Cub Converted To Mobile Wood Splitter

Cub Converted To Mobile Wood Splitter TRACTORS Conversions Clifford Smith turned one of his Farmall Cub tractors into a motorized wood splitter that he can drive into the woods to cut firewood for his shop     Smith uses many of the tractors in his 18-tractor collection for gardening landscaping and other work around his Villa Ridge Mo property Back in the 1980’s he ran a wood splitter off a Farmall’s pto     A couple of years ago he had the “wild idea” to mount a splitter on the side of a Cub He purchased a 22-ton splitter and made room for it on the Cub by replacing the front with a low-boy axle and changing the rear tractor’s tires He discovered that the bolt pattern on 15-in Dodge 1/2-ton pickup tires is the same as the Cub’s     “The smaller tires lower the tractor and the rear tire is out of the way of the splitter ” he explains “The log splitter pump is mounted on top of the transmission and runs off the pto ”     Smith notes that the Cub has a fast pto without gearing it up much which is important for running the splitter     The splitter is stored horizontally when he drives the Cub Once he’s on-site he upends the splitter and can move wood onto it without having to lift     With an 8 000-lb winch on the back of the splitter Smith can pull logs out of the woods and has the option to load them on a trailer behind the Cub if he wants to cut boards on his sawmill     “This outfit works great ” Smith says with the small tractor able to drive through narrow places     Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Clifford Smith 420 Honey Valley Dr Villa Ridge Mo 63089 ph 636 451-2538; cliffbevsmith@charter net

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