Looking for plans / ideas to make a ""russian" log splitter

[pcaffeldt]

Like this

[Jon]

Interesting, good post. I wonder how heavy the splitting arm is.

[jdaley]

No good for Australian Hardwood though.

[Boating Bill]

Very impressive if all you have to split is small-diameter, bone-dry softwood with few knots. Up here in the Sierra much of what we split is 18-30" Ponderosa pine rounds that would be quite a challenge to lift up on that table. Some of the knots can stall out my 22-ton horizontal/vertical splitter. On oak that machine would be useless.

[SoCalDeere]

Looks like the car spring is for pulling the wedge back up

The weight of the wedge is probley balance against the spring

If that wedge is all steel it is very heavy

From what I see the wedge has different angles the first part to hit the wood is very narrow getting wider to drive the wood further apart

I could only see the video at 2"x2" on My cell phone

[gunsgt1863]

Found this, same video. Spring Assist Manual Log Splitter Plans

[pcaffeldt]

Found this, same video. Spring Assist Manual Log Splitter Plans

Man ! Thanks so much ! That is it exactly

[SoCalDeere]

Looks good