will be 90% more successful.Oh, yea, get rid of the tip extension on the wedge,, the wedge MUST be straight..I built a splitter one time that used an axe head as the wedge. No amount of twisted wood could damage the splitter.The splitter only had a 3" tall beam, but, that was plenty, because the wedge was so short.
Reply:I like the splitter to the back on ours because any hard "popping" logs will fly away from me at the valve instead of towards me... I'm not sure where your valve would be located but I'm assuming close to where you are standing. I think you need to think seriously about starting with a bigger stronger beam and working accordingly. I've run with with tractor hydraulics for around 30 yrs, wore out 2 cylinders and 3 valves and I've never broke a wedge, mount or push block.The harder you fall, the higher you bounce...250 amp Miller DialArc AC/DC StickF-225 amp Forney AC Stick230 amp Sears AC StickLincoln 180C MIGVictor Medalist 350 O/ACut 50 PlasmaLes
Reply:Besides what has already been mentioned. Make sure the cylinder doesn’t have too much travel and is actually hitting the part it’s tearing off. I don’t know much about log splitters but I can’t imagine you need full cylinder travel.Gear: Esab power compact 205 with tbi industries torch BOC Smootharc 185dc tig Miller Syncrowave 350LX |
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发表于 2022-5-19 11:02:17