A double pallet works MUCH better

[difflock]

see photo.

Seriously steadier than a single pallet.

Guessing a good 3 cube (plus)

next project, as soon as this almost finished billeted heap is exhausted.

IS my bundler.

Will take loads o photos of such contraptions down at the Irish show this weekend.

PS

Despite some weeks of heavy rain with lying puddles.

Randomly thrown, not stacked, and all winter uncovered pile is surprisingly dry, only the few with grass growing up through them round the edges are wet at all.

Simply stack them on a pallet and leave to dry.

PPs

With 2 men feeding the cross cut saw and the cut sticks dissappearing up the conveyor it is a seriously fast way to convert timber.

Edited May 7, 2013 by difflock

[nepia]

Good stuff. I'm going to stack criss cross this year but along a row of 8-10 pallets. I'll need that many as my cord isn't anything like as perfect as yours.

Hopefully the open stack will give faster drying too.

[Brett]

kin yi drive that aboot, withoot it collapsing in a heap?

[nepia]

kin yi drive that aboot, withoot it collapsing in a heap?

 

 

Ha ha. If you try please film it!

[Brett]

Ha ha. If you try please film it!

 

+1

[difflock]

Sniff!

Ah kin drive it abbot on the front mounted forklift on der ould DB 1490.

an have done.

Lifted from the field, up angle-wise on to my hard-core track, back anglewise off said track and up the yard

Der front tyres get a bit sqiidgy (possibly need more than a moss-crossin 10PSI therein)

This is why (sigh!) I described it as "much steadier"

Thrown on reasonably quickly with only one or two in the pile thrown back (to stack on the top at the end)

The "ties" on the middle top help as well.

BUT

I was actually seriously surprised at how much steadier it is.

Than a single stack, which no matter the care taken was always very wobbly.

The 17 tonne splitter lives on the back for the PTO.

While the wee crawler drives the cross cut saw.

Almost perfect.

Iffen one wanted to transport furthur a rachett strap laid across the pallet first and the logs built on top then all securly rachetted down.

Would be VERY steady.

Gibber,

Mutter

an

Twitch

[difflock]

Despite the essentially random nature of the trees being split, permed with the random stacking, but then some care taken in picking 2 fatter straighter lengths for the outsides each time.

Hence the stability.

I was surprised at how the both sides stacked up side by side height wise, layer upon layer.

Over 13 rows, I built the one side, the brother built the other.

[nepia]

Sniff!

Ah kin drive it abbot on the front mounted forklift on der ould DB 1490.

an have done.

 

 

Boogga!

 

Egg on face here then, 10/10 to you; well done.

 

10psi's a bit firm for moss crossing isn't it? I've disc-harrowed with 5psi in the back tyres to minimise compaction!

[difflock]

Are you sure that was not rather the stiffiness in the sidewalls:001_tt2:, rather than the air pressure.

Or "High Volume" tyres aboot a metre wide.

Anyway

With 520's on the back an 420's on the front 10 or 12 psi is just nice.

Will pull surprising low gears "just about a hanging" before any reasonable likelyhood of getting bogged, this with the forestry trailer behind.

i.e.

She cannot pull higher gears without stalling.

[Brett]

yir brothers side looks better.