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Breaking a wood splitter revisited BillyNY

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used red MN

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Is this what the doo-dad ..call it push block..you broke looked like from the back? I will have to admit that looks like cast. I think it is odd they chose that material to weld that to the mild steel beam. This is a photo from the Case pics post.
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I was more questioning the design choice and robustness of the dissimilar metal weld at that high stress location. There are probably plenty of them out there holding up just fine. The observation by Billy was that the weld was made by the MIG process ..wire weld.. and looked to have poor penetration or bond. I am linking the post I am referring to. In the third photo down you can see the break on the edge of it. If the wood debris was cleaned off better in that photo we could probably see the weld failure better.
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used red mn,

Look to me that the wedge is not perpendicular to the beam. Propably why it failed as it got pushed to one side. Mig welding is used to weld dozer frames together, the welding process does not appear to me to be the issue,

Guido.
 

That end piece looks to be plasma cut out of plate.
If there are no other iron castings on the machine, I doubt there are any.

If the mill surfaces of the area of weld are not ground off, weld failure can be expected.
 
I saw the picture earlier and it was hard to tell much of anything it was so blurry. I would doubt it was cast though cast will take pressure as well as steel will. Looking at this picture it does not look like it was the same splitter.
Why does everybody split all their wood into kindling like that? Just curious as I only split it down to about what will go in the door.
 
Double 07, I really don’t think that push stop is
plasma cut mild steel. I will link the original post from
the Case pic thread it is clearer there. Also, if you
look at Billys pictures in his original post I have linked
in my other reply I think you will agree it is not a mild
steel piece, look at the rounded corners. I originally
thought it may be forged steel, but changed my mind.
Billy called it cast steel, from this end of the internet I obviously can’t tell exactly what it is made from. If I had it in hand I could do a grind spark test and figure it out. Thanks for looking.
Post from Case picture thread
 
When I saw the one that Barnyard posted it looked very much similar to the one Billy NY posted that he had broke. I did not say they were the exact same one as in owned by the same person. I still think they are similar design or even manufactured by the same company.
 

I think your right in that it is cast.
I zoomed in on Billy's original pic and what I thought were four diagonal slots in it are actually raised.
And they look too uniform to be welds.
But it does appear the weld was good on the stop and ripped away from the sheet/plate fabricated "beam".

Pretty sure the Huskee is made by Speeco.

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I built this wood splitter in 1985 it's twelve feet long I can unbolt the wedge and move it out to the end to split fence post I've had several engines on it over the years now I have a tractor with hydraulics capable of running it nothing pretty but never let's me down I just recently added a homemade log lift assist
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That stop at the end of the beam is indeed cast steel, very weldable. Joining vast steel to other types is standard practice for many types of fabrication, in heavy sections mostly via submerged arc.
 
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