building a kindling cutter

[forestgough]

Any bright ideas on machines to cannibalise into a diy kindler,i cant justify buying one but would like to improve on the manual method.Apart from an old power hacksaw there must be other old machines with a similar motion or mechanism.

[kindlett]

hi my kindlet will be avaiable for hire in the summer months give me ring for prices regards wyn 07875925857

[Shere Logs]

Hi,

i don't know about building a cutter, but last year i bought an old kindling machine, running off a 1 kw electric motor. It has a knife mechanism, which using chopped pallet wood was making 15 bags an hour.(pallet off cuts from a local pallet maker cost me about £10 a cube). It's now sitting in the shed as i've found Genset Steve on here does nets at a very reasonable rate and i can just concentrate on the logs. Thats a free ad Steve!

[Graham w]

made one last year but took ages to build. its basically a hydraulic ram pressing 15inch blocks through a fancy grid. its prob easier to make them on a log splitter

[RDB logs]

When you look at videos on the tube, a v shape cutter on a horizontal splitter, with a tray both sides to shuffle the wood along seems to work well, you could angle the out tray down to load bags

 

If you build any thing put some pics up:thumbup:

[gensetsteve]

Hi,

i don't know about building a cutter, but last year i bought an old kindling machine, running off a 1 kw electric motor. It has a knife mechanism, which using chopped pallet wood was making 15 bags an hour.(pallet off cuts from a local pallet maker cost me about £10 a cube). It's now sitting in the shed as i've found Genset Steve on here does nets at a very reasonable rate and i can just concentrate on the logs. Thats a free ad Steve!

 

Thanks hope things are going well. We are going to stock 1000's of bags through the summer to get through next winter as its going to be cold. We normally put prices up end of summer unless price of wood crashes then it wont go up at all. If you have the space to store get stocked up now the wood is new clean fresh and 14% moisture. Like this

Edited March 29, 2014 by gensetsteve
spelling

[New Forest Firewood Co]

"next winter as its going to be cold"

 

 

Mystic meg......?

[gensetsteve]

"next winter as its going to be cold"

 

 

Mystic meg......?

 

 

 

Optimist

[ArthurBottlesworth]

Vintage engine collector showed me one he'd bought

 

Was basically vertical length girder

There was vertical slide with knfe on bottom

Then eccentric pushing slide up and down, mounted above blade

Belt droven off a lister

 

Blade cleared bottom by about five inches ( hand width)

Idea was you held piece of wood under blade and moved it to produce kindle

 

Went at about 1000000 rpm ( ie far to fast)

I had visions of it snatching on a knot

Pulling timber out of your hand

And then using timber to pound your hand to mush

 

Very scary, but then I'm chicken

[Graham w]

made one last year but took ages to build. its basically a hydraulic ram pressing 15inch blocks through a fancy grid. its prob easier to make them on a log splitter

 

its a honey comb grid- theoretically brilliant.... and it dosnt work:laugh1: