making my own wood processor advice needed

[jasonblack72]

Hi all

looking to make my own proceessor. Looking to cut timber up to 24" in size. What ton of pressure I need to split. Also best to power it hydraulic via pto on a pump or a wee diesel engine powering a pump.

any advice would be greatfull. Happy cutting lads

[Alycidon]

Have a look at the Binderburger 500 or some of the big self powered Multiteck processors.

 

24 inch timber splitting into saleable logs would mean 12 -16 way split.

 

You are going to need a lot of pressure to do that. But more importantly the brackets securing the rams fixed end and the splitting knife also need to withstand the pressure and then some.

 

My brother had a go at building a simple splitter a few years ago, he could not stop the brackets bending and gave up in the end and when needed uses a splitter I bought for a couple of hundred quid.

 

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[jasonblack72]

Thanks very much was on the site. My mate works in a factory designing and making farm machinery and thinks hed be able to design and make it. Anybody on this have a processor?what would you change on it?

[Boy English]

I use a dalen 2 days a week for my local estate, it has 5 ton splitting force and when needed you can hit the lever and it will give 7ton ..

 

if I made one I would like 10 / 15ton

 

it has a 5second cycle on the splitter, its not painful to use but I wouldn't go slower..

 

the splitter height is also hydraulically operated up and down which I like..

[big chris the log]

Hi all

looking to make my own proceessor. Looking to cut timber up to 24" in size. What ton of pressure I need to split. Also best to power it hydraulic via pto on a pump or a wee diesel engine powering a pump.

any advice would be greatfull. Happy cutting lads

You will need a lot of this size timber to justify the investment in a machine capable of doing this size.As Alicydon says you will need at least a 16 way splitter and would think this would need at least a 50 ton force unless itr is all ash or birch straight and not free.

I think in about 2000 wilsons had a posh firewood factory that could take 24".It did a few shows and demos then went back to Austria unsold I think.Then it was about £45000

I shudder to think what it would cost today.

My advice would be get a binderderger 30T gigant break the bigger stuff into quarters

then put through a palax combi you will be surprised how much you can get through.

I did this from 2000 -2010 then traded to palax 100 but still break the big stuff down

on binderberger not found anything it won t break up.

Hope this helps Chris.

[GlobalNewark]

The Multitek 24" capacity processor has a splitting force of 35 tonnes for the 16 way splitter,you can upgrade to 52 tonnes but this is not required in 99% of situations

[Boy English]

out of curiosity what sort of cycle time do the lager splitters have, I process lots of wood that's maximum diameter for the dalen which about 18" I think, I don't really find it a pain sticking it through the splitter twice?

[agrimog]

a 6" cylinder will give you 35 ton, and a 7" one will give you 51 ton, both at 3000lb pressure (200 bar), to get the advance and retraction speeds you'll need a pretty good flow rate(big pump) so probably looking at something pto driven, or a big diesel motor, something in the region of 15hp or larger

[Johny Walker]

iv been trying to find some one that can make a disc splitter ,to do a 2ft disc ,any ideas

[Chris Sheppard]

iv been trying to find some one that can make a disc splitter ,to do a 2ft disc ,any ideas

 

Marshall's had one at their demo day up here last year. Can't remember the make, but it was 60t and had a hydraulically adjustable window knife. Looked a simple, but well made thing.