Hay Elevator Moves Split Wood

Hay Elevator Moves Split Wood BALE HANDLING Les Adelman and his son Mark use a 5-speed elevator to move chunks of wood away from his homemade splitter Vol 37 No 3 The transmission was salvaged from a Ford Pinto The forward gears are nice but it is reverse that Adelman really appreciates “It’s really handy when a chunk of wood gets jammed ” says Adelman “We use belt drives instead of chain drives We can keep them a little loose so they slip if the elevator jams It gives us time to shift into neutral and then into reverse to clear the jam ” Adding a transmission to the old grain elevator drive was also an easy way to gear it down from the higher speed electric motor Without it he would have had to calculate pulley size or buy a lower speed higher torque electric motor The transmission allowed him to use various sized salvaged pulleys and gave him the reverse option Adelman runs a belt from a small pulley on the motor to a slightly larger pulley on the transmission driveshaft that is mounted under the elevator The shift lever is mounted on the opposite side of the elevator next to a small drive pulley In turn it is belted to a large pulley on a shaft that transfers the drive back to the motor side of the elevator There a small pulley is belted to a slightly larger pulley on the elevator chain drive “The different pulley sizes combined with low gear in the transmission provide just the right speed for clearing wood away from the splitter ” says Adelman “It sure beats having to stack the wood by hand!” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Les Adelman 3225 125th St N E Rice Minn 56367 ph 320 393-2741; ladlmn@jetup net

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