What would you cut this up with ?

[gensetsteve]

I have 34 tonne of this to dice up for firewood next season could be more in future, Oak ash and sycamore. I have an old 039 and not so old 039 I need to keep the noise down would anyone advise buying a new larger saw or would u just get it done with the 039 and look harder in future for the 12" stuff. The bigger stuff is 24-30" in diameter.

[combined tree services]

i would go for a bigger saw and forget the 12 inch timber - we have found bigger timber much easyer to work . maybe an ms441 ?

[gensetsteve]

i would go for a bigger saw and forget the 12 inch timber - we have found bigger timber much easyer to work . maybe an ms441 ?

 

I have found a similar experience. large timber u seem to get more logs out although a bit more work. 14" timber is too big for our machine and always seems to come with a load of 3" twigs.

[twistedhicap]

can you not cut to lentghs and split them into processor sized billets?

[WoodED]

ms460, or a ms650/660 if you have the cash to splash,,, still keep the 039 for the smaller stuff

[richy_B]

In the last 6 months I've had a ms362 with a 18" bar and I've been very impressed with it. I am sure that with a 25" it would be good for this application.

[jpbeaver]

i think a 25" bar on a 362 is gonna be sluggish as hell. get a proper size saw, ms460 up.

[nick channer]

i bought 6 artic loads firewood over summer... all were 26 tons... 2 loads were real big stuff.. some up to 30inch's diameter the other 4 loads were all processable sizes... the bigger stuff we cut with MS441's amd 660's and split and we got another 5 loads extra per artic load compared with smaller stuff.. and it was £5 ton cheaper to buy..

[WoodED]

i bought 6 artic loads firewood over summer... all were 26 tons... 2 loads were real big stuff.. some up to 30inch's diameter the other 4 loads were all processable sizes... the bigger stuff we cut with MS441's amd 660's and split and we got another 5 loads extra per artic load compared with smaller stuff.. and it was £5 ton cheaper to buy..

 

if u ever need a hand spliting give me a shout

[nick channer]

if u ever need a hand spliting give me a shout

 

no worries mate.. will do..