big rings

[DN22 Gardening]

hi all,

 

we've got about 80 ton of rings to log up, all arb waste

 

they're all in crates drying nicely and we've got a petrol log splitter on a trailer thats lets us do about 1 and half to two cube an hour ( two men).

 

Anyone know of a machine that'll go on the back of the tractor that will split rings of up to 36" dia.

 

either a large splitter or processor that we can pile em in and miraculasly, nice split logs come out the other end.....

 

thanks in advance,

 

dave

[gensetsteve]

I dont think that exists and if it does will be expensive. i have a verticla splitter I would forklift it on or two blokes knock it down to one man size then put the stool back on. I find if you can work it on and off a trailer saves bending to the floor all day. I would split asap before it gets two dry.

[renewablejohn]

I thought this could be modified to do big rings if you had a barrel rotator on the end to automatically rotate the big ring in time with the piston.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Hir7E4Yhw&feature=related]YouTube - wood splitter[/ame]

[gensetsteve]

I saw a screw splitter on the end of a mini digger on here a few weeks ago.

[jamesmerriman7]

Anybody have any idea what the screw splitters on the end of a mini digger are like? Was told that they follow the grain unlike a splitter which will split straight and be tidy! any thoughts......

[Hogs Breath]

I have split rings on my horizontal Balfor with hydraulic blade and log lift, splitting the ring in half when it lays flat then put the two pieces flat side down and lift blade to split into four and so on.

No pics tho.

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

We used the Hydracrack on large lumps of Elm-Ash-Beech. I have some pictures somewhere in a file I could find if you like.

[tothby1]

screw splitter on mini digger slow

my next idea for splitting rings is to make a splitter pin for my hydralic breaker on the mini digger.

[ashman]

hi all,

 

we've got about 80 ton of rings to log up, all arb waste

 

they're all in crates drying nicely and we've got a petrol log splitter on a trailer thats lets us do about 1 and half to two cube an hour ( two men).

 

Anyone know of a machine that'll go on the back of the tractor that will split rings of up to 36" dia.

 

either a large splitter or processor that we can pile em in and miraculasly, nice split logs come out the other end.....

 

thanks in advance,

 

dave

 

I am in the process of building a splitter that will handle 36" rings, it will have a 16 way split on it (hopefully)

Designed for splitting poplar, depending on how knotty it may split other hardwoods.

 

As yet it is untested, but if it works as planned and all is good, it could be up for hire.

 

Rob.

[scbk]

How easy is your wood to split?

 

What I do with big rings (simillar size to yours) is knock them in half with a wedge so you can lift them up onto the splitter