05-20-2015, 02:35 AM
That's a nice splitter, great job.
I ruminated over the idea of building a splitter for about 3 years, went back and forth between the ideas of building a tractor-mounted one or a stand-alone splitter, vertical or horizontal, in the end I went and bought a chinese one! Decided I needed a log splitter more than I needed another project at the time.
Something that I have often wondered about with log splitters, every one I have seen on the internet from the USA and Europe uses a ram to push the log onto the wedge, whereas all the splitters I see here in Australia drive the wedge into the log, i.e. the log stays still and the wedge moves. I've often wondered why the difference, I know that water goes down the sink the opposite way around in the southern vs northern hemispheres, but not sure that can explain log splitters going the opposite way too?
I ruminated over the idea of building a splitter for about 3 years, went back and forth between the ideas of building a tractor-mounted one or a stand-alone splitter, vertical or horizontal, in the end I went and bought a chinese one! Decided I needed a log splitter more than I needed another project at the time.
Something that I have often wondered about with log splitters, every one I have seen on the internet from the USA and Europe uses a ram to push the log onto the wedge, whereas all the splitters I see here in Australia drive the wedge into the log, i.e. the log stays still and the wedge moves. I've often wondered why the difference, I know that water goes down the sink the opposite way around in the southern vs northern hemispheres, but not sure that can explain log splitters going the opposite way too?
Lathe (n); a machine tool used in the production of milling machine components.
Milling Machine (n); a machine tool used in the production of lathe components.
Milling Machine (n); a machine tool used in the production of lathe components.