Adirondack case guy
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Well, way back since when, I have split my fire wood and let it drop off my splitter onto the ground and then picked it back up and loaded it onto the dump trailer or PU truck. This year things will be different!! I went down to a local independent tractor supply store and picked up a weld on hub and sprocket and an idler to string some old scavanged flat hook conveyor chain on to.
I then went down to my friends at R imps. and loaded up a bunch of steel Kubota crates and a couple of discarded 5.70x8 tires, that I will mount on some wheels of of a defuncked Case garden tractor, all, at no charge, The crates will make a nice light weight steel frame for the chasis and elevator bed.
I will put pipe Tees in the splitter cyl. ports and plumb in hyd. hoses and couplings to power the elevator. The cylinder power port will be plumbed with a directional flow check valve so the hyd motor on the evelator won't run backwards when spliting a block and the return port on the cylinder will just be Teed so when I hold the lever back the hyd motor will run and convey the wood to the top of the elevator. The conveyor chain will only run when the spliter control lever is held in the return position.
Last winter I redesigned the Myers snow plow frame to fit my Case 440, and constructed the cab complete with heat, radio and rear facing vidio cam. I also decided to build a quick attach front 3pt hitch so I could mount my splitter on the 440 when the plow was off, rather than on my Kubota B2150 that also has to mow all my lawns. I won't have to keep mounting and dismounting the 60" belly mower deck, between mowing and cutting/splitting wood all summer.
The 3pt skidding arch pictured on the back of the Kubota will also be mounted on the Case 440 when I get a mod 3pt hitch built for the back of it. the 440 was an industrial hwy. mower tractor and never had a 3pt, pto and hydraulics. I added a factory hyd system a couple years back.
Stay tuned as the elevator project progresses.
PS the temp got real nice on the concrete drive by the doors of my shop and woodshed this afternoon.
Loren, the Acg.
I then went down to my friends at R imps. and loaded up a bunch of steel Kubota crates and a couple of discarded 5.70x8 tires, that I will mount on some wheels of of a defuncked Case garden tractor, all, at no charge, The crates will make a nice light weight steel frame for the chasis and elevator bed.
I will put pipe Tees in the splitter cyl. ports and plumb in hyd. hoses and couplings to power the elevator. The cylinder power port will be plumbed with a directional flow check valve so the hyd motor on the evelator won't run backwards when spliting a block and the return port on the cylinder will just be Teed so when I hold the lever back the hyd motor will run and convey the wood to the top of the elevator. The conveyor chain will only run when the spliter control lever is held in the return position.
Last winter I redesigned the Myers snow plow frame to fit my Case 440, and constructed the cab complete with heat, radio and rear facing vidio cam. I also decided to build a quick attach front 3pt hitch so I could mount my splitter on the 440 when the plow was off, rather than on my Kubota B2150 that also has to mow all my lawns. I won't have to keep mounting and dismounting the 60" belly mower deck, between mowing and cutting/splitting wood all summer.
The 3pt skidding arch pictured on the back of the Kubota will also be mounted on the Case 440 when I get a mod 3pt hitch built for the back of it. the 440 was an industrial hwy. mower tractor and never had a 3pt, pto and hydraulics. I added a factory hyd system a couple years back.
Stay tuned as the elevator project progresses.
PS the temp got real nice on the concrete drive by the doors of my shop and woodshed this afternoon.
Loren, the Acg.