2011 - Volume #35, Issue #1, Page #37
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Log Splitter Converts To Metal Bender
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The bender consists of a short length of heavy angle iron that mounts on front of the splitter wedge. A horizontal steel plate that's welded on top of the angle iron rests on top of the wedge, and a short length of strap iron welded to the bottom of the angle iron rests on the splitter table. Square tubing welded onto the middle of the horizontal plate fits down inside the hollow wedge to hold it in place when bending metal. To convert back to splitting wood, Hostetler simply pulls the bender off the wedge.
"The splitter has 22 tons of pressure so it can do some heavy duty bending," says Hostetler. "My son and I recently used it to straighten a 1 5/8-in. dia. solid steel bar. We also used it to straighten one of the tines on a forklift."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Milan Hochstetler, 174 Vogel Rd., Cumberland, Va. 23040 (ph 804 492-4295).
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