How To Operate a Log Splitter

[AndyChalmers]

You seem like a really nice guy however with the qty your cutting/splitting you really need a better setup.  Working on the ground with a slow splitter is not great.  Here in the uk we cut logs shorter & thinner, average length would be 9 or 10" and max width upto say what would fit in 1 hand so 6".  We also generally process hardwood.  A processor may be a investment worth having, at worst a faster & better splitter.

[trigger_andy]

You seem like a really nice guy however with the qty your cutting/splitting you really need a better setup.  Working on the ground with a slow splitter is not great.  Here in the uk we cut logs shorter & thinner, average length would be 9 or 10" and max width upto say what would fit in 1 hand so 6".  We also generally process hardwood.  A processor may be a investment worth having, at worst a faster & better splitter.

I’m lucky in that both my 10kw Stoves take 450mm and 500mm logs.

[DocMustard]

Is there a word missing from the title of the clip..........the word 'not' by any chance? After 5 minutes there was more physical work being done to separate the part split logs than anything else and the thing nearly tipped over twice dealing with a couple of knots! If this is how they operate and how they are meant to be operated I will stick with my axes, wedges and sledgehammers thank you. 

[Unframed Dave]

As admitted previously I'm a hobbyist, but would that machine pass safety standards over here? 

 

Looks incredibly dangerous to me. 

[trigger_andy]

9 minutes ago, frammo said:

they must have 37hr days over there if he can afford to work at that speed🤣

I think he makes the most of his money continually posting links to his youtube page on here. 

[Billhook]

On 21/02/2021 at 20:50, Ontario Firewood Resource said:

I know a lot about your country in the WWII area. I probably have the world's biggest private WWII documentary collection in the world. Hail Churchill, he came through after his past failures. Too bad his political success post-war dwindled quickly. I like Bomber Harris too, his monologue reflected fearlessness and ability to stop the Germans in their track. One of the many things that our countries have in common is that we both have one of the two flight-capable Avro Lancasters in the world. I can go to the Warplane Heritage Museum less than an hour and a half away from where I live. I've lost my videos but I will upload footage in the spring

Much more interesting than log splitters!

My father trained in Canada in the War,, starting at New Brunswick and then on to Calgary before going down to Pensacola where he flew Catalinas and then back to England where he flew Wellingtons and Warwicks on Coastal Command out of Davidstowe in Cornwall

The English Lancaster is based near here at Coningsby, about quarter of an hour away and the beautiful plane is often around.  You hear it long before you see it

Here is your plane together with the flying Lancaster at East Kirkby Heritage centre where, they have a taxi only non flying Lancaster  "Just Jane"   I have been for a taxi ride in Just Jane.

Sorry about the shaky video but the sound of 12 Merlins must have affected me!

 

 

[Billhook]

Here is a better video

 

 

 

 

[Billhook]

One more, I wonder how many logs you could split with a Merlin powered propeller splitter!  (Trying to return to topic!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[trigger_andy]

43 minutes ago, frammo said:

Food for thought ...I can stall out 25hp motor on knarly wood and I can guarantee this setup won’t push 22 tonne ...tis all in. The maths ...don’t believe everything that is stuck on a machine 🤣

I thought it was pressure x area = force? Hard to see but that cylinder cant be bigger than 5" can it? Does your hydraulic pump not have a maximum pressure rating? So between the pressure rating and the OD of the piston you'll have your tonnage, no?  Id have thought the 25hp was irrelevant in force once the maximum operating pressure was achieved and would only benefit cycle times, s if a 6.5hp engine couldachievee say 2500psi it would have the same force, but be slower to operate?  

 

I can imagine the force required to push a gnarly log through a 6 way must be quite significant as well.  

[trigger_andy]

Just now, frammo said:

Really ,you gonna make me think ....you need a certain amount of energy to produce a certain amount of force . Hydraulics don’t make energy they just transfer it .if you are only inputting 6.5hp after frictional losses ,heat etc you are never getting that output .too drunk for this 😝

I dont really know, Im asking/musing more than anything.  

 

I imagine my 6.5hp is very much on the small side, but my 13hp GX390 with its 16gal/min two stage pump had a max output of 3000psi before the PRV kicked in. So if you had your 25hp motor bolted onto the side of the same 16 gal two stage would it add more force or just prematurely heat the oil but give you a faster cycle time than my gx390?