Firewood production pics.

[ecotreecare]

After receiving a message from Tomatin Firewood, i thought i would start a thread to show some pictures of our firewood production process. please feel free to add yours, be nice to see how others do it.

[NI Tree]

how many cube a year and what is the processer

[s.varty]

Very nice set up there

[ecotreecare]

how many cube a year and what is the processer

 

Hope to do around 6000 cube this year. Its a blockbuster processor, forget the model number.

[ecotreecare]

Here is the wee loader we use to push the pile up, load logs and load the processor. Not all the gear in the yard belongs to us... its good having friends with toys

[Tomatin Firewood]

Great setup you have there. I do not have any production pictures yet as it is generally me processing! I use my Bobcat for loading my trailer and for taking timber form stacks.

 

I would love to get a timber trailer and a proper log deck rather than lifting deck (to speed things up), as well as another shed for storing all my pallets hardwood 1m3 bags in, but I need to pay off all my original purchases first!

 

Majority of my wood is softwood which I process onto concrete floor and use bobcat move wood around my shed (shed has lots of holes knocked in it to allow the glen winds through). I try to always rotate my stock alway giving customer wood from oldest heap. All my hardwood process in to bags on pallets and then tip into my tipping trailer. I try to keep my physical handling minimal.

 

In the summer before I purchased the BobcatI would tip the wood into shed with trailer and then my farmer friend would come in with JCB and bulldoze for me!

[BrendonV]

Nice pics, some nice ideas there.

 

I typically park my grapple trailer next to this tarp loaded with wood. Spin them off the trailer, cut them, then process when enough adds up. I only sell a few cords, and space is a premium back there. Still want to get a log deck sorted, but that's on the back burner.

 

I use a Super Splitter, and I traded some climbing work for that conveyor.

[rovers90]

This is my set up in its present guise. we keep moving the deck and processor around to see what works best but have come to the conclusion the shed is too long and narrow to be ideal! Yes, its great having friends with kit you can use - shed, tractors, robot, etc.

 

Nice Kenworth in the pics ecotreecare!

[Dowie]

Hi guys, some impressive set ups there for sure, Tomatin, how do you find the seasoning goes with the logs in big piles like that or is the wood already seasoned before its cut and split?

 

cheers

[farmer_ben]

Great setup you have there. I do not have any production pictures yet as it is generally me processing! I use my Bobcat for loading my trailer and for taking timber form stacks.

 

I would love to get a timber trailer and a proper log deck rather than lifting deck (to speed things up), as well as another shed for storing all my pallets hardwood 1m3 bags in, but I need to pay off all my original purchases first!

 

Majority of my wood is softwood which I process onto concrete floor and use bobcat move wood around my shed (shed has lots of holes knocked in it to allow the glen winds through). I try to always rotate my stock alway giving customer wood from oldest heap. All my hardwood process in to bags on pallets and then tip into my tipping trailer. I try to keep my physical handling minimal.

 

In the summer before I purchased the BobcatI would tip the wood into shed with trailer and then my farmer friend would come in with JCB and bulldoze for me!

 

Very interested in knowing how you get on with the bobcat mate? I have tried to find decent loader tractor for a while but i dont really need the tractor just a loader really and bobcat may work well.