Processing big timber

[Craobh]

surely 30-40" butts should be milled in to boards. it looks like you could get some nice wood out of trees like that.

 

why turn 1-2 hundred years if growth in to firewood???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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True but depends how they been originally cut buddy

[Iain H]

I have a ryetec 22t 2.5 metre splitter with 4 way wedge, if they are reasonably straight you can quarter them then they will fit through the processor no problem.

[csservices]

Few years ago I bought some big oak all 3-4ft butts, we just ringed them up and then used vertical splitter, two of us could fill a 4 and a 6 ton corn trailer in a day going steady, not sure what m3 that equates to but from memory there was 40 ton I bought and think it tool us about 4 days to shift it all

[Nat]

We spent a while processing some big stuff (upto 42") into logs.

Mega hard work.

Ringed them up then backed the 3pt linkage mounted splitter under them and split away.

If they were too heavy to move even when halved I'd hold them in the splitter and then rip them in half with a chainsaw.

 

The biggest rings were split on the ground with wedges and a lunatic swinging a sledgehammer.

(He was a bodybuilder and was wearing his slippers at the time!)

[gensetsteve]

Few years ago I bought some big oak all 3-4ft butts, we just ringed them up and then used vertical splitter, two of us could fill a 4 and a 6 ton corn trailer in a day going steady, not sure what m3 that equates to but from memory there was 40 ton I bought and think it tool us about 4 days to shift it all

 

the corn trailers I have owned the 6 tonne was 6 cu metres and the 3 tonne 3 cu metres. So I guess you processed 10 cu metres in a day. Two of us process 20" stuff with a vertical splitter in 6 hrs we get 8 cu metres done and stop for dinner.Our 20" stuff is alot easier than your 3ft stuff. Big rings are hard work.

[toms firewod]

i have a tree as big as that and i rang around about milling and nobody wanted to know they said the cost of getting it would mean that it wouldnt be worth it as they buy there wood in from abroad and it is worth more as fire wood

[Drayton tree care]

We use a cone splitter to bring them down to size then we will process them

[Logsnstuff]

Hi we would ring it then put it through the vertical splitter.

 

I'd go this route also, we have a 2.5m horizontal but the majority of wood shatters this way and makes for pretty ugly logs vertical 99% of the time.

[mendiplogs]

Send a pm to mendiplogs on here.....He likes big butts

 

HI EGGS your right i like big butts as small ones get nicked jon