Pneumatic Log Splitter... Need your guys help!

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Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:29 pm

i dont now if you guys rember this but rember that guessing thread about the can crusher will he could use that same design and put a wedge at the bottom instead of the hole bam log splitter and if you have consistant presure it would woop that hydralic one

hear http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/its-not ... 19187.html
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Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:42 pm

You can split wood faster with a splitting maul.
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Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:32 pm

yeah but thats no fun :D
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Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:19 am

Oh My :shock: A pneumatic Log Splitter? I'm scared ... very, very scared.

I've dealt with Log Splitters for years. Even slow Hydraulic ones will send the occasional hunk of shrapnel (5 to 10 pound hunk of wood) a long ways ... 10 to 20 feet easily.

I can't visualize any system that would work at the speed you seem to want, and not cause extreme forces on the machine itself.

I hate to be a pessimist, but I see a lot of unwanted carnage and destruction.
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Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:25 am

IMagius wrote:I see a lot of unwanted carnage and destruction.
Interesting concept, it's new to me :roll: :D
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Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:55 am

I'm more familiar with motorized hydraulic log splinters, and the problem I see is pressure. hydraulics obtain ridiculous pressures thousands of psi it might take some time but it's enough pressure for nearly any job. a basic motorized log splitter probably produces up to 1500psi, how can you that with pneumatics, your piston diameters with have to be huge and you'll waste tons of air,

I love pneumatics but you ought to go with hydralics, why don't you modify a cheap pressure washer it gives tons of pressure
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