firewood tumbler

[mikeyg]

anyone use a firewood tumbler or have any other way of riddleing the cr4p out your firewood before sale. if so did you make it, buy it or convert it.

pictures would be awesome as i'm thinking of making one. ta

[Mortimer Firewood]

Do you process straight into bags?

[mikeyg]

no. just in a 80-100 ton big pile and now all the barks come off and looks not see good. i am wanting to riddle out the fines and put the logs into potatoe boxs.

[robbo 110]

what machinary have you got available? small 360 bucket with the bottom gassed out an replaced with round bars or similar... small enouigh for the fines to fall out, big enough to hold the logs, easy to shake it on a 360 aswell!!

[Mortimer Firewood]

If your going to go to the trouble of getting rid of the bits you need to put them in bags or potato boxes as if you do it in a big pile when there moved again they will create bits as they rub together. If you look at the posch set up they come out of the screen and go in to big nets that are wrapped around tight to stop movement, the set up they do looks real good but very expensive. Sorry dont know how to do a link.

[Alycidon]

I have seen a flat grid made up of metal bars about 2 inches apart, set in an incline the logs slide down the bars the crap falls through.

 

Bark comes off when the wood dries, a tumbler wont fetch that off as its still green when you process it.

 

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[Tyz05]

Got me thinking. If you got access to potatoe boxes. Could you use an old potatoe riddler? This could then load boxes as well.Or similar? Just a thought really. No idea of costs.

Edited November 19, 2011 by Tyz05

[Goaty]

Sugar beet/fodder beet bucket on a front loader.

[shendy]

Would a sugar beet cleaner be too big?

[nick channer]

i've got a large sugar beet riddle bucket that i use to move logs from a to b... it doesnt work all that great to be honest.. not unless you put small amount in at a time and shake it around well [which doesnt do pins and bushes any good on forklift].. it does work well for what i bought it for which is sorting the pile ash out on fire.. all ash falls through a treat leaving un burnt logs etc...