Just brought home my Monster Log Splitter

[just_sawing]

Have an order on the Mill for enough rails to float a battleship. I have 60 acres of ceder that is on the small side for sawing. THis seems a marriage made in heaven. I can use the smaller poles as Split rail and the larger on the mill

Still have a few things to add but the main mast and all is together. It will do from 2 to 12 Foot.

[TnAndy]

Is that about a 2' cylinder on the left end ? Can't tell exactly.

What do you do, run the post down 2', back up and stick a 2' block of something in between for the next 2' ?

[just_sawing]

4in with a two inch rod and a 2 foot stroke

[Alaska]

just for firewood anybody use an electric logsplitter?

[Hoosier Cowboy]

Couldn't imagine using a electric splitter

[just_sawing]

I can do firewood but this is for rails

[elkhound]

i hope to see a few pictures of this in action.i like it...alot.

[light rain]

OOhhh, cedar in the stove smells good... I went to make a pmt. at Home Depot today and they had their gas splitters on sale. 22 ton about $1200.00 and a larger one for $1600.00... I wish...

[TnAndy]

Originally Posted by Hoosier Cowboy

Couldn't imagine using a electric splitter

Electric on a hydraulic ram type splitter, I'd agree. Most hydraulic splitters use a 5-6hp gas engine, or larger (I've got an 8hp on mine for example), and you'd have to use probably a 2-3hp electric motor to run the same size pump.....plus you would be limited in where you could use the splitter, being tied to a source of electricity. And the larger ones need 240v power, so you'd most likely have to have a special circuit run for it.

But those "kinetic" type splitters that use a large flywheel (55lb) and a rack/pinion ram don't take near as much horsepower, and I can see them using electric.

DR products builds one that they claim "outsplitts a 22 ton hydraulic model", using a 1/2hp electric motor. AND it claims a 2 1/2 second cycle time. Those things are AMAZING to watch run.

http://www.drpower.com/power-equipme...ectric-new.axd

[Sawmill Jim]

One my projects I am going to build a manual version of this splitter . I have a few valves to make it automatic be not near enough and I need to build with what I have on hand . At present I am building a wood splitter to hang on my backhoe, this way I can reach out and split wood sitting in my seat . Here is the one I really like . For those with slow internet it has a log deck you put the logs on then the log is flipped on a conveyor and stops at the length block you want .This triggering a hold down with the saw automatically cutting the block that drops in the splitting chamber .

YouTube

[just_sawing]

I own 60 acres of mostly cedar. I own a sawmill. It seems that it would be an obvious solution but here is the problem most are about 6 to eight inches across at the small end.
My homestead solution is to turn them into split rail fences. Since there just aren't people chopping at the bit to split there own there appears to be a good market for them.
If you buy (The only place I have found them) they are going for $15 a piece. With having all the support equipment I can comfortably sell for $10. I have a large order now waiting.
My problem is that the only rail splitter that I have found is in Sequim Washington. That is to far away for a road trip so we have built one.
If I put a 8 incher up I get three rails from it and each brings 10 dollars. For a eight inch log to produce $30 dollars is a good payout. 6 produces two.

[light rain]

Hope you find a splitter closer to home. In the meantime, if you know of someone wanting to sell a sorghum press in the Midwest please let me know. Not for me but for someone I know. (Had to go to the kitchen to find that "h" ).

[kasilofhome]

Originally Posted by Alaska

just for firewood anybody use an electric logsplitter?

Yes, in the basement
The main one outside 27 ton....my son at 14 invested in that one.....he does 99 percent of the wood work

The ele one is handy to sizing wood as needed to fill our stove full.

[ChristieAcres]

Originally Posted by just_sawing

I own 60 acres of mostly cedar. I own a sawmill. It seems that it would be an obvious solution but here is the problem most are about 6 to eight inches across at the small end.
My homestead solution is to turn them into split rail fences. Since there just aren't people chopping at the bit to split there own there appears to be a good market for them.
If you buy (The only place I have found them) they are going for $15 a piece. With having all the support equipment I can comfortably sell for $10. I have a large order now waiting.
My problem is that the only rail splitter that I have found is in Sequim Washington. That is to far away for a road trip so we have built one.
If I put a 8 incher up I get three rails from it and each brings 10 dollars. For a eight inch log to produce $30 dollars is a good payout. 6 produces two.

Well, what do you know?! Right here in my neck of the woods. I found the CL ad, too. Since we aren't in a position to buy said beast, but my DH could build it? I am going to call the guy and go over for a little visit. There is a remote possibility, he may be interested in a barter deal... If not, DH will take a good look at it. We would like to put up a lot of split rail fencing on our property.

[just_sawing]

There are a few problems with his design but that doesn't mean it isn't what is probably best for the money. By the time you buy everything his price isn't that bad. I have had the misfortune of everything that I had in a great logsplitter for the day has had to be replaced.
If I build another I will install twin cylinders to split all the way. THe problem is that means it will be approx 24 foot long.

[Sawmill Jim]

Originally Posted by just_sawing

There are a few problems with his design but that doesn't mean it isn't what is probably best for the money. By the time you buy everything his price isn't that bad. I have had the misfortune of everything that I had in a great logsplitter for the day has had to be replaced.
If I build another I will install twin cylinders to split all the way. THe problem is that means it will be approx 24 foot long.

I got a bunch of twenty two foot H and I beams .Two of them came from a truck scale I never got around to putting in .