Anyone buy in timber for firewood??

[Mike Hill]

Here in Norway every second farmer has a wood processor as dried wood goes for between £4 and 9£ a sack!

One outfit drives in into Norway dried and sacked from Lativia and Lithuainia as the labour cost is so much less there.The favoured wood is Birch,we just give away logs mostly as nobody will pay for anything that isn't cut,split dried and sacked.

[mark_j]

I like the look of that Timberwolf TW 7, what kind of price are they? not cheap i bet. Its got me thinking, i wonder if my engineer friend could make a similiar device for me with some mods, if i could power the hydarulic ram with one of my tractors i wouldnt need the honda engine or the hydraulic oil resevoir because that would be contained within the tractor, as long as you had the big ram sliding on a bed, and a sharp knife to split the logs and two spool valves on the tractor it should work. Very interesting, do any companies make something simliar to what i have described??

 

Thanks Mark

[MattyF]

they do mark theres loads on ebay priced around £500-600

[mark_j]

they do mark theres loads on ebay priced around £500-600

 

Thanks

 

Will have a look when i get home, cant view ebay from work, i see there is a tw 3 which is pto driven, i wonder why they dont just run off the hydraulics though, im very interested, we have this mc connell sawbench

 

 

i know someone who has another one that they are selling, was going to buy it but may invest in a splitter!! whats the ones on ebay like?? anyone got an equivelent one?? are they strong and do they last??

 

Thanks mark

[MattyF]

gnarly bits of kit those mc connels but the make there money.......might of jumped the gun a bit there mark as i can only find 1 or 2 on ebay at the moment to be honest ive never used one only seem them working they are not super fast but get the job done but i would maybe worry about stressing the tractor hydrolics to much..the type wich have there own hydrolics running off the pto i have used loads and they are powerfull and fast only problem is they are atleast twice the price

[mark_j]

Better picture of our mc connel sawbench

 

 

This is one of our other saws, its a vinatge circa 1940's ferguson cordwood saw, as the name suggests its only good for cutting lengths of cordwood, still a very good saw though

 

[bill]

you need alot of space for logs tho. i havent got a big yard.

[Peter]

What about a screw type splitter? http://www.hydrocut.co.uk/hy-crack.htm

[mark_j]

What about a screw type splitter? http://www.hydrocut.co.uk/hy-crack.htm

 

 

Them screw types are ok but involve more handling. The idea of a ram pushing onto cutting knives appeals to me, not sure yet whether i want one on the 3 point hitch or a trailed one with wheels, something i need to look into. The Mc connel saw is fantastic but with big slabs your handling them 3-4 times, i beleive with a splitter each piece pushes the other lot forward, so you dont have to rehandle and you can incorporate a conveyor etc. am i right??

 

good conversation though, something which interests me aswell.keep it up

[Lee Winger]

I make plenty without em, and don't have a cabstar.

 

Hahaha..like it!