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Cub Converted To Mobile Wood Splitter
Clifford Smith turned one of his Farmall Cub tractors into a motorized wood splitter that he can drive into the woods to cut firewood for his shop.
    Smith uses many of the tractors in his 18-tractor collection for gardening, landscaping and other work around his Villa Ridge, Mo., property. Back in the 1980’s he ran a wood splitter off a Farmall’s pto.
    A couple of years ago he had the “wild idea” to mount a splitter on the side of a Cub. He purchased a 22-ton splitter and made room for it on the Cub by replacing the front with a low-boy axle and changing the rear tractor’s tires. He discovered that the bolt pattern on 15-in. Dodge 1/2-ton pickup tires is the same as the Cub’s.
    “The smaller tires lower the tractor, and the rear tire is out of the way of the splitter,” he explains. “The log splitter pump is mounted on top of the transmission and runs off the pto.”
    Smith notes that the Cub has a fast pto without gearing it up much, which is important for running the splitter.
    The splitter is stored horizontally when he drives the Cub. Once he’s on-site, he upends the splitter and can move wood onto it without having to lift.
    With an 8,000-lb. winch on the back of the splitter, Smith can pull logs out of the woods and has the option to load them on a trailer behind the Cub if he wants to cut boards on his sawmill.
    “This outfit works great,” Smith says, with the small tractor able to drive through narrow places.
    Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Clifford Smith, 420 Honey Valley Dr., Villa Ridge, Mo. 63089 (ph 636 451-2538; cliffbevsmith@charter.net).



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2018 - Volume #42, Issue #3