Air-powered log splitter?

[brassmonkey001]

I have just acquired a small compressor and I wondered if there is a log splitter that works off compressed air?

 

TIA

[hippytyre]

I've wondered about this too actually. I own a tyre garage and one of my machines runs on 90psi and one of the rams has a crushing force of three tonnes. Would this be enough for tough notty wood?

I'm sure with around 150 psi and a bigger ram you could do better.

You'd need a large receiver tank for it though.

[Mark James]

I've wondered about this too actually. I own a tyre garage and one of my machines runs on 90psi and one of the rams has a crushing force of three tonnes. Would this be enough for tough notty wood?

I'm sure with around 150 psi and a bigger ram you could do better.

You'd need a large receiver tank for it though.

 

Simple answer is no it wouldn't work, it would if you wanted to spend time and lots of money playing about.

And yes you would need a massive tank.

 

 

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[treequip]

You don’t need a large receiver, what you need is Cubic feet/min (CFM), lots and lots of them feeding a large, big, huge cylinder.

 

Even then all you are going to have is a drastically inefficient machine.

 

Sorry but air is not the way to go.

[hippytyre]

If you want a big high pressure blast of air a big tank is the way id go. Anyway, I'd go hydraulic over air any day unless you've got yourself a massive hydrovane.

Anyone ever used one of those unicorn / screw splitters? One of those on a big three phase motor would be cool..... and dangerous as hell.

[mendiplogs]

You don’t need a large receiver, what you need is Cubic feet/min (CFM), lots and lots of them feeding a large, big, huge cylinder.

 

Even then all you are going to have is a drastically inefficient machine.

 

Sorry but air is not the way to go.

 

HI mate ref large receiver my mate had a massive compress it was use at the quarry for drilling but the size of it was like lorry and used a lot of red dev so no good when red is 70p per lt better off with a mf 165 use all week for £15 just the job all the best with it mate jon

[log supplier]

I have just acquired a small compressor and I wondered if there is a log splitter that works off compressed air?

 

TIA

 

that would interesting???

i did have a massive chainsaw that ran off compressed air...

needed to be like the hulk to lift it:scared1:

[Alycidon]

I used to have a brake shoe riveting machine, this has a 150mm dia cylinder and a stroke of around 3 inches. The pin punch would go through steel. Compressor wise I had the biggest I could run on single phase, think about 12 CFM.

 

No way would you get a long enough stroke to make it viable against hydraulic without a huge compressor and reservoir.

 

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[robbo 110]

hydravane compressor produces enough cfm to make it possible.... i see no advantage thou.. an air run system would have to use an 'open' type system, noisy, uneconomical, moisture in air etc etc, hydraulic systems are most common because.... they work!!!!!!!!!!!

[brassmonkey001]

Ah, I didn't think it would really work out. I had in mind something like a motorcycle lift which has a hydraulic ram but is powered by air to raise the ram. I wondered if there was a splitter that worked in a similar fashion. But obviously a bike weighs about a quarter of a ton and for splitting you want at least 5 tons so it's a non starter really. Especially with my tiny 25l compressor!