any good towable self-powered firewood processors?

[Rob Stringer]

hello all, i'm considering getting a firewood processor that I can tow behind a car/van to deal with cordwood stacked at rideside in the woods. Have been using hydraulic log-splitter/axe and chainsaw up to this point which works fine but cutting tons of billets into logs with a chainsaw gets a bit tiring and it seems to take hours to fill my trailer. Have seen that there are basic processors such as the hakki pilke hawk and japa 300 available which could make lighter work of it and was wondering if anyone has experience of these and whether they are any good/worth the cost? As mentioned I have a log splitter which can deal with anything too big/knotty/crooked for the processor but thought maybe a processor would save some time/strain and i'd then have more time for other work. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Rob S

[Frankie Lawrence]

If your considering geting one, get one youll never regret it we used to do it the old fashioned way til last year and its amazing now we just cant see how we done it and struggled through it.

 

as for self propeelled and towing I realy dont know im afriad only ever seen pto driven tractors. tractors can move them around with 3 point linakge

Edited August 22, 2010 by Frankie Lawrence

[stigwood]

Hakki Pilki are bringing a new product to the market 2xs appears to be a 1x37 on a two wheel trailer might be what your looking for

[Big Bolt]

Jappa do a good towable machine try , www. fuelwood.co.uk or best bet get down to the APF and see them all together

[tommer9]

Just saws have just sent out some info on a hudson machine that has come out. It looks pretty good......16" capacity, hyd winch to load itself, towable 2, 4, or 6 way split with 25 ton ram. Should be able to see one at the APF.

[dent]

bindenberger do some ice towable ones but i'm guessing they will be alot of money

and probally need a mog to tow them as well

SSP 520 - Firewood Processor

[Chris Sheppard]

Rob, if you're coming to the APF, pop and have a look at the Farmi one we have - if it had been available when I bought my hawk I'd have had one as it's seriously fast and has things like powered in feed, slewing elevator and two speed for not much more money than the Hawk or Japa 100. There's also a log loader available for it so you don't have to lift the big bits.

 

If I was going back to it, it's the machine I'd be going for.

[Rob Stringer]

is it towable by a car/van? Will you have one on display at bentley woodfair?

[tommer9]

Farmi.....great gear...

[Chris Sheppard]

yep, only weighs around 600kg as towable, even with the log loader.

 

We will have one at Bentley, not sure which version (whether PTO or the petrol/PTO towable one) but the base machine is the same on all of them.

 

If you're passing Kingsley any time, let us know a few days before and you could probably see one working if you wanted to.