Log Splitter

Don't think you'll buy a new one with auto-return, a good size table is important.

Big table is a gift even if you are doing small rings. If you have help then you can have somebody lining up the rings on the table and fierce handy for the big ones that need more than a single split as you have less bending down for the broken pieces. The one I have only has a 3' table but I made another 4' one that is the same height that I use alongside it. If I was buying again then I would definitely go with the biggest table possible. Some kind of a log lifter too for the future when the back might not be so strong would be another addition I would make.

Hand engineering do a nice log splitter as-well

Use the log splitter like you would an axe. Pick where to split each time so it doesn't get caught. I find splitting at the edge first good. Big tables are better too. I'm going to extend the table on my home made one, when I get the chance.

And some of the older tractors have very slow pumps mf 35s 135s etc and they're very slow and you might be better off with Electric

I do quiet a bit of timber for the house. I never put the splitter anymore onto the back of the tractor. I leave it in a shed and just got a set of hoses made up to keep the tractor 30 ft away and outside the shed. I just gather the timber off the fields in the summer, tip in the calf shed and cut up for the winter. The idea be hind the long hoses is that you can hook up easy even if you have a machine on the back of the tractor and do half an hour splitting quick and easy in the dry.

Kentec splitter here for over 12 years. A tapered wedge from hardox and pinned in the event that you have to take off the ram. The taper pushes timber apart

Between Kentec and Mann which would ye go for?

https://www.donedeal.ie/otherfarmmachinery-for-sale/kentec-logsplitter/32573289

https://www.donedeal.ie/otherfarmmachinery-for-sale/log-splitter/32721594

Didnt notice the difference in cobstruction.....I would have thought box section would be stronger...assuming it's a decent thickness...

If you took an RSJ and box section made with equal thickness steel and applied a twisting/bending force I'd think the rsj would bend/twist first

But that's only a guess based on the rsj being a single piece with two ends to form the h shape...to deformed the box I'd guess you have to twist deformed four faces and they might distribute a load better than rsj.....assuming it's not a weak weld keeping it together down one seam that would pop.…

I think you can buy direct from Kentec themselves also, they might be able to do a bit better than the above.

I made one a good few years ago .

ThThe ram i used had more than 2.5ft of a stroke on it.

You can line up 5 rings under it. Then with a 4 way wedge, it can split a lot of timber quick.

I have brackets on it to use it on a front loader too, so you can lift and lower it to where you might want it. You can split timber off a trailer at trailer level, into a wheelbarrow.

Picture quality a bit poor. Log splitter is at the back of a shed and hasnt been used in a while.

Main beam is 12x6 rsj. Wedge is 1ft of cutting edge sharpened with a belt sander welded to the end of the ram..

Table is 10mm checkered plate approx 2ft by 2fr. Ram is off the back actor of a 50b. I have a 4 way wedge that bolts on .

Legs are removable so can drop to within a foot of the ground.

Brackets on it to go on the front of the 50hx which runs it at tickover.

Most of tge parts on it were scrap tgat got repurposed. It was a project when i was 16

I find it the person behind it that is trying to bulldoze it thru the middle of the knot. Tackling it from the sides often works well. If that doesn't work I lob that one to the side and give them a tip of the chainsaw at the end. Might be 2-3 rings for the year. The zetor has good hydraulics.

Would I be without the splitter, god no, it's a lifetime purchase for a farm if bought right

Any update on this? Did you go to see it?