Speeco wedge's gone kaput

[HeatsTwice]

Got the new wedge back today. Total bill $200. Great deal considering.... I checked it out on the same peice of Eucolyptus that busted the first wedge. It split it with no problem.

 

[TreePointer]

Looks nice and beefy. Thanks for posting the picture of your solution.

 

[HeatsTwice]

Looks nice and beefy. Thanks for posting the picture of your solution.

He made it an inch higher and moved the knife edge closer to the plate front as I asked - even though doing so violates OSHA requirements of 1.5" back from the front of the plate. It was just such a pain not being able to split through to the end of rounds.

He also did what Mr. Chase suggested - which was to have the ram contact the back of the wedge during the push cycle, only using the bolt for the pull cycle.

Thanks Bret.

 

[HeatsTwice]

Looks nice and beefy. Thanks for posting the picture of your solution.

Also I feel I should give a "plug" for the machine shop that did the work. Their name is Barndt's Welding of Santa Rosa and of the 4 different shops I talked to they had the best bid and seemed to know the most about what to do. Evidently they had done many of these in the past and I didn't have to spend a lot of time explaining what I wanted. Larry over there just said: "Don't worry about it, we know what to do" - and they did. Their staff was very knowledgeable also.

 

[Jags]

Nice. That is gonna work just fine for a long time.

 

[Bret Chase]

He made it an inch higher and moved the knife edge closer to the plate front as I asked - even though doing so violates OSHA requirements of 1.5" back from the front of the plate. It was just such a pain not being able to split through to the end of rounds.

He also did what Mr. Chase suggested - which was to have the ram contact the back of the wedge during the push cycle, only using the bolt for the pull cycle.

Thanks Bret.

Welcome (sorry, been away for a while)

 

[Grateful11]

You said you used a sledge hammer to beat the wedge out of the slide. I would suggest if anyone has to do that again that they put a piece of wood on the wedge and hit on the wood not a hardened sledge hammer against a sharpened steel wedge. If it were a flat surface you would probably be fine but I'm surprised something didn't chip off the wedge while beating on it.

I know a guy that was beating on a piece steel somewhat similar to that situation and a metal shard popped off and he felt a slight stinging sensation in his stomach area. He didn't really think too much about it but noticed when he changed clothes he had a small cut in his skin. Within 2 days he was having emergency surgery to remove that metal shard from the lining of his stomach. He said the pain had gone beyond anything he could handle and knew something was going on.

 

[Wildo]

You said you used a sledge hammer to beat the wedge out of the slide. I would suggest if anyone has to do that again that they put a piece of wood on the wedge and hit on the wood not a hardened sledge hammer against a sharpened steel wedge. If it were a flat surface you would probably be fine but I'm surprised something didn't chip off the wedge while beating on it.

I know a guy that was beating on a piece steel somewhat similar to that situation and a metal shard popped off and he felt a slight stinging sensation in his stomach area. He didn't really think too much about it but noticed when he changed clothes he had a small cut in his skin. Within 2 days he was having emergency surgery to remove that metal shard from the lining of his stomach. He said the pain had gone beyond anything he could handle and knew something was going on.

I had something similar happen with a brush saw and a rock and I didn't know until I felt a line of blood running down my arm. It took me an hour with a razor and tweezers to get it out( over 1/2 inch in).