I've been using this electric log splitter on a dolly
and two milk crates that get it up a little bit higher
but it's still a bit low and I'd like to build
a better stand for it. Ideally the stand would be
just a little bit narrower this so I could stand closer to it
and a tiny bit higher so I can pick up the pieces off of it
without having to bend over at all, I came up with
an initial sketch of the design with a set of wheels on one end
and then I looked around and I found these wheels
which are just perfect for this but not quite as wide as
I was initially thinking, so I made the design a little bit
narrower to accommodate the axle that I've got
and I'll try to make it out of some old scraps of 2 by 4.
This drawing is one to two and a half scale so if I measure
from here to here ten centimeters that's actually
twenty five centimeters in real life.
This part will cradle the feet of the motor on a log splitter
and then two legs go on here like this
and then the axle goes here and this will help hold
the axle in place.
And I want to put a piece of 2 by 6 through here.
Well I hope that wasn't too painful to watch.
Now this part goes here.
This will be the top of the other end of the stand
and. the legs on that side will have to be a little bit longer
and I think I'll also make the stance of a little bit wider.
Now I got to check that these come to the same height.
So this makes a pocket that holds the feet in place.
This part was kind of an afterthought
this notch hooks around the axle here
and I put that in like this.
I can lock the other end in place.
Even if you buy split firewood a lot of the pieces end up
beings being split way too course, or not at all
like this one and it's surprising how much
a little electric log splitter like this can take.
If you're splitting shorter pieces like this, it's annoying
always having to wait for that saw to come forward.
But this is why I made this thing in here I put that there
and then the cylinder can't go all the way back
so I don't have to wait as long.
Now there's one more very important hint about using
a lot splitter like this the cylinder pulls
on these rods here and the log pushes out here which means
there's a lot of leverage going this way and there's a plastic
pad that slides on here and on here
but these will slide a lot better if you just
grease or oil this part here.
And correspondingly on the bottom here.
And it will run quieter, use less energy,
and actually have more horse that way.
And it will run quieter use less energy
and actually have more forced entry.