Splitters

[scbk]

Thanks for the advice folks

If anyone on here is interested, in the end I got a splitter from "Harrows are us" and am running it off a 2nd hand JCB Trojan, here's a wee video

 

I made up a workbench out of pallet wood to sit it on at a nice height

 

 

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyOUAgY69f0]YouTube - Vertical hydraulic log splitter[/ame]

[mendiplogs]

HI SCDK do you hire out splitter mate if so it just one handed op:thumbdown: watch out for H/S mate all the best jon

[mattplace]

You got the same splitter then!

 

Not a bad little setup is it?!

 

Your lever is setup the opposite to mine. I pull the lever down for the ram to extend. is that intentional?

[Mortimer Firewood]

I'm thinking about a powered splitter.

Don't have a tractor or anything to run one off

Although a electric one would be cheaper to run (and possibly more reliable?) I think something petrol powered would be more useful

 

I've used a tractor mounted vertical table type splitter before which I liked, some of the petrol ones I've seen for sale look like backache unless you modify them

 

I can weld but don't know anything at all about hydraulics

 

Is it possible to run a splitter normally mounted on a tractor off a hydraulic "power pack"

 

 

As an example, would this splitter:

LS 2 10 Ton Tonne Hydraulic Log Splitter ( Heavy duty) on eBay (end time 23-Dec-10 19:19:31 GMT)

 

Plug straight into and work fine off this engine/pump:

VANGUARD 9HP HYDRAULIC POWERPACK ( HYDRAULIC PUMP ) on eBay (end time 04-Dec-10 14:06:49 GMT)

 

THOR magik 13 ton b and s petral

[scbk]

You got the same splitter then!

 

Not a bad little setup is it?!

 

Your lever is setup the opposite to mine. I pull the lever down for the ram to extend. is that intentional?

 

Aye it's pretty good

 

You can change the "polarity" of the lever by swapping the hoses to the powerpack over

 

I hooked them up like that so that if you were to fall on the lever the ram goes up, rather than down onto any bodypart which may be in the way

[mattplace]

good point!

 

 

i'd probably get confused though!