Thought of this a while back and finally got a chance to try it. Used my Swisher 28 ton splitter to break the beads on 4 tires. Set the tire on the beam and used the wedge to push a block of hardwood into the tire. Put a 1/4" piece of diamond plate steel between the block and the wedge so the wedge wouldn't split the block. Worked like a charm. Tires popped off the rims with no sweat.
Log Splitter/Bead Breaker
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Makes sense... I've heard of splitters being used in all sorts of situations where a large amount of force needs to be applied, but great precision isn't required... I recently did sort of a recursive repair where my log ejector had gotten bent (because of some abuse I did) and I used the splitter to straighten it back out...
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I read the title quick and thought it said Log Splitter/Bread Baker. Now that would be something.
yes we are. can you imagine finishing your splitting and then enjoying fresh baked bread. lets build it, we'll make millions.
I use my splitter to bend iron. I just let the wedge push the iron into a block of wood and stop when I have the angle I need.
Good idea! I wish I would have thought of this instead of jumping up and down on the tractor tires to break the bead so I could tube them! And as a side note, I once used my splitter to open a can of beer! Yeah, I shook the hell out of it first, and it exploded in a grand way, but that was the point!
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Maybe an exhaust system mod to warm sandwiches/hot dogs and the like?
I'll have to check out how much room I have once this snow/wind storm passes. I'm the better part of afraid to go near the woods with 50MPH winds and dead limbs cracking like popcorn!
ATB,
Mike
I'll have to check out how much room I have once this snow/wind storm passes. I'm the better part of afraid to go near the woods with 50MPH winds and dead limbs cracking like popcorn!
ATB,
Mike
Actually they make (or used to anyhow) "ovens" that would fit on the exhaust pipe of an engine in order to heat food... Or something I have done myself back when I used to work as a deckhand on the Miss. Riv. is to take a can of some sort of "heat and eat" food like Spaghetti or equivalent, and poke a small hole in one end, then stick it on the exhaust manifold of one of the engines - do this at the beginning of the shift and it would be ready to eat for lunch - nothing like diesel flavored Spaghettio's .... 
Gooserider
Gooserider
Very true. I tried to take tires off of rims with a couple of tire irons. Soon gave up and called one of my son's. He good at that. Had the tires off rims (Ford Explorer) in minutes. Next day he remounted them on my Dodge Van rims, again, in minutes. Did not balance them. They seem to ride ok. If they do act up, a place here will balance them on the vehicle for $5 each.cozy heat said:
I keep thinking, in the back of my mind, how to rig a splitter to do the pushing to press apple cider-- the concept is easy, but figuring out how to arrange the pressing parts to catch the cider is what's deterred me so far-- i.e. without getting hydraulic fluid in the cider, or having the cider spill everywhere.
pybyr said:
Thinking about it, I would say that you'd need a splitter that could do vertical mode, and probably a different "wedge" assembly - something that had a very narrow "blade" that came out from the rail a good ways, and would fit into a crusher tub through a slot in the side, then open out into the crushing paddle... The crusher tub would have lots of holes or slots in its side, and a pan on the bottom to catch the cider as it squeezed out... Put the ground apples in some kind of liner bag to keep the pulp from squeezing out into the juice, etc...
It might take a few iterations, but it would seem doable without that much trouble. Could even then be used on other fruits like grapes and the like to do wines and other such consumables...
Gooserider
How does this work on ATV tires??? Personally Ive been trying to come up with a way to use the splitter as an apple cider press. Ohhhh the possibilities.
Gooserider said:Actually they make (or used to anyhow) "ovens" that would fit on the exhaust pipe of an engine in order to heat food... Or something I have done myself back when I used to work as a deckhand on the Miss. Riv. is to take a can of some sort of "heat and eat" food like Spaghetti or equivalent, and poke a small hole in one end, then stick it on the exhaust manifold of one of the engines - do this at the beginning of the shift and it would be ready to eat for lunch - nothing like diesel flavored Spaghettio's ....
Gooserider
Here you go . . . designed for a snowmobile exhaust . . . but I bet we could modify it for a splitter.
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I used to use the splitter to break the beads on tires. Well, I did until one day the block of wood slipped and I cut a gash in a wheel. :red:
What you need is a old car bumper jack. You put the tire and jack under something heavy and jack it up, and break the bead. I use the trailer hitch on my truck, and changed a lot of tires.
pybyr said:
If you ever figure this one out, let me know. I could use the contraption to press grapes durring wine making.
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