my new Firewood toys

[JohnDeere4300]

Look and see if you have an older saw with a top loading fuel and oil reservoir. :thumbsup:

No, I don't have one with the oil & fuel on top!... And I already understand why you told me that!

I'll have to come up with something, Because I do plan to build one!

Thanks!!

Bill

I sure can't blame you for getting the processor. I usually burn five cords but this year I decided to try to get two years ahead, so I can let the wood dry properly. I put about 1/3 to 1/2 of my free time towards this and as of now I have about 12 cords all cut down and 4-5 of that is split. I started with zero at the beginning of December and it feels like it has been a long season. If I had to do 20 each year no way would I be able to find the time without a machine like that. You have my respect.

I'd like to get me a processor!!... I would be years ahead!!!

I've been cutting around 17 cords a year ever since I bought my new Hot Blast wood-stove in 2009!... But I don't burn 17 cords a year... Right now I'm one year ahead on firewood!!, and all I have is a couple chainsaws, tractor, log-splitter and a 5x10 firewood trailer that I built!

I also built a large wood-shed in 2009, But the worse part with it is I have to hand stack the wood, and on the front of the shed I have to use a ladder!

Last year I started putting extra firewood on ''pallets'' and that helped A LOT!!!... I tried putting the pallets of wood in the shed, But in the rear of it I couldn't stack pallets on top of each other!

The worse part about cutting firewood is ''handling the firewood'' after it's split!... Including myself, I think everyone tries to find a way to ''cut down'' on handling the firewood so much... And I think pallets is the best way so far!

Just have an empty pallet next to the wood-splitter and stack the wood on it and be done with it!!!

Here's some pictures from 2010.

Bill

 

[tbutman]

It's alot easier with the tanks on the top of the saw but most use the side tank saws and have wing nuts to unhook the saw to fuel it up. Of coarse top is alot better.

 

[tbutman]

Some nice firewood right there, clearly you take pride in what you do.

 

[GrizzyDan]

Love that pic of firewood with all the flat land and trees in the background. My Grandfather has a wooded area like that next to his house, all the trees are limbed up quite a ways so the sun shines down on it all, yet he has his firewood stacked inbetween them which is pretty handy.

More production requires bigger toys, a processor can't be used optimally unless you have a tractor that can handle everything you can throw at it =) However an atv or truck with a log arch + peavy and a log lift on the processor does come close.. But one of those skidder attachments for the 3ph like previously posted here is ideal.. I love seeing 4+ logs attached to the back of a tractor! and forks and or thumb attached to the bucket.

Time will tell, yet I'm not really sure that the time I'm spending in the garage lately fabricating tools to help speed along the process of producing firewood will actually put more cordwood on the ground by years end then if I would have spent all that garage time out in the field instead.. Yet I have to try.. right?

Now that I have a tractor, it's become more viable to use limb wood as you mentioned to help stop erosion while creating more flatland. My only worry there is that I'm creating a termite farm that migrate once I stop feeding it =)

 

[tbutman]

That skidder attachment for the 3 ph is a log arch. My father bought it back in the 70's It's a Norse and you don't see them that often. I have replaced the clutch a few years back and had such a hard time finding one that I bought two, probably a good move on my part as they don't make parts for them anymore. I must say the things a MONSTER at pulling logs. The winch is crazy strong! That land (if your talking in my pics) is land we cleared ourselves and can remember removing every single big rock from that field. termites aren't a big problem in my neck of the woods. Though I have seen 1 here but never in their natural habitat.

 

[turnkey4099]

That's nice!!!... I really like that!!.. I hate cutting the small limbs up, and that looks like something I need to build!!!

I do have a couple old chainsaws that I quit using when I bought my new Husqvarna 455... On both of the old saws I had to take the chain-brake off and a few other parts... They would make great saws for the ''limb processor''!!!

Can you make a video when you start cutting firewood ??

Bill

Or my "poor man's version":

Loaded up:

Cut up:

folds flat:

I hate cutting, loading, unloading the small stuff. I cut branches/limbs from about 7" on down to a max of 7' lengths and haul home that way. Takes longer to load it up than it does to cut. I spaced the uprights 16" apart.

the "U"s are 14" betweent the uprights and 14" tall. They should have been taller and the14" was to fit a 20" bar - it could also have been 16".

Jarru L

 

[Artisan]

tbutman's semi-automated limb processor has really got me thinking.
That method is just beautiful my man, GREAT job.

Yes top loading fuel and oil OR
electric might be sweet. Also a large saw is not really that necessary
either. I see that larger saw has 2 bolts that might make the
mounting a little more solid but I am sure there is a work around.

I keep thinking electric though. I foresee perhaps maybe
even a simple foot switch.


How about line up 8-12 saws and just drop a limb on top and out the bottom
drops an armfull in 3 seconds! Hmmmm? I gotta get a pile O electric saws
cheap somewhere!

 

[tbutman]

I keep thinking electric though. I foresee perhaps maybe
even a simple foot switch.


How about line up 8-12 saws and just drop a limb on top and out the bottom
drops an armfull in 3 seconds! Hmmmm? I gotta get a pile O electric saws
cheap somewhere! [/QUOTE]

Both Ideas are Stellar!! LOL

 

[Artisan]

I know it makes me laugh too BUT there eniterly plausible...

Ha! I am just not ready to unleash my processor and conveyor system on this board yet. The OP did well, mine is on the same level. BUT BETTER HA! Of corse I am prejudice...:laughing:

I can't start another project till the GrappleOmatic is done.

 

[tbutman]

here's a link to a few other different limb processors.Can Cervera - Montseny - Firewood processing on chainsaw bench - YouTube

Logmaster Saw Horse - YouTube

Bulk firewood processing with a Husqvarna 570 chainsaw - YouTube

I need a grapple on my bucket as well. Ordered a tie rod cylinder today for it before I realized I don't have hardly any steel left to play with. I don't really have the tools to cleanly cut the parts out anyways, so ... IDK what to do to get rolling on this. May just have to go out and buy one. Found a kit on ebay that sells just the cnc cut pieces for $160 and bought it straight out. I have to weld them together and provide my own ram and plumb it to my hydraulics but That's what I wanted anyway!!