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Mine looks pretty similarHere is a shot of my "processor". View attachment 100
Does ANYONE have a splitter that’ll effectively handle sweetgum? Because that’s some intertwined wood grain. But if you let it dry under cover for a couple of years it’ll split fairly easy. It’s just that I’VE never encountered anything like it. In comparison to hickory, well the hickory is easy when both are green but let em dry and the sweetgum wins, hands down. I know that’s probably a losing battle but I’m at least gonna ask.
I would want to be guy pulling lever up, other gentleman could be losing a finger soon!BCP Hotwoods ported saws to buck em up and a SuperSplit to finish the job. With straight grain wood 8-18” diameter you can produce 4+ face/hr all the while sipping very little fuel ️.
Thankfully , no fingers lost / injuries in over 2100 face cords produced . I modded the engagement such that if you let go / push down on the lever it stops all forward motion.I would want to be guy pulling lever up, other gentleman could be losing a finger soon!
Slow is good no hurry ..Picked this up a couple of months back- for less that the price of the steel it would take to build from scratch- so worth a tinkering with.
Homebuilt, rather crude and rudimentary horizontal splitter, powered by an old Kohler 161 (fairly rare over here and not in every old tiller or lawn tractor from yesteryear), has a prehistoric Vickers pump and a small non vented oil tank that will hold about 5 of your gallons of oil.
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Pretty standard practice for a homebuilt splitter here in NZ, search, scrape and steal what you can from where to make something that will work- no doubt the steel was all recovered from some other use, the pump is likely off a tractor and the motor could have been on anything. No idea what the ram is off- but it looked to be a decent size and the chrome is good and that is kind of what sold it to me.
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Got the motor running and replaced the missing gas tank with a Honda clone one.
Need to make/replace some hydraulic lines and the thing should run again- although I am picking the cycle times will be way slow.
Have a Honda 13 hp sitting waiting to replace the Kohler and will buy a new more suitable pump if things check out, plus upgrade to a larger oil tank. Figured I would try to get it running as it was built and go from there once I have a baseline.
These are my more usual splitters- Hultz 4.5lb 36" Hickory handle, Plumb 4lb on a cheap Bacho Ash handle and a no name 4lb on Hickory.
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Slow is fast, fast is slow Loss if body parts could be BAD!Slow is good no hurry ..