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Log Splitter

Sami23

Thinking of buying a Log Splitter as lots of timber to cut and split an with so many trees dying it looks like there will be plenty of work for it going forward.

So what's the best makes out there and best value ones.

Is the auto-return a must have on them or not - other than that I don't see much difference in them.

Been looking at donedeal and see loads selling Malone, Kentec, MB, Tusk, Mann etc.

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annubis

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122534083#Comment_122534083

ya same as that, I keep turning it block around till I find a spot that splits, just wondered if it was the norm. could do with table being a bit bigger but its deffo a handy tool

mr.stonewall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122534070#Comment_122534070

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

annubis

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122504876#Comment_122504876

I have a kentec as well, I find it fine but it sticks in big old knotty blocks sometimes initially until you can get some of it going, does that ever happen to you? I have an old zetor and I found it wouldnt really work it at all so I have to run it on newish tractor with good hydraulics so just wondering if maybe something not quite right

Gman1987

I got the tusk one with the stand last year for €1150 delivered. It’s galvanised and I got him to put the auto return on it. Find the auto return great, you can be gone getting the next piece and it’s always ready to go. I have split 8 13x8 trailer load so far with it. Stand is handy too as I have actually never put it onto the tractor, it’s left at the shed and I can just plug the pipes into the tractor.

patsy_mccabe

Cutting firewood is all about keeping the handling to a minimum. I slide the heavy rings of timber from the side of the trailer directly on to the splitter. My timber shed has a low roof so can't get the tractor in there. If I had a proper setup I'd fill an IBC cage and lift it with the forklift arms. For the moment I use these plastic tubs to move the logs into the shed. Simple but effective.

9935452

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122515284#Comment_122515284

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

Aravo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122515059#Comment_122515059

Any chance of a few photographs, would love to see this mighty contraption.

9935452

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058362983/log-splitter

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.

Sami23

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122505241#Comment_122505241

No they are 1350 direct also as priced them about 2 weeks ago

PoorFarmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122504673#Comment_122504673

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

mr.stonewall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122504673#Comment_122504673

Paid €800 for a new kentec with a longer ram and stroke in 2011.

amacca

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.…

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122504027#Comment_122504027

The mann is 1150 vat incl

Kentec is 1350 vat incl

Aravo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122502177#Comment_122502177

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

Sami23

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122502177#Comment_122502177

Hard to know both look good quality.

The wedge is a better shape on the Kentec but the table is bigger on the Mann.

How much is the Mann ?

Sami23

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122503385#Comment_122503385

Or another option would be to buy the splitter between 2 or 3 neighbours to soften the money blow.

With amount of work you'd have for it very doubtful any of ye would want it the same day.

Mad about baa baas

Unless you have a lot of work for a log splitter i would not buy.. i rent one that you pull behind the jeep from the local hire company..it runs on petrol..it has plenty power.. if you have rings lined up you would get through a savage amount of work in a weekend..i cant remember exactly but i think it was 120 for the weekend last time i got it out....just an alternative option..

amacca

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

893bet

As someone who suffered a fractured skull due to exploding ash from a splitter.

Dangerous machines.

mr.stonewall

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

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122466591#Comment_122466591

that’s the crowd that were on tg4 contractors, the show featured them making and demoing it, looked well thought out and made

Aravo

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.

divillybit

This is the same as the one I bought, very manageable for putting on or taking it off the tractor. I find the size of the table is fine. Twas the cheapest one too that I priced, €800 I gave for it and will last a lifetime. It's great to be able to lower it to the ground to roll big rounds onto it and lift it up to waist height. Have to knock off the constant pumping when lifting the arms though. Hydraulic top link helps alot too as with a big round you can angle back the splitter towards the tractor so the rounds wouldn't be inclined to fall towards the operator. I had considered an electric one from harnetts but a tractor mounted one is more versatile in that you're not limited by having to be near a power supply required for the electric ones.

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122481730#Comment_122481730

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

baxterooneydoody

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122481555#Comment_122481555

Hartnett do a good looking 12 ton electric splitter, I'm going in to have a look at it next week to see what it's like. I had an hydraulic one but sold it lately as the tractor is loud and a pain to be trying to put it on and take off so I'll go with an electric and see what it's like at least there won't be a tractor running and I can split away inside with more room

Rusheseverywhere

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

amacca

Are the electric ones any good? Or to be avoided?

NNo problem getting a tractor here but Just wondering if there are any advantages to the electric ones....

patsy_mccabe

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.

divillybit

No I'd have no concerns that way. Log splitter have their limitations too in that if you have a gnarly knotty bit then it's best not to try split that as the wedge will go into it alright and the bit of timber won't split so the wedge gets stuck in the timber. Needed the sledge to beat off a knotty bit of timber that the wedge embedded itself in before. So the operator must be aware of the bits of timber that will difficult to split so best to leave them aside. Any bits like that I put on my log holder and secure it and cut it again with the chainsaw..

Sami23

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122474277#Comment_122474277

Any issue or concerns the fact the wedge is welded on as opposed to bolted onto the ram on the Tusk and Malone ?