LASCO cone splitter

[aodhagan]

Hi,

 

 

does anyone out there have any experience of LASCO cone splitters ?

 

I want to fit a cone splitter to my skidsteer.

 

The LASCO units look weel made.

 

There are none anywhere near me that I can see working.

 

 

Any advise would be appreciated.

 

 

Thanks

[JimE]

Where abouts are you?

 

They pretty much do what they say on the tin really, I demoed one last week and it just crunches through what you put infront of it.

People who I was demoing to placed an order.

 

The only consideration with a skidsteer is that you are going to have to skid about to position the tip into the wood, so it is going to be quite hard on your tyres.

I have customers with them on telehandlers who are very happy so I dont think that is a particular problem.

[aodhagan]

Hi Jim,

 

 

thanks for the reply.

 

I am in the Irish Republic, not sure if there are any of them on the island north or south.

 

 

I will want to split softwood mainly, the odd bit of hardwood.

 

How do you reckon it would perform on fairly green softwood ?

would it split or just drill a hole in it ?

 

Thanks

[JimE]

Ah Ok, yes, I've not got any customers over there! Can supply to you though.

 

Most of what I have done is hardwood, but have also done some fairly well seasoned softwood about 1m diamter.

To be honest, it will probably eat it for breakfast.

The only time I have had problems is when the wood is saturated or rotten, and then the tip just cant dig in.

You will have a bit of downpressure on your skidsteer so you can push it down a bit to get it started, once its bitten into the timber you are away.

Its quite a steep angle on the cone, so once they bite its going to work. Some of the cheaper cones are much smaller so I can see they might just drill a hole and not split.

 

In the pictures is the M2 4.0k model. Cone is about 60cm long, 30cm diamter for scale.

Do you know the specs of the hydraulic aux circuit on your skidder?

Edited January 30, 2014 by JimE

[aodhagan]

Hi Jim,

 

 

 

Thats great information. I reckon it would suit my job well, the biggest I'd have would be 1m, with the odd bit a bit bigger.

 

The skidsteer is rated at 57 ltrs/min so i'd say it would handle it ok aswell.

 

 

What sort of money would it set me back and where are you located ?

 

 

 

Thanks

[County 764]

I was thinking about getting lasco that could go on the forwarder, but don't know if anyone has tried it on such a machine? as they normally appear on diggers.

[JimE]

The M2 in the pictures needs 45+lpm, so would be spot on with your skidsteer. As you can see its doing well on 1m timber!

I'm in Hampshire, but delivery no issues. I'll PM you a price in a mo.

[JimE]

I was thinking about getting lasco that could go on the forwarder, but don't know if anyone has tried it on such a machine? as they normally appear on diggers.

 

It can be done, but a forwarding crane is lacking the 'bucket' cylinder that a digger has. So the cone splitter would be dangling from the end of the crane and there would be less control.

No reason why it wouldnt work though, or you could make a basic ram and linkage to offer you the control.

What sort of hydraulic flow and pressure would you have?

[County 764]

It can be done, but a forwarding crane is lacking the 'bucket' cylinder that a digger has. So the cone splitter would be dangling from the end of the crane and there would be less control.

No reason why it wouldnt work though, or you could make a basic ram and linkage to offer you the control.

What sort of hydraulic flow and pressure would you have?

 

I will double check that its a old Timberjack 1210. The obvious machine to fit it one to would be one of the diggers we have 9t and 14t Volvos but they are normally away on contracts and the forwarder is mostly used for shifting the big diameter firewood about anyway.