Harbor Freight 10 Ton Manual Log Splitter Simple Modification and Test
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2023
- Harbor Freight 10 ton manual log splitter works well for the most part. Can handle logs a little over 19” or 48 cm from the factory and has a stroke of about 10” or 25.4 cm.
From the factory the wedge is dull and rounded over. Splitting hard wood, or your wood with twisting or curly grain is a problem.
This is a test to see if improving the wedge can improve the speed, effort, or capability.
All the wood in the video hasn’t been down 10 days so green and wet. Tree has multiple fungi so need to dry the wood quickly to kill them off to preserve the wood. All of this was cut with a DeWalt 20Vmax chainsaw with an Oregon 14” chain and bar.
Doesn’t need electricity or fuel and its cheap compared to a powered log splitter. Has good capacity and can be operated anywhere, any time. Perfect for a backup log splitter or when you only have a small amount of logs to split like typically we do. Downside is it can be a workout especially with the dull and rounded factory wedge.
This video is supplied for entertainment purposes only. Exceeding the capacity of a log splitter can cause damage to the equipment or operator!
I did similar on mine. Two things I did were change out those Iron Caster wheels for HF 4 Inch Rubber wheels with some drilling and some bolts for axles, and then welded a knife edge piece of metal at the tip of the weld and then ground it sharp.
I see from your newer video you did similar. ;)
I need to find a seal kit for it though as it is five years old now, and the front seal has gone bad and leaks a lot now.
As for the axe comments, yeah okay, enjoy yourself. I have arthritis and this saves me a ton of pain.
Your mileage may vary.
A Fiskars splitting axe works wonders. I've split 6 foot read oak with one before. My Canadian cousin told me to keep the axe from sticking twist your wrists right before the axe hits.
I'm debating if to get one. I dont have spare cash, and a good electric splitter is $400, gas $1000.
If this hand pump log splitter would work on big y branch logs save me time and money.
Good unit...
I have this splitter and don't feel any mod required!
This is also sold by SunJoe and other companies.
Question: When did you purchase this 10-ton Harbor Freight manual unit? I bought mine 4 years ago and it had no such crappy welds on the cutting edge of the cutter head! If mine had had such a mess, I would have exchanged it for another that did not have that problem. Glad you were able to over come it. When I get in rounds and they are too heavy for me to put them on my table at 3 feet tall, I am 74 years old, I work it on to this unit and spllt the log one time. Then I can lift them onto the table with my HF 5 ton electric splitter!
Since I don't split that much wood, and it was on sale, it was the cheapest I could buy. Most low-end imports like these have this kind of welds.
Did you just skim the video or something?
Those "Crappy welds on the tip of the cutting edge" didn't come with the splitter, those were added so he could grind down a sharp edge from them. I mean, that's the whole point of his video...
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Painful to watch that process but would be useful in some situations I'm sure.
Far easier than s splitting wedge or axe.
@t-towncase3808 I have a timberwolf tw6. Sometimes I swing an axe bc I'm getting older and can use the exercise. Before I had a splitter it got old real quick.
A lot more painful to do by hand with an axe, and forget some of those rounds, as you won't be splitting any of those with any axe.