"See-Saw" Wood Splitter

"See-Saw" Wood Splitter WOODLOT EQUIPMENT Wood Splitters 27-5-18 "My father Fred MacKay built this one-of-a-kind wood splitter. It's built out of a pair of one-way, 4-in. dia. cylinders that mount on separate steel I-beams which are bolted together. The cylinders are plumbed together so that as one cylinder is extended, the other retracts," says William MacKay of Pictou, Nova Scotia. . Hydraulic power is supplied by a tractor. "We built it this way because all we had on hand were one-way cylinders and we didn't want to spend the money for a new "My father Fred MacKay built this one-of-a-kind wood splitter. It's built out of a pair of one-way, 4-in. dia. cylinders that mount on separate steel I-beams which are bolted together. The cylinders are plumbed together so that as one cylinder is extended, the other retracts," says William MacKay of Pictou, Nova Scotia. . Hydraulic power is supplied by a tractor. "We built it this way because all we had on hand were one-way cylinders and we didn't want to spend the money for a new two-way cylinder," says William. "The cylinders came off an old front-end loader. We can operate both splitters at the same time. While one side is splitting we're loading wood into the other side." The MacKays used part of the 1-in. thick steel blade off a road grader to make the wedges on both splitters. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, William MacKay, RR 1, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada B0K 1H0 (ph 902 485-4717).

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