Oxdale TM400

[simonm]

I'm looking at an oxdale TM400 to run off my david brown, I have been told they are decent. What are your thoughts? I think maybe if it had a bigger table then it would be lots easier to use.

[Matthew Storrs]

Make sure you DB has enough hydraulic pressure to run one otherwise you will need to get one that runs of the PTO which costs quite a bit more. To be honest for the money they are pretty good. I'm not totally convinced by the small splitting head myself as I find it has a habit of just getting stuck in the wood also as the head makes contact with the log it seems to have a tendancy to push the log off the table which is very irritating. Perhaps a welded prong on the table to hold the log secure would solve this, but I never got that far before I sold mine.

In short, for semi proffesional/landowner use they are fine but if you do a lot of firewood I would look at alternatives.

[simonm]

The lad who had the tractor before was running 1 off the hydraulics and said it was suited to the size of the machine, what do you run off the machine now?

[Matthew Storrs]

It may be fine- I have no idea how good the DB hydraulics are, I used to run mine of a Zetor which had very poor hydraulics- eventually ended up making a bracket so I could run it of my mini digger and it was a different machine fast and powerfull

[woody paul]

I bought 1 about 4 years ago and very pleased with. People how have hired it off me are impressed with it for It's size.

[cornish wood burner]

It may be fine- I have no idea how good the DB hydraulics are, I used to run mine of a Zetor which had very poor hydraulics- eventually ended up making a bracket so I could run it of my mini digger and it was a different machine fast and powerfull

 

Our old DB hydraulics weren't that good 25 years ago so I would test yours before committing yourself.

[Billy68]

Just had a look at a petrol not very good try riko

[ArthurBottlesworth]

I've got one of these

Happy with it till I came on this forum

But it needs

 

1) much bigger table, going to modify mine

2) logs get stuck behind blade, I keep small sledge dropped down top for this

3) logs get stuck on blade, a bracket welded on frame would let you use bit of wood to push stuck log off the blade - i think a full width wedge blade would be better

 

Works fine with nice straight timber, but a lot of mine are knarly

Mine is very early one, I actually won his development prototype off ebay then upgraded to production one ........

 

UPSUM. Would be 100% better with bigger non slip table