Awesome great video by the way keep up the good work I love that they don't drag on about one certain thing you cover the important thing and give great tip THANKS AGAIN BUD!!
Love it! Got the original, saw how small it was, returned it for the XL. It splits my ~7x16" firewood into smallwood and kindling in a flash. ru-vid.comUgkxSRemO77LrM90rx_It_Wh6ZnKAS0H2A8t Good for debarking too. It's so fun I now have too much kindling and have to fight the urge to split the big pieces. I usually split dried cedar, but I've split dried oak too. The edge on mine has stayed razor sharp. I mounted it on a couple pieces of pressure treated 4x4 to hold it steady and quiet the ringing. Several reviews and videos show people having trouble keeping the wood straight. How do I put this gently?... You have to be smarter than the wood. Don't try to split knots, or badly curved grain. And hold the wood (with leather gloves) and tap it once to set it on the blade before giving it a good whack. And you have to know how to swing a hammer. If you don't know what wood grain or knots are, and you can't swing a hammer without hitting yourself or things around you, I suggest buying firewood and kindling pre-split. But if you're smarter than a log, this beautiful tool will make splitting firewood into kindling safer, faster and way more funner! I highly recommend it, and get the XL.
For the people that keep asking, he showed the bolt size for motor bolts. They were 5/16-24 fine thread x 1”. The motor manufacturer will list the bolt threads required, usually fine thread.
A bit of FYI for future projects. The bolt patterns on the pump and the engine are created in a radius from the center point of the shaft, think of the bolt pattern as a circle not a square. To lay out the holes, start with a perfectly square metal bracket and draw an X from corner to corner on a diagonal. Then set a compass at the proper radius and mark with a fine point marker or a scribe and simply draw a circle from the center of the X, the intersecting lines are where you drill. The Radius of the mount holes will always be listed on the manufactures data, they offer this so the end user knows the exact radius of their mount holes.
When using spring washers on nuts and bolts it's advised that flat washers are not used as the spring washer is meant to bite into the mounting plate for it to work. This is why spring washers are not advised for use on aluminium or other soft metals.
I enjoyed the videos... I'm wondering if you or anyone might help me... I enjoy tinkering and creating things.. I'm wanting to purchase a tractor backhoe attachment and mount it to the back of a jeep/truck.... I'm wanting to use a small engine with a hydraulic pump attached to run the hydraulics on the backhoe attachment... But i'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to hydraulics.... Would you happen to know what type engine and hydraulic pump that it would take to run a backhoe attachment? Anyone with any info will be appreciated... Thanks
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The coupling is called a lovely connector if anyone wants to know use loctite blue on the bolts to motor and lovely connection set screws lest you have a bad day
This may be stated somewhere, I haven’t dug around these comments yet but I’m trying to build one as well. And of course I want the faster cycle time. Same size cylinder. But look at getting a 22 gpm pump but curious if my 212cc motor will turn it or if I have to get a bigger one
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How are the couplers attached to each drive shaft? I have an existing one with the same coupler and I’m replacing the engine. I’ve removed the set screws, but it seems stuck on the drive shaft. Maybe just needs a hammer and some heat?
A shot of PB Blaster/penetrating oil might work if the shaft is rusty. If someone put Loctite on the couplers, heat might be your only option. I might use some wood blocks to soften the hammers blows if necessary.
I was thinking to go with either the Predator 212cc or 224cc engine (its a huskee 22ton) but I wanted to go up from the stock 11gpm pump to a 16gpm pump.. problem is that the 16gpm pump kits are all for larger engines, bolt pattern, shaft size etc.. while there's a ready-made kit with the 13gpm pump but i was really wanting to use that 16gpm.. I really don't think the time savings with just the 13 would be noticeable and the stock pump is still functioning i just need a new engine. If someone could piece together a kit and make a video on this id love to see it
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Hola quiero aser un partidor de leña puedes ayudarme tengo el motor petrolero que puedo utilizar para este proyecto saludos desde chile el motor dise 10 hp nose que significa es un marca toyoma lo uso en mi aserradero portatil
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depends,if you got time then why not.but for working people its big no no ,this mount cos 30 bucks,which is about 1,5 hour for average joe.i think u spend more time than that.and u dont need to be offended on people whos just sharing 2nd opinion.
I noticed that you don't have any of your own uploads on your channel. Maybe instead of trolling my channel you should start making some of your own videos. Your first video could be all about how you bought your own $30 hydraulic pump to engine mount instead of making your own but, I'm very sure that you don't have the balls to do so.
