Log splitter

Green farmer

Looking to get a log splitter for the back of a modern tractor. Around 16 tonne, vertical standing. Any recommendations for good makes out there or who supplies decent ones anywhere in Munster or Midlands , that wouldn't twist or bend over time etc. Going splitting a 1/2 artic load of softwood.

MfMan

Think about getting a horizontal one? That way you could lay 2/3 blocks one beside the other and split them in sequence, save time if you've a good bit to do, and it mightn't work with a vertical one if the blocks aren't uniform or even. I've a Major one like this, very handy for the bits I've to do.

foreman

We have a 22 tonne horizontal one here.

Splits alot of timber in an hour and no dore shins!!!!

Green farmer

Hadn't really thought of a horizontal splitter. Are they easier to work with then a vertical one ?

raypallas

Have a malone one here at home, well made and strong with no faults. Make sure that it's at a good working height or you will have one hell of a pain in your back after!

What ever type you get its handy to have a lad with a wheel barrow drawing away as you split so you're not left with a big pile at the end of it!

patsy_mccabe

Make sure it is CE marked too. You only have 2 hands and 2 hands minus one hand you can't clap no more......and you'll have to get a one handed wheelbarrow.

gctest50

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Make sure it is CE marked too. You only have 2 hands and 2 hands minus one hand you can't clap no more......and you'll have to get a one handed wheelbarrow.

be grand

Green farmer

Anybody ever use a log splitter from MB in Carlow. Their up on donedeal. Look like the Malone ones but more reasonably priced.

LiveWell

This may be of interest to you Tractor Log Splitter Hartnett Products Cork.

riemann

For the smaller branches

Green farmer

Ended up buying the Malone one in the end. Working away no issues so far.

lakill Farm

I myself will buy a hand engineering one sometime

Based in dromone co meath. They also make zero grazers and buckets and bog trailers

MickeyShtyles

lakill Farm wrote: »

I myself will buy a hand engineering one sometime

Based in dromone co meath. They also make zero grazers and buckets and bog trailers

Yer getting lazy Lakill!
Must be the old age setting in!
€85 for a fiskars axe!

lakill Farm

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

Yer getting lazy Lakill!
Must be the old age setting in!
€85 for a fiskars axe!

High hours on the clock

A standard axe and a ring buster also (like a sledge with a "v" welded to the head)

lakill Farm

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

Yer getting lazy Lakill!
Must be the old age setting in!
€85 for a fiskars axe!

High hours on the clock

A standard axe and a ring buster also (like a sledge with a "v" welded to the head)

sonnybill

raypallas wrote: »

Have a malone one here at home, well made and strong with no faults. Make sure that it's at a good working height or you will have one hell of a pain in your back after!

What ever type you get its handy to have a lad with a wheel barrow drawing away as you split so you're not left with a big pile at the end of it!

What kind of money is the Malone ? And how high off the ground is it on tractor arms up to save your back ?

wrangler

lakill Farm wrote: »

High hours on the clock

A standard axe and a ring buster also (like a sledge with a "v" welded to the head)

Always use an axe here, ten times faster,
when I'm sawing I just cut knotty bits shorter to make them easier split

Reggie.

wrangler wrote: »

Always use an axe here, ten times faster,
when I'm sawing I just cut knotty bits shorter to make them easier split

It is till you come across that one bastard of a block

wrangler

Reggie. wrote: »

It is till you come across that one bastard of a block

I split them with the chainsaw, filled our wood shed with timber from Ophelia and would've only split 4 or 5 with the chainsaw......

Green farmer

wrangler wrote: »

I split them with the chainsaw, filled our wood shed with timber from Ophelia and would've only split 4 or 5 with the chainsaw......

It all depends on the timber you got. If you had a load of crappy knotty timber where every second log was full of knots, if might be a different story. Once you get used to using the log splitter, makes life very easy and you don't get fatigued either.

Reggie.

Green farmer wrote: »

It all depends on the timber you got. If you had a load of crappy knotty timber where every second log was full of knots, if might be a different story. Once you get used to using the log splitter, makes life very easy and you don't get fatigued either.

Only problem I have with the splitter is that you have to move it when the timber all builds up around it. You can fairly chew through a load of timber tho

Green farmer

Reggie. wrote: »

Only problem I have with the splitter is that you have to move it when the timber all builds up around it. You can fairly chew through a load of timber tho

I park a trailer alongside it, and just fire it in as splitting. If you wanted to be very lazy, have a old cheap fold up table or a stack of pallets alongside and load up with rounds of timber and just split away, saves all the bending up and down between splits. Can be fair fast alright. I usually saw a chainsaw tank full of timber then split. Just to keep variety in what your doing.

Aravo

Was at the ploughing a few years back. Log splitter on my mind. Saw a fair few there. Saw one from moyvalleyengineering.com and bought it a few days later. Very well built. The ram can be used at 3 levels so it can chop those oversized pieces. Splitting at waist level so no bending down.

sonnybill

Aravo wrote: »

Was at the ploughing a few years back. Log splitter on my mind. Saw a fair few there. Saw one from moyvalleyengineering.com and bought it a few days later. Very well built. The ram can be used at 3 levels so it can chop those oversized pieces. Splitting at waist level so no bending down.

What kind of money ? I see a lot of home made jobby ones on DD .. Hate to get one that is too low down .. Would want to see it really to be sure I suppose

the_pen_turner

there are hundreds on you tube. all kinds of styles and designs

my advise is to watch those and build one that suites your needs. it will be around the same money but have way more features and be better buit

kay 9

I think the screw type off the pto or a power pack is a rapid splitter, it's not for the fainthearted or accident prone though.
None of that waiting for a ram to return

the_pen_turner

kay 9 wrote: »

I think the screw type off the pto or a power pack is a rapid splitter, it's not for the fainthearted or accident prone though.
None of that waiting for a ram to return

very dangerous. a friend has one and has wood spin most time he uses it.


if you don't want to wait for the ram to return then build a double ended horizontal splitter. some great ones on you tube.
if I was building in the morning I would build something like the tempest. its double action box wedge .

kay 9

the_pen_turner wrote: »

very dangerous. a friend has one and has wood spin most time he uses it.


if you don't want to wait for the ram to return then build a double ended horizontal splitter. some great ones on you tube.
if I was building in the morning I would build something like the tempest. its double action box wedge .

I agree, I'd nearly go as far as to say the screw version should be banned. Lethal weapon.
The pinion type looks pretty quick. I must look up the double action you mentioned.

Centrepassage

Most block splitter rams will return faster with a heavier gauge pipe on the return value or I've seen where a lad put on T piece and had two return pipes going into tractor. Have one on old Zetor and puts it on 1000 spin pto with 1 inch return and it's very effective with tractor ticking over. It's a Malone make

the_pen_turner

Centrepassage wrote: »

Most block splitter rams will return faster with a heavier gauge pipe on the return value or I've seen where a lad put on T piece and had two return pipes going into tractor. Have one on old Zetor and puts it on 1000 spin pto with 1 inch return and it's very effective with tractor ticking over. It's a Malone make

very interesting. thanks for posting

Aravo

wrangler wrote:

I split them with the chainsaw, filled our wood shed with timber from Ophelia and would've only split 4 or 5 with the chainsaw......

I know an old timer who splits with the axe. A log splitter would fly through it in no time. He is making more money with the axe as he charges e40/hr.

the_pen_turner

Aravo wrote: »

I know an old timer who splits with the axe. A log splitter would fly through it in no time. He is making more money with the axe as he charges e40/hr.

this is one of life's great mysteries.
he does a job in 4 hours so get 160 euro , everyone is happy
if he buys a log splitter and does it in 1 hour but doubles his rate so charges 80 euro . people start complaining saying he is too dear . its crazy

the guy who betters himself is punished . the lazy guy that never improves is rewarded

Aravo

sonnybill wrote:

What kind of money ? I see a lot of home made jobby ones on DD .. Hate to get one that is too low down .. Would want to see it really to be sure I suppose

Pm sent

sonnybill

Bought Malone today in the end, will try it out this week

Reggie.

sonnybill wrote: »

Bought Malone today in the end, will try it out this week

Seen them being made in the factory. Plenty of steel in them anyways

Aravo

sonnybill wrote:

Bought Malone today in the end, will try it out this week

Best of luck with it. Well worth the investment.