Branch logger on brash

[Bolt]

 

This is a typical cutting mechanism.  As I’m sure you know, it doesn’t have blades mounted on the face of a ‘flywheel’  like a conventional chipper.
 

The flywheel ( or in some cases, really heavy pulley wheel) is mounted on one of the shafts in the style of a vintage stationary engine flywheel.

 

 

 

[spandit]

3 hours ago, PeteB said:

I'm intrigued, have you a link?

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Mine is the Remet CNC R120, made in Poland. They're very simple machines

[GarethM]

Badged in Poland, just a reduction gearbox with blades.

 

I have memories of a version that used a gearbox and a woodchipper style flywheel that turns slowly to shears and roll the branch as it cut. Think it was posch or remet, typically over engineered and expensive 

[spandit]

1 minute ago, GarethM said:

Badged in Poland, just a reduction gearbox with blades.

 

So the cutting mechanism is made in PRC or somewhere? Still a pretty simple piece and the steel is really thick - glad I had a tractor to lift it with

[GarethM]

Wasn't knocking it, just economic reality.

[Bolt]

I assumed they were still manufactured in Poland.  They are certainly a pretty traditional Eastern European design.

 

 

[spandit]

Wherever it's made, it seems pretty well made. Mine does have a large pulley as a flywheel. Not sure I'm actually running it fast enough - but 1900rpm on my tractor (for a 540rpm PTO) makes it sound like it's screaming

 

The smaller bits would probably be best burnt in a boiler at high temperatures - might experiment with burning them in a cage in the wood stove. Otherwise, they can just rot down and nourish the soil and I'll salvage the bigger chunks

[scbk]

8 hours ago, GarethM said:

I have memories of a version that used a gearbox and a woodchipper style flywheel that turns slowly to shears and roll the branch as it cut. Think it was posch or remet, typically over engineered and expensive 

Was it the Bilke?

 

 

 

 

[GarethM]

Just now, scbk said:

Was it the Bilke?

 

 

That's the beasty I was thinking of, always thought the firewood it produced was garbage in the videos.

 

If I wasn't in a smoke control zone, I'd be buying a cheap polish woodchip boiler and cutting out all the hassle 🙂

[spandit]

2 minutes ago, scbk said:

Was it the Bilke?

 

 

 

 

That's awesome but probably less effective on smaller stuff