Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Equipment => Topic started by: Farmer85 on December 31, 2014, 08:45:06 AM
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Hey all. I built a inverted log splitter for my skidsteer and made it to where I can pull a pin and switch out wedges from a single to 4-way. Sorry no pics. Anyway the wedge I built was 3/4 plate 8" deep and 10" tall. It has 2 wings about 5" up that are also 3/4 plate. I have looked at dozens online for sale and this seems to be a pretty common way to do it. Anyway within an hour I had a knotted up piece of white oak that bent the upright wedge. One of the wings caught a knot and twisted the whole plate to the right. I did not have anything else on upright as far as a wedge to beef it up. My question is has anybody built a indestructible 4 way? How did you do it? I split 95% hardwood. Oak,hickory,walnut,etc. thanks
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I already have the inverted splitter, what you just described is common when you start getting into multiple split wedges. I had a Woodeze Firewood Processor years ago when I was in the campfire wood business, really easy to fubar something pretty bad when trying to split knotty stuff and it had a 4 way wedge, or you got to take a 8lb maul and beat the piece out backwards before it screwed something up. In retrospect I should have kept the processor even though cutting just for the house would have barely kept it limbered up.
I have the single wedge on mine but built out of 1" plate, I plan on redoing it one of these days and going to a 4 way but instead of changing the wedge I was going to make a 30" long wedge and just raise it all the way in the frame until the "wings" rested against the splitter frame so it can be used as a single.
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I make all my wedges 4way single ect all out 1" and so far never had an issue