Anyone using the smaller processors - Jappa 305 / 315 for example?

[Justme]

5 hours ago, Woodworks said:

The Farmi is pretty good with arb waste. The old ones with no guarding over the splitter chamber even more so as theres always logs to adjust. Filled 19 vented bags in a day from pure arb  waste for a guy some years ago but he does his own now. 

The newer one with the right bolt removed means you can leave the guard up.

Or so I am told.

Re doing arb waste with the Farmi.

I did a job recently with my son.

We did two 3 day blocks.

On each block we did 74m3 all hand loaded short lengths.

 

Best day was 30m3 but we also have a day when the clients loader we were using suffered a puncture so we could not move the boxes for a few hours so that dragged the average down.

[Justme]

8 hours ago, maybelateron said:

I have often thought of investing in a small processor, but can't convince myself it is worth it for our domestic arb waste. We use a lot of logs ourselves and sell the rest. When do you ever see a video of a processor with awkward gnarly timber going through it. 

We use a venom 22ton splitter (can be horizontal or vertical) and split rings and 20 inch lengths. The 20 inch lengths then get sawn using the pto sawbench. I think this is about the most efficient way we can manage to process timber of the sort we bring in from domestic work.

 

Hire one & see the difference in output & physical work level.

 

Here are some pics of recent jobs I have been on.

 

But do watch out some especially the bigger ones are not suited to doing arb waste / arisings. 

 

[swinny]

Optimum size timber for processor i say is 8-12".... straight 4 way split a lot faster..... smaller diameter just cut and left whole and larger just split in half take a lot longer to fill the crates..... Then the 14" timber that once through the 4 way needs the top parts going back through as too big. 

 

The joys of splitting logs.