Homemade log splitter wedge

[Gmorgan]

Evening all,

 

I'm in the early stages of fabricating a towable splitter, I've got a good idea of how I'm going to go about it I.e engine, hydraulics e.t.c.

The only thing I'm struggling to work out is what exactly to use for the splitting wedge?! I've considered using the head of a maul or an axe but I prefer the look of a wedge seen on most horizontal splitters. I'm guessing it's hardened steel of some sort?

Any idea of what I could use and more importantly where I could get something to use.

 

Thanks

George

[treequip]

Evening all,

 

I'm in the early stages of fabricating a towable splitter, I've got a good idea of how I'm going to go about it I.e engine, hydraulics e.t.c.

The only thing I'm struggling to work out is what exactly to use for the splitting wedge?! I've considered using the head of a maul or an axe but I prefer the look of a wedge seen on most horizontal splitters. I'm guessing it's hardened steel of some sort?

Any idea of what I could use and more importantly where I could get something to use.

 

Thanks

George

 

Having made a few, the material of choice is the boron steel they use for digger bucket edges, it even has one side nearly there with the edge profile and any engineer can mill the other side

[andy perkins]

Evening all,

 

I'm in the early stages of fabricating a towable splitter, I've got a good idea of how I'm going to go about it I.e engine, hydraulics e.t.c.

The only thing I'm struggling to work out is what exactly to use for the splitting wedge?! I've considered using the head of a maul or an axe but I prefer the look of a wedge seen on most horizontal splitters. I'm guessing it's hardened steel of some sort?

Any idea of what I could use and more importantly where I could get something to use.

 

Thanks

George

 

old chipper blades

[treequip]

old chipper blades

 

Seriously??

[andy perkins]

Seriously??

 

yep bolt two together

[Logged On]

Why 'buy' teeth?

 

Go see a farmer, surely they'll have old points off a plough or similar lying around (we do - a 45gal drum of them)...

 

Then, get the 2 similar points, and weld them 'back to back' to make the wedge shape....

[treequip]

yep bolt two together

 

How would you fasten them to the splitter.

[Kevm]

Do you really need a super hard metal for the wedge? - I just used a piece of 20mm plate.

[treequip]

Do you really need a super hard metal for the wedge? - I just used a piece of 20mm plate.

 

Plain mild steel plate is OK but needs to be a bit heavier gauge than an alloy steel alloy with good wear characteristics.

 

Super hard is a bad idea, this is the entire point about chipper blades, they are unsuitable because they are too hard, to weld to other parts because of the problems that come with welding dissimilar steels. They are also too brittle.

[Ashes_Firewood]

I didn't make mine but it's made from the same stuff they make the tip of excavator buckets from like treequip suggested. If it can't split it then it will cut it (within reason)