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

[Jstpssng]

Not sure who you were addressing on this, but here the chips are used to generate electricity in biomass power plants. Don't ever think I've seen anyone who uses them to heat their house with.
I do recall years ago reading an article (Mother Earth News maybe?) about someone who used wood gasification to run his truck. Like so much else in that magazine, it seemed that the whole project was primarily to thumb their nose at "the man" than to be a practical alternate fuel....the setup took up most of the truck's bed making it pretty useless as a truck.

There were a lot of those wood burners back in WWII... things were different then.
I believe that Hemmings had one for sale a few years ago.

 

[jaxs]

I do recall years ago reading an article (Mother Earth News maybe?) about someone who used wood gasification to run his truck. Like so much else in that magazine, it seemed that the whole project was primarily to thumb their nose at "the man" than to be a practical alternate fuel....the setup took up most of the truck's bed making it pretty useless as a truck.

Didn't "Useless" and Darrel build one on Mountain Man Show?

 

[ptsg]

It sure would be interesting to see how that chipped up stuff is used as fuel in a domestic setting.

I could see a gasification set up, but that seems to technical considering the regional settings of the choppers.

And what a mess if it comes into the house in bags and then pulled out by the handful to charge a small kitchen or parlor stove. No, It's got to be burned another way.

Keep me posted if you come across anything.

ptsg, what did you burn those small sticks in? The big stuff would be fine for any chunk stove.

To be fair, I don't really have a need for these things anymore, but I was tired of seeing piles of branches everywhere. Specially because we rent a 4000 sq ft shop to a company that manufacture of injection moulds for plastics and they have a lot of people coming in and out, some high end clients, like BMW, Mercedes, and so on. So those piles look really bad and we want to keep everything nice and clean.

I mostly burn this stuff on a small parlor stove I have in my workshop. Works great and it's very easy to pour a handful of these things there. My dad also made a mini kebab grill that uses wood/coal instead of electric elements. This small sticks are great for that as it fits just perfectly. The small sticks are also great to start bigger fires with.

Up until 5 or so ago, we used something to heat water with that I can't find the name in English. It's basically a 100 liter boiler on top of a very short small stove. It heated water really fast but was always a pain to go back and forth to get wood and feed it, specially on the colder days. Between me and my dad, we used to cut thousands and thousands of broken pallets that were no good anymore for the industry. We got those for free. The cut pieces couldn't be longer than a foot or the door wouldn't close. This branch chopper I know have, would be perfect for that and I'm we would burn loads and loads of these small sticks.

We now have two solar panels on the terrace and a 300 liter tank with electric backup on the laundry room. Absolutely the best thing we ever done. The water is always between 50ºC and 70ºC without even needed the electric backup.

These branch loggers won't replace the log splitter or split wood. It's just a way to repurpose the branches. People still cut/split/burn loads and loads of wood.

RemetCNC is a big company that makes these branch loggers. An actual legit company, not some redneck on the backyard like most videos look like. They make gas, diesel and PTO powered units. The biggest PTO powered one will require at least 90 HP but will cut material up to 6.5" and throw out pieces about a foot long. They also make the standard wood chippers and some badass PTO forestry mulchers for tractors.

Here is the link if any of you are interested: Rębak WOM RP-200 - Rębak Walcowy Podwieszany do Ciągnika

And here is a picture of the older water heater that we used. Again, I'm not sure of the name in English, maybe wood fired water heater?

 

[turnkey4099]

I end u with a lot of that length when I come to the end of a log and I’ve.been keeping uniform 15 inch ketch’s. Gf gets pissed I bring it home but it burns just as good. Just hard to stack. I used some in our fire pit. Wood stove carried in a bucket. And her friend took a lot for their firepit

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.

 

[Jstpssng]

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.

Ditto here, although they also are great for bonfires and an occasional beanhole bean fire.

 

[ruffdog]

I always thought they were called wood chunkers;

 

[ning]

I consider 3" and up good for the fire box.

Before I got my tractor, I'd trim stuff down to 1-1.5"; now that I've got the tractor, lots of that ends up in the burn pile because with its help I process a lot more brush & trees and got overwhelmed by wood (what's the point of cutting it all to nice lengths and then having it rot?)

We still keep some of the really small stuff and use it in the grill - scrub oak makes for a nice hot & tasty fire!
Also the smalls are used to start up the fire. I find that a bunch of paper, small wood pieces (not split), and a bernzomatic torch makes for a really quick fire, and then I toss big stuff on and shut the stove down.

One of these days I'll get a chipper... not sure I'm gutsy enough to make & use one of these de-limbers...

 

[CalG]

I always thought they were called wood chunkers;

jeez'm, around here white birch is burned for heat only if you have to. ;-)

A lot get's bundled and sold to tourists though.

 

[CalG]

To be fair, I don't really have a need for these things anymore, but I was tired of seeing piles of branches everywhere. Specially because we rent a 4000 sq ft shop to a company that manufacture of injection moulds for plastics and they have a lot of people coming in and out, some high end clients, like BMW, Mercedes, and so on. So those piles look really bad and we want to keep everything nice and clean.

I mostly burn this stuff on a small parlor stove I have in my workshop. Works great and it's very easy to pour a handful of these things there. My dad also made a mini kebab grill that uses wood/coal instead of electric elements. This small sticks are great for that as it fits just perfectly. The small sticks are also great to start bigger fires with.

Up until 5 or so ago, we used something to heat water with that I can't find the name in English. It's basically a 100 liter boiler on top of a very short small stove. It heated water really fast but was always a pain to go back and forth to get wood and feed it, specially on the colder days. Between me and my dad, we used to cut thousands and thousands of broken pallets that were no good anymore for the industry. We got those for free. The cut pieces couldn't be longer than a foot or the door wouldn't close. This branch chopper I know have, would be perfect for that and I'm we would burn loads and loads of these small sticks.

We now have two solar panels on the terrace and a 300 liter tank with electric backup on the laundry room. Absolutely the best thing we ever done. The water is always between 50ºC and 70ºC without even needed the electric backup.

These branch loggers won't replace the log splitter or split wood. It's just a way to repurpose the branches. People still cut/split/burn loads and loads of wood.

RemetCNC is a big company that makes these branch loggers. An actual legit company, not some redneck on the backyard like most videos look like. They make gas, diesel and PTO powered units. The biggest PTO powered one will require at least 90 HP but will cut material up to 6.5" and throw out pieces about a foot long. They also make the standard wood chippers and some badass PTO forestry mulchers for tractors.

Here is the link if any of you are interested: Rębak WOM RP-200 - Rębak Walcowy Podwieszany do Ciągnika

And here is a picture of the older water heater that we used. Again, I'm not sure of the name in English, maybe wood fired water heater?

When I see the machines used to produce the chunks running entire small trees, and filling large wagons, Thinking it all goes to camp fires and cooking beans gets to be a stretch.

I guess the domestic burners that a modest family would have in Slovenia or Lithuania are just secrets.

 

[ptsg]

When I see the machines used to produce the chunks running entire small trees, and filling large wagons, Thinking it all goes to camp fires and cooking beans gets to be a stretch.

I guess the domestic burners that a modest family would have in Slovenia or Lithuania are just secrets.

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."