Making a HUGE log splitter. Part 2 

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I just came here via a shout-out from Wes (Watch Wes Work). I've already watched 3 of your videos. You run a fun to watch channel.

What a graet channel! Has my subscription for sure! Who else is here from Watch Wes Work?

Nice shout out for the channel from WATCH WES WORK

Looking good mate. i enjoy watching your vids on a Sunday night here in New Zealand

“Only so much tidying up you can do before you start losing the will to live” … me 100% LOL

Thanks for working on your audio. So nice not to be listening to a softly spoken genius one minute and grinder at ear wax melting decibels the next. Top work. Keep it up 👍

"There's only so much tidying up you can do before you start losing the will to live" Hahaha, so true.

Watch Wes Work sent me. I’m always amazed at the quality and quantity of work done on these channels. Thanks for the content.

“Future me” gets a hard life here too. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Your log splitter is looking great so far. "Big Log splitter" is a bit of an understatement, but it will be sturdy. Regards, Dave (Canada)

Handy garden size log splitter for my shed , just what I need . First job is to find a 2 ton RSJ

Quality as ever, see you got a 'Plug' from 'Watch Wes Work' over in the USA. Excellent stuff.

Good job Oliver … it’s coming along mate 😎👍🍺🍺

Looking really good, and strong. I think it could split trees as well as logs. The new plasma cutter done a good job with the parts, looking forward to part 3 whenever that may be. Keep safe and well mate 👍

Great video and a very well built splitter the only suggestion I would make after experience with various splitters would be to consider fitting telehandler nylon wear pad material as top and bottom parts of your sandwich for the sliding head otherwise metal to metal it’ll have a tendency to chew itself up pretty quickly and after a couple of passes any grease you put on to help gets wiped away by wood debris

I name this log splitter 'Titanic'. God bless her all that split with her! Seriously though, that's a great project to hone your cad skills. Having extensively used a much smaller twin ram log splitter on a 6610, it's slow, and the oil gets pretty hot! I personally use a 34t Chinese built kinetic log splitter and have not found anything it wont split, even gnarly gum! 2-3 second cycle and tows behind the lawnmower. Take care. The bigger the splitter, the bigger the bang when a gnarly log eventually succumbs to such forces. Stand clear!

might i suggest that next time you make slots for the tabs, design the slots in a dog bone style, slightly wider on the short sides and the tabs will fit in with minimal prep and as a bonus provide full weld penetration where the gaps are.

Regarding your triple welds - My pal used to say 'Not many things have failed due to being over engineered'.

I reckon you'll split cars in half with that beast of a splitter 😜😜

Love this channel 🙏👍💪❤️ Your log splitter, is exactly what Milwaukee tools, says all the time. " Nothing but heavy duty"

I’m having a good day watching your videos. Watch Wes Work suggested you and I am glad he did

Hello Oliver from the USA.....she is going to be a monster!!!! Excellent work. New cut out machine doing its job too!

Wes from Watch Wes Work recommended your channel. Awesome work, very goood videos.

Great workmanship snowball 👍

Things are looking good, love that awesome new plasma. Laughed out loud at the "You can only do so much tidying up before you lose the will to live" Know the feeling LOL

can't wait to see this bad boy in action!👍👍

Great build Oliver it sure isn't going to fall apart. As they say on RU-vid nothing too strong ever fell apart.

Great Job! I had no doubt that you were going to make it happen! ✌🤠🇺🇸

Great beefy build on the log splitter 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇨🇦

4.1K+ 👍's up SBE thank you for sharing 😊

That is one industrial log splitter. More of a tree splitter. Once you get that new cutter dialed in it will save a lot of time and be a great asset. Nice to see your channel getting a shout out from Watch Wes Work. Avid viewer apparently. And another of my favourite channels that I have watched for years. You must be doing something right. Good varied content on interesting projects. Very enjoyable.

Built to last! Thanks for the look, good work!

That's so well made I really love it. This gets a big like from me 👍

Another good vid, rapt from beginning to end and none of the usual "waffle". Keep it up Ollie won't be long before you are up there.

I like all your videos

There might be a few more subs coming. Just watched watch wes work and he sending out some love to your channel. Keep ip the intersting work. Cheers.

Farm equipment made to engineering spec always sign of a perfectionist . Going to be a few things that will need addressing i think Oliver but your the man to sort it ,

You are building it Texas style,BIG.Way to go!

Wow! What size logs do you plan on splitting? You'd need a crane to lift the whole kit. Brilliant workmanship. Can't wait to see it split the size logs I'm imagining. Cheers...

That’s not a log splitter it’s a tree splitter 😂. Great fabrication, I’d be well proud to have made that 👍

The logs won't stand a chance, Can't wait to see it in action.

WWW sent me over here, so glad Wes did, awesome channel, your really over engineer your fab and that keeps everyone safe. Camarata did a short bit and the end of his video on finishing his roof. Some folks commented about how strong his welds were. To demo that, he ran a 1” bead then proceeded to lift massive ‘H’ and ‘I’ beams then picked up the front of his truck. Job done. Kindest regards from Bonnie Scotland. Joe.

Dang this log splitter will split anything you can get on the table.

Certainly take the skin off a rice pudding with that beast. Nice job so far. You will need wear plates. The friction on such a beam is huge in use. I have found that with my vertical post knocker repurposed from an old splitter. Just gravity drop of a concrete lump but it tended to jam on the winch up. Its all trial and error but good fun.

Enjoyed this video very much. Thank you

Can’t wait for part 3

Blimey, you'll be splitting giant redwoods with that thing. Its starting to look really good. That new plasma table seems to be coming along well, just being able to drop dxf's into the software and then move them around must be a real boon. Same with a lot of these things now, it is the software that kills them or makes them. I'm always amazed by how much stuff there is around with rubbish software.

You do awesome work and videos.

Awesome work as always 👍

Well I spoke too soon ,I see you DID make the slide longer to the rear . Good Engineering 👍

That new cnc machine has opened up a whole world of new concepts designs and the means to achieve it all! Nice one.

Never engineer something when you can over-engineer it. Love it! :)

That’s some splitter, u could split granite ! A handy piece of machinery to have, great job

I think that your Deere is going to be revving well to pump enough oil to cycle that ram at working rate! PTO pump and tank was my answer to this problem when I built my big splitter years ago, tractor sits at low revs and ram still cycles fast. Also don't skimp on table size like I did...... HTH Looking forward to seeing next instalment. 👍

I made one log spliter 5 years ago. I used plain bearings at connecting points in the cylinder and rod, to give better tolerances and so improving the life spam of seals in the cylinder. You are making a Beast.

When in doubt, go bigger … and bigger (LOL) … great start and clean work … love the channel and can’t wait to see it operate

We used to have a 16T vertical splitter, which we used on the back of an old Fendt Favorit 611. It could split anything provided you had the strength to lift the wood. We eventually upgraded to a Komatsu mini digger with thumb to load it... Greatly enjoying your videos, thank you.

Been following you for quite a bit and just saw Watch Wes Work give you a shout out! Keep up the great content.

MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼…………………………………………………………………..Congratulations, you do good work. I wouldn’t watch if you didn’t, LOL! Keep it up.

That things going to be a real animal . Nice job, can't wait to see it working . What tractor will it go on? With the right brackets could go on a digger to

Great build man, excellent job.

I watched Episode1 of log splitter like damn way back 4 or 5 months ago it seems like. After watching the 1st way back then and after like 2 weeks for everyday I would check in to see this here No.2 video. Super glad this came up on my feed today. Rock & Roll now. Hopefully if there is more videos on this splitter they come quick. Hopefully not in another 3 or 4 months when winter is over

😊amigo gosto de ver voce construir as peças. Elas tem uma qualidade indiscustivel. Suas soldas são de uma perfeição. E como disseram nos comentarios, tambem estou ansioso pela parte 3 e ver voce cortando toras. Mas pelo modo como o clima vem agindo acho que tera tempo habil para construir sua maquina.😊❤

Great work!

It looks "farmer proof" to me, good to see you have done it that way as the end of ram seal is protected from damage by logs. Cheers, Jim in New Zealand.

Really enjoy your videos keep them coming thanks

good show as usual . thanks for your time again.

Just watched a Watch Wes Work and you got a shout out on his channel!

I thought this must be a "back-burner" job, something you only do when you have time between paying jobs. Hope you can find the time to continue with it. When you make the "knife" on the end, it would be good if you make one that splits the log into six or eight pieces in one go, which will save a lot of time double handling the wood if it only split the log into two. I knew a woodcutter many decades ago who had one of these log splitters, but I can't remember how many pieces it split the log into in one go, but it might have been six? You could also make more than one "knife" with a different number of splitters to make different sized firewood.

Nice work your come a long way videos are so much better Regards SteveUK London

Wezzer sent I yer 👍

good evening it's 4 am here in NY ..

Well done. New cnc table looks like it does a great job

2:13 that’s exactly what I did with my machine. Works perfect, no problems for over 12 years atm.

top little job there Snow.👍👍👍👍👍

Plasma CNC is a nice thing to have! Solid result - as always. Thanks!

Great videos and progress on the log splitter.

Nice job !!

lolol, i fuckin hate tidying up with a passion....my thinking is, the time i waste tidying up i could be doing something more productive. Even tho stuff isn't in the right place, i always know where it is, so i can still lay my hands on it

Great content as always, so looking forward to episode three and then seeing it working……. your a clever lad 😊😊😊😊

I made a log splitter with a similar design, had some issues with the head sticking if the log it was splitting put uneven pressure on it. Worked great for straight cut logs, hit and miss for rough

We could see you playing beek a boo behind the plasma cutter screen 😅! An honest video is always really appreciated by your viewers, because we're all human! 🤗👏👏👏

That suicidal fly thing is freaky, I remember one time coming into fall at my old metal clad shop I bumped the corner and noticed a cpl flys fall out from behind the cladding at the ground and thought it was strange so I hit the siding again w my hand several more fell out, that got me wondering, long story short after many smacks with various smackers ended up with several thousand half awake (hibernating?) flys in pile, and now every year do a “fly check” of all my structures with cladding but have yet to find another flymagetton although did come across a lady bug Colony but not in the same magnitude and did my best to leave undisturbed once found. Any way love the channel and nice to see someone showing real fabrication challenges and solutions over the highly edited and “perfectly executed” projects on other channels. As you know not every customer can afford or wants the by the book repair. Keep the content flowing and I’ll keep 👍 and subscribing

Watch Wes Work sent me over to your channel! Excellent job mate!

Now thats a log splitter cant wait to see it in action!

I would make that pin removable…… the cylinder might need to be repaired one day….. crazy massive build👍😆

Great video as always Olly. Nice to see the new plasma at work also the Wolhaupter boring head they are marvellous tool I love useing them. Keep up the great work. Paul

Homem+inteligência+tecnologia= Trabalho perfeito. Parabéns! Mais um ótimo trabalho. Abraços do velho professor do Brasil.

It's looking good, can't wait to see it in action

Nice bit of work, being a miller I like to see the boring head in use.

Hi you got a mention on Watch Wes Work !

Great video 👍🏻

Heavy duty log splitter!!

I am enjoying your design ...this is going to split a massage log

Thank you for sharing 👍👍👍👍

25 k congratulations. Great progress my friend.

Good video mate, thanks.

Give the pin a good grease fitting. If something bends then u can still get it out easily if it's gets some grease every now and then. I know from experience working on loading ramps that sit outside. When u have to get those out and they didn't see some grease every now and then you'll be cutting pins and/or even bushings becausr moisture got in there. Even if it's a BIG IF better safe then sorry

Another awesome video. From kiwi land.