Building A Hydraulic Wood Splitter

Keep your woodbox full without back breaking effort by building this hydraulic log splitter.

Building a hydraulic wood splitter.

I built this for about 200. Log splitters are basically made with an i beam frame engine splitter head hydraulic cylinder oil pump along with a valve system and hoses. Use old gas engines tractor engines hydraulic pumps and a variety of machine parts to get the power to easily tear the wood logs. Building a hydraulic log splitter is a project that requires metal working as well as some welding skills.

These projects involve recycling lots of old stuff from old vehicles to build lasting longer log splitter that will start slitting the wood logs like veggies. It has an 8hp briggs stratton vertical shaft engine salvaged from from a rusted out yard tractor a 2 stage hydraulic pump fro. Build platform the main part of the structure is the axle which the hydraulic ram will travel along.