Log Splitter

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

Have one here from Moyvalley Engineering in Kildare, not sure if they are still about, no auto return but I manage ok. Having a large table say 4ft wide would be would great and that the table is at waist height so not bending down. Table to be smooth with no pointy bits on the table that catch the timber under the log splitter. Much easier to move around timber on a smooth table. For me top priorities

1- well built

2- Table at waist height

3- Large table

4- Auto return

Likely to be some on display at Tullamore show this weekend.

I've a Tusk log splitter 3 point linkage log splitter, it's one that doesn't have the stand section so it can be lowered to the ground and a big heavy round of timber can be rolled onto it and then raised it up using the lift arms to waist height. The table could do with being bigger but that's only for the really big rounds of tree you'd need the bigger table.

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.

I definitely need to buy a log splitter huge number of dead ash here to be knocked. Never seen a log splitter in action. So excuse me asking dumb question. Is the table to save your back stooping? Saw the one wrangler has on Donedeal looks good and seemed widest table out there. Anyone thoughts on one below? Like fact you can use it in a shed just dump the timber in and not need a tractor on the go. Thanks

https://www.hartnett-products.ie/products/new-16-ton-electric-pto-dual-mode-log-splitter

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

Another thing that might be of interest. Pic above from Hand Eng. I find it useful on mine. 3 different heights to split. So I split the smaller stuff first and if there are some pieces too big to fit, I change the ram to a higher setting and split these last. Simple but useful.

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

I see one box section and the other is RSJ. Which would be better, my gut feeling says the RSJ.

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.…