[TheForge] Re: cone spliter, was magic tumblers

Thu Oct 24 18:46:00 2002

works better one handed.

bob s.
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>Friend of mine bought a cone splitter. bolt to rearend of truck jack up truck and feed log into screw. Log twists angainst the ground and is fed into the screw and splits.
>All went well until he hit a Knot with the screw, log gouged out hole in ground and came around. truck still runing, beat the rear fender to smash before he could get the truck stopped. LOL Seemed like a good way tp get hurt to me. :(
> Shannell Sugrue <[email protected]> wrote:How do you hold the log? in your hands??? seems it will take a lota strength
>to hold the log??
>
>>
>> i remember a simple device for splitting wood.
>> it was a cone that had a flange which fit the bolt
>> pattern for the rear wheel of cars. the cone had
>> a minimal screw thread. you could just bearly feel
>> the screw thread but it was there. jack the car up
>> take off the rear wheel and mount the cone. than you
>> put the car in low and let the cone turn at a low engine
>> rpm. you would feed log into the cone point the they would
>> screw right unto the cone being split in the process.
>> the cones were not entirely hollow but nearly.
>> split a good deal of wood for many years with one
>> several decades ago.
>
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