Cutting rounds for firewood company

[Donnie]

3 hours ago, doobin said:

If he won’t buy a digger and grab then he’s only playing at the firewood game frankly. 
 

tell him to cut it himself

He has just bought probably another 10 artic loads of oversize hardwood. Some of it's disgusting but yeah. Good with the bad and all... easy day just cutting logs. 

[Donnie]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

 

 

That was for a good mate we do quite a bit of stuff for.

He supplied digger and operator, and the timber was in decent stacks.

He also covered our fuel.

 

Macca and me charged him £200 each for a leisurely day, but got through some timber.

Tonnage wise I wouldn’t like to guess, but wouldn’t have been anywhere near 20 tonnes each!

 

Definitely gave our backs a day off though.

Aye I'm about 240 after you take off my diesel and petrol etc but that is grand. 
 

He probably won't buy a grab so I won't be that lucky. I'd just like some idea just to make it easier. He has a forklift to clear me out afterwards,

I was thinking of 3 logs oversize as a base work bench, firewood lengths going the opposite way and cut away and throw off to the side when in the middle. 
 

Was going to suggest to him I could make a forklift tyne attachment angles plough out of H beam for clearing out timber. Right now he just uses a log as a plough and it is shite

[Donnie]

This is the average size of timber I'm ringing up. 

Last photo is about a 10th of what he has in the yard now, and is getting more

Edited August 5, 2023 by JDon

[Mark Bolam]

You definitely need some mechanical help there Jake!

[Donnie]

Just now, Mark Bolam said:

You definitely need some mechanical help there Jake!

At the moment I just cut and he dozes it with the forklift. Love the graft but I ain't lifting nothing. 😂 I just cut that's all. 

[Dan Maynard]

What happens to the rounds you've cut? Are they manhandled through a splitter? Anything like a cutting fixture will mean the rounds have to be moved away, whereas when you cut from a digger with grab the logs just stay where they drop.

 

I'm imagining you could make a kind of cutting bench from rounds, bring lengths with the forklift and cut till it's covered and then tip some across to make a new bench.

[maybelateron]

One advantage for me is being only 5ft 5-6, I am nearer the ground. I sometimes kneel if ringing up a big limb or trunk. Still nicer when we have the minidigger on site with the thumb👍

[Donnie]

4 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

What happens to the rounds you've cut? Are they manhandled through a splitter? Anything like a cutting fixture will mean the rounds have to be moved away, whereas when you cut from a digger with grab the logs just stay where they drop.

 

I'm imagining you could make a kind of cutting bench from rounds, bring lengths with the forklift and cut till it's covered and then tip some across to make a new bench.

Leave them where they land really in this case. Normally pile more lengths on top of the rounds  (not my idea its a pain in the arse) then trip over them all day basically

[Donnie]

On 05/08/2023 at 12:10, maybelateron said:

One advantage for me is being only 5ft 5-6, I am nearer the ground. I sometimes kneel if ringing up a big limb or trunk. Still nicer when we have the minidigger on site with the thumb

Edited August 6, 2023 by JDon

[topchippyles]

Surly you are doing all the cutting so what ever makes life easier for you jake. Good boss should be more than happy to keep a good worker going smoothly more productive at the end of the day.

Edited August 5, 2023 by topchippyles