Chinese Processor £1500??

[muttley9050]

I have dropped a lot of trees on my property and have spent maybe 10 days grinding them out with a Rayco Junior. It’s a cracking machine but I made a deal to swap a days milling for 2 days hire if the machine. I set this deal up when I first got the Bandsaw and needed to learn “on the job”. Now I’ve got hang of things I feel the exchange is heavily in the Rayco owners favour. Anyway, I still have 20 x 20” dbh stumps and another 20 x 6-12” stumps to grind out. That’s a weeks work with the Rayco. (I think) 6 days = 3 days Bandsaw work = £1300 I could have earned. That’s well on the way to 60% of the Stump Grinder and I’ve a bunch more to fell after that lot. So just makes sense to me to buy my own. 

Makes sense. What kind of trees you got there?

[trigger_andy]

16 minutes ago, muttley9050 said:

18 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

I have dropped a lot of trees on my property and have spent maybe 10 days grinding them out with a Rayco Junior. It’s a cracking machine but I made a deal to swap a days milling for 2 days hire if the machine. I set this deal up when I first got the Bandsaw and needed to learn “on the job”. Now I’ve got hang of things I feel the exchange is heavily in the Rayco owners favour. Anyway, I still have 20 x 20” dbh stumps and another 20 x 6-12” stumps to grind out. That’s a weeks work with the Rayco. (I think) 6 days = 3 days Bandsaw work = £1300 I could have earned. That’s well on the way to 60% of the Stump Grinder and I’ve a bunch more to fell after that lot. So just makes sense to me to buy my own. 

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Makes sense. What kind of trees you got there?

It’s just a wee patch. But was choke full of all sorts. At the back someone planted rows of spruce then beech then spruce then beech etc etc. DF, Scots Pine, Larch.Way to much Cherry, couple of oak, bunch of Birch, some Ash, munch of Sycamore. It’s more usable now. 
 

 

[peatff]

They look good if you can pick and choose your wood to process all to the same size and grain. My splitter is handy because it can work horizontal or vertical and I can split the gnarly stuff better positioning it by hand but one of those looks good for higher volume work.