nice place ya got 'ere

[karl]

Been lurkin' for a while now, learned a bit, chuckled some.
everybody seems pretty harmless. 8) 8)
Hven't really had anything to say til now-
As I was loading some big ole blocks of hard maple on the splitter with my mini excavator (slipped disc) , I began to think it would be real slick to be able to bust 'em open with the excavator only.....? It has a hyd. thumb and the "breakout force" of the quicktach bucket is 8000# or more.
Anybody heard of making a wedge set up for one??
I was envisioning a big ole "lobster claw" set up, don't know how to figger if it has enough power other than trial and error though. ???  any thoughts??

[Fla._Deadheader]

Welcome to the forum, karl. Plant yerself a tree and give us some info on whatcher up to.
  Don'T believe there is ANYTHING hydraulics won't split. Yer idea sounds very reasonable. Get yer claw lined up just right and let 'er rip. 8) :D :D :D

[Gus]

Karl,
Welcome aboard! As far as your question goes I know little of hydraulics. When it breaks, I put on the exact duplicate of what broke. I know just enough that if you try to fudge, it could be awhile before you get it right again. :-/. I've been trying to get up enough sand to put another control valve on my loader tractor so I can put a grapple on it. i'm going to have to get some advise on it before I start though.
There are some real mechanical wizards here that would be up to the task I'm sure.
Let 'er fly guys. I'll monitor, maybe I'll learn something.

Gus

[ronwood]

Karl,

Welcom to the forum. Don't know much about hydraulics to give you any help.

 ;D ;D

[Fla._Deadheader]

Gus, check the brand of valve bank on yer tractor. Lots of times you can buy 1 more section and add it to what ya have. Just need longer bolts through the entire valve bank. Easiest way to do it. Easier is if the tractor loader came from the same dealer as the tractor. ;) ;)

[Frank_Pender]

Welcome a board, Karl.  It is always nice to have some new thinking around inventions. ;D  

[DanG]

Hey Karl. Welcome aboard, and Thanks. You just gave me an idea. I'M GONNA BE RICH!!  ;D ;D

[Fla._Deadheader]

Turnin the Hootie Mobile into a splitter ??? ;D :D

[ScottAR]

I don't see why it wouldn't work... They make stump shears for the larger excavators that are the same principle.  Type in stump shear in a search engine and look at what pops up.  

[Stephen_Wiley]

Hi Karl,

Welcome aboard........agree with ScottAR.

Check into stump shears.......I just threw away an advertisement on one. Will have to see if it has made it completely out of the house.

[Mark M]

I think you could take something like a horizontal 3-point hitch woodsplitter, turn it upside down, weld an adapter to the rail and then fasten it to the stick. Would really be nice if you use a rotator between the stick and the splitter, like the ones on a log grapple. Then you would just lower it over the log and pull the leaver. I don't know if I actually saw something like this or maybe it was a dream, ;) but I have thought about it before.

Welcome to the group Karl.

Mark

PS - I worked on hydraulic systems for about 12 years but still don't know nothin about nothin nohow.

[Gus]

Fla_Deadheader,
The loader is and old DuAll 250. I've thought that a guy should be able to do something like that. I'll have to look see if there are some numbers on the control bank. Then see if I can find a match somewhere.
Thanks, Gus

[karl]

Thanks for the warm welcome
and thanks for the tips- did a search on stump shears Hoo-eey!
some SERIOUS machinery! Like always-somebody already did it. got pics/ideas to take to my welding guru- see what comes of it, this may be the start of something fun. can't have too many toys in the sand box, yaknow!!!

[woodmills1]

For my big firewood blocks I was thinking about a sort of upsidedown splitter on the bottem of an I beam hung off the front of the tractor bucket.  Just set the thing down on the chunk throw the lever and split. :D

[craigc90]

Last year at the Paul Bunyan Show. There was a company set up with a log spliter that attached to a bobcat in place of a bucket and you drive up to a big chunk of fire wood and split it 4 ways in one swipe without geeting out of the seat of the machine. I will do some digging and see if I can find out a name for you.

[Duane_Moore]

 ??? any ya old farm boys know what a wooden post pounder is?? 3pt or front mt? lots of them layin in farmers yards in wyoming, ground to *DanG hard to drive post,, but what about a log splitter?? just thinkin?   Duane