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#131
04-10-2015, 11:41 AM
I was wondering about that too (as well as Julia?). As you may remember my much simpler "processor"-choke, gag, uses rollers where your angle irons are but then, I don't have the nifty chain conveyor, I use a winch to pull the logs on and then pull them off as I cut them into 16" junks.
Crooked logs or ones with branch/limb protrusions tend to "hang up" but I'm controlling the winch with the hand pendant and can usually  manually coax the hang ups through.
I'll be enviously watching your progress Greg (and keeping an eye open for "Julia") Smile

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04-10-2015, 04:35 PM
(04-10-2015, 08:14 AM)f350ca Wrote: Got some interest do we. lol  Will have to keep you guessing.

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04-11-2015, 12:41 AM
Im hoping the lined chute with the chain drive works out Steve. Am concerned about crooked ones bridging the sides and staying above the chain.
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#134
04-11-2015, 01:08 AM
Is that jaw supposed to bite the log to cut it or just hold it to cut it?

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#135
04-11-2015, 07:43 AM
put a cylinder in the side with a dog on it so you can roll the log.
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04-11-2015, 05:45 PM
Roughed out some of the parts for the splitter today. Went with a 3 inch bore cylinder with a 30 inch stroke.

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04-11-2015, 06:10 PM
Just a cotton pickin' minute here, were you not the one who said I should cut the Ibeam and slot the cylinder back holder in and weld it.  Big Grin  Big Grin   Big Grin 
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04-11-2015, 07:55 PM
Just another one of those do as I say not as I do senerios Dave.
This style of cylinder has a full width bushing across the end rather than the clevis that yours uses. Anyway I lost my 25mm bar I was going to use. lol
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04-11-2015, 08:01 PM
(04-11-2015, 07:55 PM)f350ca Wrote: Just another one of those do as I say not as I do senerios Dave.
This style of cylinder has a full width bushing across the end rather than the clevis that yours uses. Anyway I lost my 25mm bar I was going to use. lol

I'm just pulling your leg, Greg Smile
My cylinder is wider than the flange so I can't do it that way.

How on earth can you lose 25mm thick bar, not as if it can float away. Must be a brain thing Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin
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04-11-2015, 08:30 PM
In their infinite wisdom the rod end bushing is made narrower than the cylinder on this one. Have to make 3/4 thick bushings and weld them to the inside of the gussets to centre the cylinder and carry the load on the pin.
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