The Official Log Splitter thread

[Long Bar]

Would love to see that in action some time.

Thanks, I'll see If can make a video at some point

 

[bryanr2]

Thanks, I'll seeing I cam make a video at some point

Yeah I’d like to see that splitter eat.

 

[10/80]

Anyone here added a log lifter to their splitter?

 

[sixonetonoffun]

My cousins gifted this Forest King 22 ton wood splitter to me last fall the week after Thanksgiving. It was their late fathers and their mother joined him last year. While cleaning out everything to sell the homestead they chose to gift it to me rather then taking it another route like CL or junk sale.

It's more China then I've owned in one unit but that's ok too. It's much older then it looks FWIW it sat tarped behind the garage until the tires rotted off. Cousin spent $200+ at a shop to get it into gift condition! Love my family!

 

[Woodtroll]

My cousins gifted this Forest King 22 ton wood splitter to me last fall the week after Thanksgiving. It was their late fathers and their mother joined him last year. While cleaning out everything to sell the homestead they chose to gift it to me rather then taking it another route like CL or junk sale.

It's more China then I've owned in one unit but that's ok too. It's much older then it looks FWIW it sat tarped behind the garage until the tires rotted off. Cousin spent $200+ at a shop to get it into gift condition! Love my family!
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Very nice! Seems you have good family, or at least good cousins!

 

[Stump Shot]

My cousins gifted this Forest King 22 ton wood splitter to me last fall the week after Thanksgiving. It was their late fathers and their mother joined him last year. While cleaning out everything to sell the homestead they chose to gift it to me rather then taking it another route like CL or junk sale.

It's more China then I've owned in one unit but that's ok too. It's much older then it looks FWIW it sat tarped behind the garage until the tires rotted off. Cousin spent $200+ at a shop to get it into gift condition! Love my family!
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Nice looking machine, you got there, good news is things can be replaced as you go along easily and fairly affordably. I know cause that's what I did to mine after i9t had lots if time on it.

 

[10/80]

Anyone know what's under the plug on this wood splitter hydraulic control ?

 

[Al Smith]

The thing with a nut is the detent pressure control and I think under the port is the transfer from from high flow lower pressure to low flow high pressure .That is usually factory set at around 900 PSI. That's a typical control valve sold under a number of brand names .

 

[10/80]

I ask because I seen a splitter using two of these control valves linked together (same feed line), one controling the main splitting ram, the other controling the much smaller log lifter ram without any obvious restrictor valve to control pressure to the smaller ram.

 

[Al Smith]

Some pumps had the relief built into them and others used the control valve .If I'm not mistaken the "dirty hand " design models used this system in the pump itself . Quite frankly I'd have to look at my home built that useses a Prince control valve .I might add most 3,000 PSI systems have the actual bypass relief set at 2500-2550PSI factory set .Making it impossible reach tonnage of say 31 tons on a 4" cylinder .However if you don't have an operational relief you can blow the pump apart and yes I've done it on an Oliver OC-6 crawler .

 

[10/80]

It would appear there is indeed a pressure relief valve under that plug.

 

[10/80]

The guy in this clip has installed a log lifter kit to his splitter, the lifter kit contained a variable pressure / flow valve necessary to prevent the lifter from becoming a catapult!

 

[Al Smith]

There is some merit to a lifter but I chose a tilter for my home built because it was more simple to make .Problem became I got older and had a hard time tilting it .I solved that by using a cable assembly to the cylinder to tilt it and a boat winch to lay it back down .The beam is a piling beam W10 by 72 pounds per foot and 6 feet long with a 160 to 175 pound 5 inch cylinder and a 200 pound foot plate of 2 inch steel .You might say over kill but it will last forever and it was all free material .I'd guess the entire unit might go 1200 to 1500 pounds ,bullet proof .

 

[10/80]

Re the above clip, anyone else notice how much the engine is labouring when operating just the log lifter?....Appeard to take more effort out of the engine than splitting wood, makes me thing something isn't right?