DIY skid steer log splitter attachment (and maybe boom lift)

[Dapph2]

Good spot, was planning on doing that so even modeled it in ha View attachment 517788

When Fizzy made the bearing mount for his log d splitter screw shaft , Initially, it was a hollow box section. that the self leveling bearing block sat on .
Due to the immense pressures generated splitting knottes wood the box section started to collapse.

Fizzy's solution was to turn up precise fitting spacers to fully fill the internal space and prevent collapse , he used a powered finger file to remove any internal burrings ( I've used ground to size square bar welded on 3/4 " round before now to clear two feet lengths of hollow box section.

Would it be better to turn up spacers so that with the base plate they fill the void , thread them ,then weld them captive . That way you'll know for sure that you won't get any collapsed box sections

 

[m_c]

If I was going for that design, and given the sizes involved, I'd probably just use solid bar instead of box section.

 

[Gareth J]

I can't decide if using the web to locate, rather than the flange, considering its a lot thinner, is a worse idea. Or whether it'll make no difference. Or whether it's a great idea, as despite it's thinner wall, because it is deeper within the I-beam, it'll resist bending more than the top/bottom plates would.

Interesting anyway!

 

[knighty]

extend the sliding points so they stick out and go under the log too

the longer the slides are the less they'll grab

and getting them past the wedge and under the log will move them past the centre point of the rotation