Hello all.
I thought I wood post some pics of our log lift conversion to the 22 Ton splitter my brother and I bought 10 years ago.
My brother had an oak tree that was dead and the power company wanted it down before it caused problems with their newly installed lines and power poles, the secondary to my brothers house was also not up to code standards, being another reason for the new configuration, any way this tree was no lie 4' at the base. (not the wood pictured her this was some cherry I split today)
I wondered how we were going to get that thing bucked and split. I went on a you-tube to hunt for the answer. Yep, log lift splitters. I sent the link to a local fellow that does fabricating and this is what we came up with.
As in the past we struggled with large lumps of wood to split my first answer was to take an 8' ladder and craddle it into th I beam of the splitter and roll the lump up the rungs, worked pretty good but still a pain in the back.
We had no tractor or equipment to do the lifting so this is now our pride and joy. $600.00 bucks later (and worth every penny)... here it is.
The back is a terrible thing to waste.
Bubba
I thought I wood post some pics of our log lift conversion to the 22 Ton splitter my brother and I bought 10 years ago.
My brother had an oak tree that was dead and the power company wanted it down before it caused problems with their newly installed lines and power poles, the secondary to my brothers house was also not up to code standards, being another reason for the new configuration, any way this tree was no lie 4' at the base. (not the wood pictured her this was some cherry I split today)
I wondered how we were going to get that thing bucked and split. I went on a you-tube to hunt for the answer. Yep, log lift splitters. I sent the link to a local fellow that does fabricating and this is what we came up with.
As in the past we struggled with large lumps of wood to split my first answer was to take an 8' ladder and craddle it into th I beam of the splitter and roll the lump up the rungs, worked pretty good but still a pain in the back.
We had no tractor or equipment to do the lifting so this is now our pride and joy. $600.00 bucks later (and worth every penny)... here it is.
The back is a terrible thing to waste.
Bubba