[AT] OT Bachtold Brothers log splitter

[Alan Nadeau]

John,

The only in-tank pumps I have run across have been little multiple cylinder 
piston pumps and the valve has been in the tank as well, IIRC.   Surplus 
Center usually has the whole assemblies somewhere in their hydraulics 
listings.  You might get a manufacturers name from the listing and be able 
to track down a pump from that.

They are really quite an ingenious design.  Being submerged in the tank the 
crankshaft and connecting rods are open and run submerged in the hydraulic 
oil.  Not a lot of volume to them but they make wicked pressure.  The one I 
got expensively intimate with blew the end out of a dump truck piston when I 
forgot it was engaged.

PS, sorta

I just remembered that I recently received a new Surplus Center catalog. 
They still have the units I was thinking of, made by a Williams Machine & 
Tool Company.  Go to www.surpluscenter.com and look up their Item # 9-1049. 
Their is a photo that you can compare to what you have.

Al Nadeau


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Subject: [AT] OT Bachtold Brothers log splitter


> Trying to help a friend who needs a pump for his log splitter. The pump is 
> evidently submersible as it goes inside the tank. The splitter is made by 
> Bachtold Bros (we can’t read the model number). I can’t find anything 
> productive on the net other than a phone number for Midwest Mfg, and they 
> aren’t answering. Anyone know if they are still in business of if someone 
> other than Midwest has bought them out?
>
> John Hall
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