TR70 branch logger at APF

[Buzzsurgeon]

£2895 + vat from Welmac UK Ltd: DuraTech and Haybuster Main Dealers - Home Page

[armchairarborist]

looks dangerous to me, no stopping that beast, it would need bits adding to be marketed in this country, the bagged product is fine, i know lots of people with small stoves/chimnea's that would buy small lumps in bags. could do with spitting chip/leaves one way and firewood the other way..

[dangerous brian]

The price aint bad wouldnt take much time to make that back,it didnt look any more dangerous than a chipper,youd need to do a bit of research first but i recon it could be a good investment.

[armchairarborist]

not dangerous then haha, just didnt see any stop buttons or bars..

[Buzzsurgeon]

I did think about stop bars, but I suppose it only the same as using a gravity fed chipper?? Think if it took 10 inch timber and blew it into the back of yer tranny!

[dangerous brian]

My background is in the granite trade massive spinning razor sharp discs no guards or ppe just a wee bit of common scence.

[clueless]

personally i think its great, but yes very limited.

 

in my case, we have 25acres of woodland which has been unmanaged for years so there is little quality in there and the timber that is needing thinned is quite thin itself. some of it is too small for the processor, and we dont have a chipper, but we do have a woodfuel heating system.

 

if i bought this, all my little brash piles could get used as fuel, and i wouldnt have to worry about getting a chipper and a means to burn chip.

 

ok so theres still a few issues regarding H&S and also the maintenance/life expectancy of the machine but if it does have CE marking i may look at getting one.

 

i would question the marketability of the product it produces - people want to see 'logs' on their fire (and gifts on the tree as cliff says) but in a situation like mine it fills a gap.

[csservices]

Could be used for converting hedgelaying brash read for charcoaling, if you did the charcoal in small drums like I do, would save burning up brash and add value to the job, in reality I'd probably end up with a big stack of bags of tiny logs and never get round to charcoaling it

[woodworm]

end product could be good for people with log burners who like tiny logs. cant se what else though really. im sure you would be able to sell the end product easily though. im surprised i mssed that at the show. where abouts was it?

 

 

It was behind the chainsaw carving area.

[renewablejohn]

Great little tool and quite cheap. From my point of view it produces exactly the chunky type of fuel required to feed into a gasifier. Safety wise it reminded me of a chuck and duck chipper because the rate of infeed is so quick. The upside being that you could get an awful lot of production done in a day. The downside was the maximum branch thickness of 60mm which might prove restrictive on coppice work.