Buzz saw... what horse power needed. Screw splitter add on?

[coachgeo]

There is a 28" bladed buzz saw for sell near me. There is another that looks little smaller. Both PTO driven. Just don't know if my L235 has enough juice. I would assume so... but you know what they say about Assuming

So what's ya'lls experience?

What about crazy idea of adding to the opposite end of the shaft.... a screw drive long more split set up.

 

[Daren Todd]

Coach, your tractor will run it fine We had one that we originally powered with an old farmall A. Then an old McCormick, then ford 2000, then finally dad's l2250. Just run it on 540 pto and you will be fine

 

[coachgeo]

Coach, your tractor will run it fine We had one that we originally powered with an old farmall A. Then an old McCormick, then ford 2000, then finally dad's l2250. Just run it on 540 pto and you will be fine

Figured it would but one should never assume. The local ones for sell are pretty old but are PTO driven, and both appear to be PTO "shaft" driven lol. Some old ones were belt driven off side of tractor engine.

 

[In Utopia]

If you're referring to a screw type log splitter it takes very little power to run one.
My son built one. We ran it off my 640 Ford and used the L175 to move the logs around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcnXqQl0CvU&t=9s

 

[D2Cat]

I bought a new one in about 1985 from Kubota and used it on a B6100. Tractor powered the device fine, but put it under the bench and sold it 20 years latter. It's a pain in the back!! You have to stoop over to use it, and the wood has to be long enough to catch the cross piece you you'll have a whirrly bird flying around in an extremely dangerous situation, or you'll get it suck in a piece of wood and have fun backing it out.

My recommendation is to avoid that type of splitrer, use the more popular hyd. ram on a beam type.