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4-5 foot horizontal log splitter with a chop saw on it ?


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I have a dragon D20 biomass boiler and I'm sick of hand balling huge lumps of wood into it because I'm eventually going to do my back in so I like the idea of bundling it into billets and strapping them up and loading a bundle in with the jcb but my local contractor has a posch splitter which only does 1 meter lengths and there still to chainsaw into those lengths. A bundle of billets at a meter long won't fill my boiler very much so that's why Id make a bundling machine that wud do 4 or 5 foot lengths and get more like 1.5 cube of wood into a bundle instead of the usual 1 cube. So ideally I'd load a 10 foot log onto a platform which comes along and gets chopped at 5 foot then gets split then gets loaded into the bundler.

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Both posch and binderberger upright splitters have 1.1m capacity standard, and the horizontal models have 1.25m cap. standard. If you buy new you can specify additional lengths I think it's in steps of 200mm. Riko is same I think. So you could spec a 1.5 or 1.7m machine, I bet for a 1.7m horizontal it would be more than 10k.

 

As far as chop saws, I saw a picture of one on a binderberger machine, but I reckon this would double price. So it depends on how hungry your boiler is/ how bad your back!? To place a 1.5m log correctly in a horizontal is itself a fight sometimes, the chainsawing to length is the easy bit!

 

A 1.35m upright might cost £4000.

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