For you woodsplitter guys

[3rdgen.maple]

Okay some of you might have read that I grenaded my hydraulic valve on my 3pt hitch woodsplitter. OEM one is around $180 bucks. Forget that way to much money. So I did some web searching and some phone calls. IF any of you have a low volume pump on the tractor or your splitter itself I highly recomend this valve unit. My tractor has a 7gpm pump on it and the splitter was always on the slow side. This valve is recomended for 3 to 4 gpm pumps but the phone calls confirmed that those numbers are on the conservatice side. I bought one and it ground shipped to me in a day. This vavle has a dual speed on it. After getting it all plumbed up I am amazed at how fast this thing is and how well it works. I do not recomend one guy running the handle and another loading the wood on the splitter its just to fast and things can go wrong in a hurry. The fastest speed split probably 75% of my wood today and by letting of the handle a smidge it slow is down for max force and bust through those hard knotty blocks. It normally took me 2 1/2 hours to split enough wood to fill my wood trailer and today I cut and split 3 wagon loads and it averaged out to about 1hour and 20 minutes to fill one load. 1 wagon load is about 3/4 of a cord of wood for me. Truly worth every penny I spent. Heres a link to it for anyone interested in speeding up there wood processing. http://www.cylinderservices.net/catalog.asp?prodid=601852

[Jim Schumacher]

Thanks 3rdgen! So, does that attach to my shoulder, lower back, forearm, or directly to my elbow? Yeah, I know, I'll eventually get a splitter.

[3rdgen.maple]

Heck just attach it to the syrup pan and use it for a draw off valve. Then when you wise up and get a splitter you can take it off and put it on that. lol

[holey_bucket]

3rdgen, thanks for finding that! I have the same, slow 3pt hitch splitter. I rarely use it because its so slow. I can usually split by hand at LEAST twice as fast. This is something I will definitely look into.

[smokeyamber]

Very cool, I was planning to run the splitter off my portable backhoe, this should solve the speed issue nicely ! Now I just have to build the splitter :lol:

[colt454]

for those of you that have allis chalmers in the barn try one on a splitter they have a high flow pump that will increase speed alot

[3rdgen.maple]

That valve I posted is amazingly fast. The retract time isnt affected however but dang the splitting speed is incredible. I do have to report again however to be very careful using it and skip the two man deal running it. Just to risky having a seperate set of hands on the controls. Ask my nephew and my dad when they barrowed it. Dad came darn close to losing his finger and took a nice chunk out of it but hey they just switched positions and then my nephew took a small chunk of meat out of his arm. You would think after I told them they would of listened and you would even think after one go thurt they would have learned. Be careful guys.

[Haynes Forest Products]

Hey Jim your cooking with oil now Forgetaboutit. I have a few Prince double detent valves and they are sweet but very dangerous with the lock forward and reverse. BUT fast. Now I have to ask JUST how does a valve speed up the oil flow is it like a "VACUUM BOOSTER":o:mad:....................STFUC:rolleyes:

[xyz5150]

Haynes Forest Products

Hey Jim your cooking with oil now Forgetaboutit.

Haynes you dont get much exercise writing checks.:lol: The old guys always say you get heat out of wood twice once when you cut and split, and once when you burn it.

[Haynes Forest Products]

xyz5150 When you travel 1200 miles to do the sugerin you only have so much time. So I wrote 2 checks one for oil and one for the RO. Just don't have the time. I do have a big splitter I built about 15 years ago and its down at my Buddy's tree service. Now I just pull up and get the fireplace wood already split:)

[xyz5150]

I know, just teasing, i dont know how you do it, my bush is a 1/2 mile behind my house and i make a ton of trips back and fourth.Did you break the news to your oil supplier that you bought a RO? That will save you a ton of money on fuel. OK off topic i can hear the chat room complainers already.:lol:

[Haynes Forest Products]

I like the teasing part. I have most everything I need at the sap shack. I do haul a trailer back and forth with alot on it. Its all about having good relations with alot of good folks that will help with about everything. I didn't use the splitter much so I didn't see a reason to not let others use it. I mill most of my logs. I just cut down a 28" Sugar Maple and got 3 good sticks out of it so I will be getting some maple for projects.