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There has been lots of posts on the Forum claiming you can get a good return on processing Arb. waste.

 

Would anyone care to comment on how long it would take them to process the average heap of Arb. Waste into 10M3 of split logs and naming the particular make of splitter that they have?

 

By Arb. Waste I mean the usual 4' diameter rings down to the smaller 6" rings and all the ugly rings where branch unions once were.

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There has been lots of posts on the Forum claiming you can get a good return on processing Arb. waste.

 

Would anyone care to comment on how long it would take them to process the average heap of Arb. Waste into 10M3 of split logs and naming the particular make of splitter that they have?

 

By Arb. Waste I mean the usual 4' diameter rings down to the smaller 6" rings and all the ugly rings where branch unions once were.

 

Day and a half with a 13ton riko petrol splitter

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Ok, so we will agree a day is 8 working hours, so 0.833m3 / hr.

 

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may of got this wrong, I was going by the fact that I can split 5 loads a day (and deliver them) a day easily. So a day to do your figures can be achieved with my splitter. This includes dinner and a little nap in the afternoon,sorry powernap.

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Arb waste takes forever to process, so long in fact that I doubt you could buy it in and make money on it. When its your own by product thats different.

 

I think the key is to try and separate it out in the yard so that you have a pile of thin stuff that doesn't need split, just cut. A pile of processor stuff. A pile of rings that are processor sized. a pile of rings that are over sized and over sized timber. This isn't easy but it does speed things up.

 

As for timings we can do a cube in 5 mins with the processor being fed with rings and lengths simultaneously. on the other hand the oversized stuff takes ages..

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I think the key is to try and separate it out in the yard so that you have a pile of thin stuff that doesn't need split, just cut. A pile of processor stuff. A pile of rings that are processor sized. a pile of rings that are over sized and over sized timber. This isn't easy but it does speed things ..

 

 

This is exactly how I used to do it

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Ok, so we will agree a day is 8 working hours, so 0.833m3 / hr.

 

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yes i would also agree with that" & with a home made 11hp 30 ton ish splitter with the engine plodding uses about 5ltrs a day petrol and all arbwaste rings upto 4ft die and some of its really tough to chomp up so i just slice it up with the chainsaw smaller etc then use it on my own fire as the knotty stuff burns really well

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