Which processor for firewood from arb waste

[Woodworks]

I can't comment directly on arb waste but our farm hedgrow trees are not nice neat poles. Our new Farmi has no problems dispatching them. Having looked closely at many processors before purchasing the thing that appears to slow them down the most is logs not sitting properly in the splitting chamber. With awkward shaped wood I can't see a perfect solution for this so some hand re adjustment of the wood seems inevitable. What I like about the Farmi is the speed of access to the splitting chamber to adjust these difficult pieces as there are no guards over it. My second choice would have been the Dalen but price was a factor and the Dalen was a fair bit more but looked very well made.

[gensetsteve]

I can't comment directly on arb waste but our farm hedgrow trees are not nice neat poles. Our new Farmi has no problems dispatching them. Having looked closely at many processors before purchasing the thing that appears to slow them down the most is logs not sitting properly in the splitting chamber. With awkward shaped wood I can't see a perfect solution for this so some hand re adjustment of the wood seems inevitable. What I like about the Farmi is the speed of access to the splitting chamber to adjust these difficult pieces as there are no guards over it. My second choice would have been the Dalen but price was a factor and the Dalen was a fair bit more but looked very well made.

 

wp 36 Good machine JimE was good enough to demo it to us a few weeks ago at Riko. As been said not too many guards and I am sure the splitter has the power to cope with orrible stuff. Its probably half the price of a Dallen.

[Tom D]

Processors can "feel" slow when doing arb waste because of the awkward shapes and having to stop to sort things out regularly, however if you look at the end result you will produce way more with a processor. We used to use a fuelwood 16ton dual speed PTO splitter, which as splitters go is pretty good, and has a nice fast stroke, however we now have a posch 350 processor which will produce more than twice as many logs in a day. we have a posch 30ton horisontal splitter which deals with the big stuff and produces billets which we can then put through the processor.

For arb waste its important to get a processor with a decent tonnage push, some of the wee ones only have 4-6 ton, the posch has 11 ton which seems pretty good.

[Theocus]

I own a Dalen 2052 , that thing was made for arb waste, 6-12 tonne force, 20 inch capacity and built like a tank. Its the smallest in their range and the others look great.

[william petts]

I have a dalen 2060 and we mainly process arb waste and it's great, the other thing I'd say is that not all arb waste is well waste, we get plenty of nice strait log logs come in which is just like cordwood, I find it quicker than someone on a chainsaw and splitter, also if there's logs that are to big and awkward for the processes I use the chainsaw to ring the logs up and then use the dalen just as a splitter which Is even quicker especially when I have someone passing me the rings, only problem with arb waste is you will get those logs that are dirty and may have nails in but I siluppose u have to take the rough with the smooth, quite literally; )