Amazing Homemade Log Splitter Wood Processing Machine using Worm Gearbox 20:1

[NortonDommi]

Percussion log splitters are very clearly dangerous, A portable saw is far safer:

[Toolmaker51]

Was this Mk.I?

Next Darwin candidate, or is it participant?
Agreed. Horrendous. Starting with goofy turned down hat brim. What blade?
Without enough inertia for a sure cut, throws your timing off.
Hello emergency room, goodbye digits. The terrain says one not around the corner either.

[Isambard]

I see his key-way cutting skills did not stand the test of time! His solution rather appalled me, welding the shaft at both ends to the gear hub! :-(
Severe thumbs down for that! His one bolt fastening of the electric motor, was right up there with Heath Robinson, too!
His lack of materials lead to a couple of design anomalies... see the bottom of the gearbox mounts...

[owen moore]

The guy that designed that big splitting wheels name was "Lefty".

[Bony]

A kindling splitter possibly, but log splitter is perhaps a rather ambitious description. And is scares me too.

[gatz]

When it happens, man up and tell us; don't leave us in suspence

[hemmjo]

Where O where does one find old worm drive reduction gearbox's in the trash?

I found one. It was in a dentist chair that someone dropped off at the township recycling bins. Which are for can, glass bottles, card board and plastic bottles.

I got a lot good stuff out of that chair. I am still using parts of it. The wrom drive is still on my shelf. I see it in my imagination as the basis for an indexing table. But not time for that yet.