Log Splitter Storage

I THINK the piston has a tendency to extend slowly, so I put something under it to prevent it from moving.

I have that splitter, and I removed the two bolts to detach the tongue to store mine, as you describe. It tucks into a corner of the garage. I found that when TSC assembled the machine, they overtorqued those two bolts attaching the tongue to the brackets welded to the tank. That bent the brackets just a bit, so that the fit was exceedingly tight. The tongue did not slip easily out of the bracket, so that I could have just stood it up on the floor separately. So I just used the tongue as a long lever to fold up the tongue against the beam, while still wedged between the two brackets, and stored it that way. I lashed the tongue to the beam, to hold it upright; there are two holes in the top flange of the beam that can be used for this, near the larger hole that is used to lock the beam down and support it in the horizontal position.found that it was easy for a bump to send the machine out of vertical, so I put a brace block gently under the engine. Finally, I linked the two towing chains together and draped them over the end of the beam, for added safety. I put a piece of polyethylene under the wedge end of the beam, so as to retard rust formation from contact with potentially damp concrete.

I just measured for you. The wheel-to-wheel width is 44", the maximum depth out is 38" to the end of the engine, and the height from floor to hitch end of the tongue is 81". If the tongue had slid out easily from the brackets, the maximum height to beam end would be 72". On looking again, it does seem that I had to remove both bolts; it doesn't seem that I could have swung the tongue to vertical, pivoting on a single bolt. the end of the tongue is squared, and the corners would have hit the top of the tank. One more comment: I see no evidence of the ram having descended from the cylinder over the winter by gravity.

Not trying to change the subject of physical size storage but on this long term storage thing do you folks shut the fuel off and run it until the carb. is empty or just shut the fuel off and leave it alone. We only run non-ethanol 93 octane with some Stabil in our TSC 22-ton splitter with the Kohler engine. Ours is stored inside of a large insulated unheated or cooled tractor shed.

I don't think my huskee 22 even has a fuel shutoff. I use stabil in all of the gas cans all year long. No problems yet.

When not being used we store our splitter in a utility room where there's a dehumidifier. It's a small splitter, will fit through a man door. Keeps it clean and dry.