kindling machine

[Treemonkey1000]

Dont worry, there will be pictures, I dont think you guys realise but I'm in the uk

Well some of the folks in the UK are the Masters of invention and ingenuity!

 

[drythropple]

not sure about that, I will come up with something though

 

[Matt_Jr]

What about having them just throw in a couple briquettes of charcoal used for grilling?

 

[blunosr]

I've seen one of these in action. I think it was a youtube link on the Old Wood-Working Machines (OWWM) - Welcome site. It was an old machine with a blade that oscillated up and down, fairly rapidly, but slow enough you could move the piece of wood under it. It was dangerous, but as long as you remember not to put your hand on top of the piece of wood... gotta be smarter than the wood...

I think with a see-saw type blade setup, and either a slow motor, or a 3phase motor on a VFD, you could make one up quite easily. I seem to recall that the one I have seen had a flywheel running the oscillator.

Maybe I'll make one too...

Bye for now,

Troy Boyd

 

[Scotty370]

Lately I've resigned my self to using the manufactured wax-type, fireplace logs. Cut them up like a loaf of bread, and use one 'slice' per fire.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Saw a rotary splitter on youtube the other day on a 1 ton truck axle. They has the spiral on on side and the other side they had abot a 10 to 12 inch pipe cut like a rorary Cam. There was a rest on the bottom of the machine and on the cam it had a small wedge to split the pole. A small 4 or 5 inch diameter pole was put in it and fed through it reaqlly fractured and splinterd it. I have an old small punch press I got at an auction to get the table off of. I thought about locking the clutch on it and using the 4 inch stroke to run a small busting shear to feed slabs or poles into it.
YouTube - Wood splitter NEW VIDEO

I have seen pictures of old square balers that had a wedge welded to the plunger an had a plate welded over the the bale chamber. THey let the pto build up momentum on the flyweel then drop logs into it. It busts them and drpos them out the sides. A man in one of the issues left the side open and the bottom to and fed slabs in the side to bust them up for kindling.

At work the cabinet shop chunks out bundles of alder strips from the plant into the landfill we run. I load a few loads to bring home and cut for kindling so my machine got put on hold.

 

[kyspartan]

SCHEPPACH 6 WAY SPLITTER HEAD, KINDLING MAKER on eBay (end time 08-Feb-10 19:37:09 GMT)

if you have a splitter allready this could work

 

[spo307]

could you make a 6 way wedge for a log splitter, splitting smaller logs into 6 pieces at once

SORRY DIDNT SEE THE POST ABOVE TILL AFTER i POSTED

 

[studor]

What about a multi bladed device to hang on the end of a log splitter or bolt to the wedge? Instead of a four way, say an eight or ten way!
Oops --great minds think alike or fools seldom differ

 

[glastron23]

take a look at this one... YouTube - Wood processor ZA 160