I've seen many videos about processing wood this way, but none about the burners for same.

[Oaktree]

I call all my shorts, longs, knots, etc, anything that won't stack nice "uglies". They get dumped in a pile just off the patio and burned first at the sstart of the heating season. The 'smalls' get carried in by the bucket load.

Never called them anything in particular, but I have a couple 3 x 3 x 3 bins I throw all the odd pieces that won't split, end pieces from a log, notches, etc. and likewise use 'em at the beginning of the season when all I really need to do is take the chill off the house in the evening. "October wood".

 

[Jstpssng]

My father used to cut his firewood on a cordwood saw behind the tractor, and never could understand why anybody would use a chain saw. I hated the thing as I was always the one taking wood off next to that whirring blade. With a good sized chunk I really had to be paying attention and brace myself when it came off the table to keep it from pulling me into the blade. When he passed away 4 years ago that saw rig was the first thing that we sold.
Lately though I've been thinking about how handy it would be, as I'm thinning a young hardwood stand and producing a lot of small poles, 3-6 inches on the butt and 8-16 feet long. At one time he had an arbor and 24" circular blade which he wanted to use for a saw table for his hit-and-miss engine, one of those projects which never happen. I believe that it's still down there, and I may claim it for my own. I have enough steel kicking around for the table, and several small engines so that powering it won't be a problem.

 

[CalG]

That waaaay too far for me to know what they actually use. I'm sure most just use a simple wood stove.

Straight form another manufacturer of these branch loggers: "For the processing of wood waste into fuel for pyrolysis and solid fuel boilers, fireplaces, stoves and also for the production of charcoal."

ptsg.

I'm of the opinion that the use of chunk fuel today is very much different than rural use even 30 years ago.

 

[ptsg]

ptsg.

I'm of the opinion that the use of chunk fuel today is very much different than rural use even 30 years ago.

For sure. Nowadays, they'll find every single possible way to extract the maximum amount of energy of a simple piece of split wood.

 

[CalG]

For sure. Nowadays, they'll find every single possible way to extract the maximum amount of energy of a simple piece of split wood.

bio mass is energy.

Sometimes I would just like to make use of the stuff that would otherwise go to waste. At present, I make use of the tractor powered chipper, compost piles, and the gardens.

In winter, the gardens fade in significance, and HEAT comes to the fore in importance. ;-)

 

[oosik]

Some of those "chunkers" look like something the Godfather might use. Kind of limited use. Tall trees - small diameter - short chunked pieces.

I would like to see the "stove" that burns this chunked up stuff.

I guess it would be OK if you had tall, skinny trees.

 

[the old grind]

See my avatar, typical of 2-4 times/yr. I also have a lot of scrub oak, mulberry, and black locust on very little land. (elm & poplar too) So much of it could be donated if I could find a user. Seems wasteful that the only reason I burn wood is to light a bigger pile of it.

 

[Gem99ultra]

They all look..... dangerous.

That was my first thought too! I'd be building some safety shields for either of these machines.