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We just had two oaks cut down.   Now working on the firewood.   I got the hydraulic splitter out and suddenly it occured to me that it could be a powerful press.   Not a power hammer but certainly a 21 ton press!   Could be used with certain tooling as a powerful blacksmith tool?   Ehh?  I am sure I am not the first to think of it but this is the first I have heard of it.   Anyone else?   Better think safety first but the potential seems there.

 

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Greetings Borntolate,

 

Glad to see you are thinking outside the box..  Your epiphany is not the first...  Do some searching on hydraulic splitters on this forum ... Lots of input..

 

 

Forge on and make beautiful things

Jim

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As long as you understand the limitations of the logsplitter design it should be OK. Once things start to wear, if the slide is grabbing as the load builds up, more energy goes into damaging the splitter than pressing the object. Once the backbone flexes down the slide is not running on a flat surface anymore which makes it very easy to bind and stop sliding under pressure.

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Put a splitter in the high pressure line. A log splitter is now a hydraulic pump.

I have been using a log splitter I built for my father-in-law, for years.

VW engine, hi-lo pump, operates another cylinder I have made with changeable jaws. No Box!!

 

Neil

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As long as you understand the limitations of the logsplitter design it should be OK. Once things start to wear, if the slide is grabbing as the load builds up, more energy goes into damaging the splitter than pressing the object. Once the backbone flexes down the slide is not running on a flat surface anymore which makes it very easy to bind and stop sliding under pressure.

Hey thanks for the mark up.   Sounds like I need to go grease those wear points before I start this years splitting.

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