my new Firewood toys

Brushhill dave · Mar 15, 2012

Congrats on your purchase. I am willing to admit I'm jealous.

GrizzyDan · Mar 15, 2012

Love the pictures! It's great to see how other people are handling their firewood. Who knows, you just may find that firewood is a profitable source of (a lot of) extra income now that you have the means of producing it quickly while at the same time putting less strain on your body. Yet even for 20 cords a year that processor would pay for itself where I live in 3-4 years depending on the type of firewood... That is, if you were to buy it. 20 cords is no easy feat with a chainsaw and logsplitter.

Sackett2 · Mar 15, 2012

amazing equipment; but even if we burned 20 cord a year that would be difficult to process the wood we seem to get. Last summer and this summer we had to bust the firewood into pieces to get them to the splitter

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AchingBack · Mar 15, 2012

Just terrific work on your setup. I do not envy you having to process 20 cords per year. I probably use that much in 5 years. How many hours does it take to produce 20 cords?

namesray · Mar 15, 2012

awesome setup. 20 cords, you mean 20 full cords (60 face cords?) we use the face cord measurement here in northern pa. alot. that is a lot of wood to get a year. i do firewood as part of a small business and i do about 66 full cords (200 face cords) a year, mostly by myself. i wish i had your set up. i have thought about firewood processors, but would need more customers before i would get one. (getting more customers each year.) i also do a lot of tree tops that would not work on a processor due to all the branches (not too many straight logs.) so i still cut it up by hand. i love my 3ph winch. that has made a tremendous difference.

way to use your ingenuity and determination. those are some great pieces of equipment. enjoy and many years of happy, safe working!:thumbsup:

arrow · Mar 15, 2012

namesray said:
awesome setup. 20 cords, you mean 20 full cords (60 face cords?) we use the face cord measurement here in northern pa. alot. that is a lot of wood to get a year. i do firewood as part of a small business and i do about 66 full cords (200 face cords) a year, mostly by myself. i wish i had your set up. i have thought about firewood processors, but would need more customers before i would get one. (getting more customers each year.) i also do a lot of tree tops that would not work on a processor due to all the branches (not too many straight logs.) so i still cut it up by hand. i love my 3ph winch. that has made a tremendous difference.

way to use your ingenuity and determination. those are some great pieces of equipment. enjoy and many years of happy, safe working!:thumbsup:

Ray, When I was in the business. The yard I worked for produced 200 cord per year. We used to bring quite a bit of it to Cape Cod Ma. as prices there would be over $75-100 more than what we'd get for it here per cord. Now this was with a yard full of workers. If I were alone, I'd feel more than justified in sinking 15K-20K for some type of processor even if I had to get a 3 yr note business loan. You could also deduct much of it as it would be for a business.

JohnDeere4300 · Mar 15, 2012

tbutman said:
take another look, posted pics

Very nice equipment!!!:thumbsup:...I want it all!!!

Thanks for sharing!!

Bill

tbutman · Mar 15, 2012

Exactly the right question to ask. I'm 47 years old and quite portly. It takes me most of the summer and I'm sick of it. I'm hoping this will stream line things so that I can get a year ahead and take a fraction of that amount of time thereafter.

tbutman · Mar 15, 2012

namesray said:
awesome setup. 20 cords, you mean 20 full cords (60 face cords?) we use the face cord measurement here in northern pa. alot. that is a lot of wood to get a year. i do firewood as part of a small business and i do about 66 full cords (200 face cords) a year, mostly by myself. i wish i had your set up. i have thought about firewood processors, but would need more customers before i would get one. (getting more customers each year.) i also do a lot of tree tops that would not work on a processor due to all the branches (not too many straight logs.) so i still cut it up by hand. i love my 3ph winch. that has made a tremendous difference.

way to use your ingenuity and determination. those are some great pieces of equipment. enjoy and many years of happy, safe working!:thumbsup:

Yes full cords of wood. The processor despite it's small size will process up to a 20" log but you may have to run it through the splitter a second time when the woods that big. The hydraulic 4 way split won't quite line up right on wood that size. It will do 16" logs all day though. The splitter auto detents, just smack both levers forward and it splits and retracts by itself, allowing you to advance the log for your next cut while it does so. Bill in his infinite wisdom also made the reservoir twice as large as needed so that even with cavitation the hydraulic oil never gets all that hot. It has a 40 gal reservoir.

Johndeere3720 · Mar 15, 2012

Wow, I envy you. I processed about 15 full cord last year, we burn about 4 full cord per winter. Sold the other 11 cord in two weeks time. :thumbsup: Im hoping I will be able to process more wood this year, the customers are out there, I just need to keep up with the demand. I finally got a skid steer so i can efficiently haul logs out of the woods now. :thumbsup: