An old rim from a car’s wheel doesn’t have to be thrown away for scrap. It will make a useful home-made product for a summer house and a private house - a splitter. With it, you can quickly and effortlessly prepare firewood for the stove, fireplace or barbecue.
So, to make a simple manual wood splitter for home and garden, you will need an old (even rusty) rim from the wheel, as well as an angle grinder with cutting and flap wheels.
The main stages of work
First of all, with the help of a grinder, we cut out the inner part from the rim. In the disk itself, you will also need to cut out the convex middle, so that in the end you get a “donut”. We process the edges with a petal grinding wheel.
Two steel round pipes are welded vertically to the rim from the car wheel. Between them (just above the middle) we fix a homemade knife made of a metal plate. Then we weld the previously cut "donut" to the upper edge of the pipes.
The principle of operation of such a device is very simple. Set the log on the knife from the plate, and then hit it with a heavy hammer or a sledgehammer. Other heavy objects can be used for this - for example, a piece of steel pipe.
The detailed process of making a homemade splitter from an old rim from a car wheel can be seen in the video on our website. Do you think such homework in the household will come in handy?
