What to do? blocks too big to lift on splitter

Bruce from Can. · Sep 18, 2012

So I cut these blocks off , but I can't lift them on to my new splitter. Back I go to my old splitter again.So much for moderen tech. eh !! And because this is a tractor site, first prize goes to who can correcttly ideentify this tractor. Bruce

60 acre hillside · Sep 18, 2012

Case VA

Bruce from Can. · Sep 18, 2012

Hillside 60 You can move to the head of the class

OLarry from MD · Sep 18, 2012

What i do is lower the 3point till the beam is on the ground then make a ramp of split wood twice as long as high.Then just roll those pieces up there.

Zachary Hoyt · Sep 18, 2012

That nice straight grained wood (looks like red maple from here) is so nice to split that I bet you can actually do it faster with the ax, since the splitter cycle time is usually pretty slow.
Zach

Winchester1 · Sep 18, 2012

It is still hard work but I find wood splits easier when frozen.

thurlow · Sep 18, 2012

Add a second spool to your valve......

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Anonymous-0 · Sep 18, 2012

He may be able to do it faster by hand, but the log splitter does not get tired.

oldtanker · Sep 18, 2012

I do it the lazy mans way. Call the LP guy! No ashes to clean up, wood to haul, stoves to stoke, wood to cut, split and stack.....no splitters to maintain or fill with gas, oil or hyd fluid. Now saws to fill with gas and oil. Tips it grease, chains to sharpen/have sharpened..........yea I like the lazy mans way!

Rick

Rob in Ore · Sep 18, 2012

I had some oak that I could barely roll onto the splitter but it didn't have the power to do the job. I ended up using the saw to cut everything down to size. I should have left the wood on the ground and burned the saw-gas in the stove for heat. Some pieces in the wood pile had a saw cut on all six sides.
Live and learn I guess...

Traditional Farmer · Sep 18, 2012

Weld up a table on the side of the splitter and take the frontend loader and sit them on it.

greenmech · Sep 18, 2012

I thought it was a Case VAC. Ron MN.

gtractorfan · Sep 18, 2012

Sometimes I use ramp boards and "lasso" big pieces, use a rope and pulley to pull them onto the trailer with the garden tractor, load it with as many of them as there's room for,then pull the splitter to the back of the trailer. It serves as a platform at the same level as the splitter making it easy to roll them on. I've done some really big ones.

Dutchman · Sep 18, 2012

Looks like a VAI... solid front axle .. my guess

mark

retired farmer · Sep 18, 2012

I would rather freeze to death than burn wood. Need to rig up a little crane for your splitter.

Bryan inIowa · Sep 18, 2012

I simply pull a lever that tilts My splitter beam from horizontal to verticle and roll the log over to it . Dad built a crane on his splitter but lot slower .

acdwd45man · Sep 18, 2012

I put a electric winch on my splitter, made a boom that swings 180, use a ice tong hooked to the winch cable and tong points around the chunck of wood.

Popcorn · Sep 18, 2012

Back into the large piece with a 3 point mounted ACORN splitter.

Ultradog MN · Sep 18, 2012

I was never that much into big blocks.
A 350 GM or 351 windsor was more my style.

fixerupper · Sep 18, 2012

Throw them in the burn pile and find some smaller logs to cut. I'm not kidding. I was there and did that too many times. You look at those big behemoths and you think of all the heat you can get from them, and you will get a lot of heat out of them once you get them knocked down, but sit down and figure out what it's costing you to tackle them.

I used to dangle them from the loader bucket with a chain to split them till I finally figured out it was costing me just as much to try to outwit those big things as I would have spent for propane heat. I had two tractors running, burning fuel, one on the splitter and one with the loader. Then I figured I'd save money and downsize them with a maul and wedge but shoulder surgery put an end to that. $8000.00 went out of my pocket for that one. Now I just turn up the thermostat and the gas heater kicks in. I started splitting wood when I was just a little taller than the axe. It's good excersize, it keeps you warm on a cold winter day, but someday the body will talk back to you if you get too carried away. Jim

36 Coupe · Sep 19, 2012

A splitter with a tilting beam is the way to go.Running a tractor to split wood doesent make sense with gas at 4.10, off road diesel is 3.70.A splitting maul can wreck your shoulder.You can burst blood vessels in your eyes with a maul.Having the white of your eye turn blood red aint good.Ive rented or borrowed a splitter when needed.Usually avoid the big wood or roll it onto the bandsaw mill.Most people split wood too much.Split wood burns faster.

Bryan inIowa · Sep 19, 2012

Now,if you want to split it the fun way !!! Drill a deep 1/2 hole , fill with Pyodex or FFG , stick fuse in it ,pound furniture dowel plug in, light it off run like heck ! Used to do some big one like that once in awhile. Fractures them open nicely .

36 Coupe · Sep 20, 2012

Some of us still take pride in doing for our selves to get by.

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