Project 3 from bobwills- log splitter wedge

[bobwills]

Its firewood season again and decided that its time to do something to speed up the splitting part of doing firewood. So my next project is gonna be a wedge that will split the log into 4 pieces instead of two therefore cutting time almost in half. But this aint gonna be like most ones people make. My plan is to make it to where it will just slip over the original one so if your just needing them split into halfs you can pull it right off without some big process.

It will look a lot like this.

[jerky]

hurry up and get this done. id like to see how it works.

[67cudafb]

Very cool design, hope it works as good as it looks. Let us know

[sportbike]

Provided you have a powerful enough splitter, you may want to think about angling the horizontal blades toward the canter just a bit, that is keeping them horizontal, but tapering them a bit so that they slightly pull the wood toward the centerline of the main wedge. Most of the 4 split wedges tend to push the logs apart and provide unsatisfactory splitting on the horizontal split. The downside is that it requires a bit more splitting force as it increases the friction force against the main wedge.

[bobwills]

Yeah i know. Me too. It would speed things up so much. Not sure what kind of design im gonna use. Might use grater blades for the wings. Gonna be needing it pretty soon though.