Firewood Length

[maplecrest]

measure your grates and cut the same as the grates in the arch

[3rdgen.maple]

Ambergold I went with the 3 point splitter on the tractor. Quick disconnect right to the hydraulics on the tractor. Paid 600 bucks brand new from TSC. You can set them at the working height that is comfortable for you. Mine also tilts so you can run it verticle or horizontal. I can mount the splitter and wood wagon on the tractor at the same time, I kinda jacknife the wagon and split the wood and throw it right in the wagon where the tree falls. Gotta check but I'm pretty sure it is a 25 ton splitter and after five years of splitting blocks I have yet to have anything stop it. Some Knarly hardwood blocks that takes 2 people to pick up has not even stopped it, you hear the tractor grunt sometimes but that is it. Also I gotta imagine HP of the tractor is a factor also. My advice for what it is worth is save the money your gonna spend on a regular wood splitter and use it for the tractor and get a 3 point for alot less.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

3rdgen,

What size tractor are you running the splitter with and what kind of flow rates does the hydraulics have??

[Dill]

The hydro flow rate is much more important than the straight HP of the tractor. I run my 3pth splitter behind my 606 which has a 22gpm pump. But I tried it on my buddys 504 with a 8 gpm pump I think I could have done it faster by hand. I perfer a horizontal 3pth splitter I can run it at waist height for most stuff and then drop it down to the ground and roll on the big stuff. My father only uses a vertical 3pth setup. He sits on a buckets and works at ground level, if the piece is really huge he'll back the tractor under it.

[Amber Gold]

Those are some good points.

I'd like to get a splitter now so I can split all of next years wood with it. Can't swing a tractor w/ splitter now, but figure I should be able to sell the splitter for what I paid for it when I do get a tractor.

For now I split by hand until I find something.

[Russell Lampron]

Dill my father tried to run a splitter with the hydraulics on his 504. Not very much power and very slow.

[DS Maple]

You can buy or build a tractor mounted splitter to run off the PTO. That way you don't even have to worry about the tractor's hyraulic pump abilities.