Hydraulic power pack for splitter

[Tom at Heartwood]

Thanks for the useful advice based on your experiences. It looks then as though a portable hydraulic power pack is suitable to power a smallish log splitter.

 

Diesel rather than petrol engined would be preferable to keep fuel costs down but they seem to be more of a rarity to buy secondhand. Petrol engined Panther Midi or JCB Beaver look to be available secondhand for around £300 (possibly less).

 

My thinking on having a separate power pack to splitter is that I could transport both in a van onto site and split logs without having to drive or transport a tractor. But also, a 3PL mounted splitter could obviously be used on a tractor back in the yard and the power pack could be used to drive a conveyor for loading and filling bulk bags (a neat stowable one of those would be handy).

 

The Lawnflight petrol engined splitter does look a useful package for the price. Certainly an option. Would it be liftable from that top loop in and out of a van with a swing lift?

 

Thanks again.

 

Tom.

[windfall]

I think you would have to be lucky to get a petrol beaver or similar for under £500, they seem to hold thier values very well.

 

If you do find one at that price id just buy it mate.

[scbk]

Nah when I was buying the older ones seem to be £250-£350, but the key is how far away from you it is.

I paid £400 for my trojan which has a slightly bigger engine and it came with a breaker gun (yet to find a use for that!) but the hoses are pretty worn

[windfall]

The older ones only have a 20lpm flow rate

[farmer_ben]

I'm running the same splitter as Matt off a JCB Trojan powerapack

 

Here's a vid of mine, this is from cold and the ram is a bit slow until the machine warms up (dunno if that means it needs a hyd oil change??)

You can get through logs at a fair rate with one person lifting them onto the bench and the other splitting

 

 

 

 

 

Rank One - Airwave, havent heard that cracker for a while thanks for that

[scbk]

lol aye it's a good tune

 

 

Here's a slightly better video, recorded today

 

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuSLDVIDw-s]YouTube - ‪Log splitter for hire Inverness‬‏[/ame]

[windfall]

Same splitter as me

[treebloke]

We use a petrol power pack on our log splitter, we also some times couple it to our JCB mini digger when on site.

[SAM66S]

What splitters are they in the vids & best place to get one from? thanks

[scbk]

What splitters are they in the vids & best place to get one from? thanks

 

I got mine from "harrows-r-us" who trade on ebay, just a cheap one (£450), you can tell it's made on a budget but it does the job for me