Logs or billets?

[gensetsteve]

But a huge percent of your profit goes to pay off the large and expensive machinery to keep the human touch out of the equation.

 

Yes your right you do it manually you cant do enough to earn a living you buy kit there is no profit left. The more you do the worse it gets because you need to buy cord in. I think you need to do it as a side line with arb arisings or buy standing, harvest transport process and sell 1000 tonnes.

[difflock]

My own conclusions neatly summed up.

Either on an "incidental " and cross subsidised basis as a sideline to tree surgery works.............or out and out large scale commercial basis with a business plan/known costings.

[treedweller]

This has to be the best machine for cutting billets!!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc-zrz8cBNI[/ame]

[R5log]

Log it8-10 inch and put it in a shed, load it in the winter. Easy and less handerling than billets

[difflock]

Ah Ha !

But why is he lifting the billets out of a billet bundler, before they even have been bundled?

And no bundles of billets to be seen about?

[broonie]

probably showing the posh billet stacker/bundler:)

[treedweller]

Actually i was at a show briefly on the weekend and a local tree firm had a stand with their new processor on show. It was a drum circular saw, had about 6 holes like a revolver and you load the billets in and it spins around and as the pass the blade it drops out the back onto a convayer. I'll have a dig for a video but i don't think its as good as the posch autocut

[treedweller]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZhwfftoU4]Automatische Trommelsäge SAT 4-700 - YouTube[/ame]

 

This is it

[gensetsteve]

I tried the billet idea. Seemed very slow. Ideal if you only have very large timber and are geared for splitting it. Otherwise stick with processor stuff and get a machine that will cope with at least 14" and as has been said get it straight in to 10" logs. I think the billet idea is ideal if your fire takes 3ft stuff.

[Alycidon]

Billets are where its at!

 

Get Warty our tame cow in there and she would just upset things a bit !.

 

Nice stacks, I would be proud of them.

 

A