Homemade log processor saw issues

[ash_smith123]

Good answer! That explains it then! [emoji106] didn't realise it was to do a specific job so it sounds like abit of a beast

[bilke_user]

If cutting long lengths in two then splitting them is your game, surely it would be just as fast to use a chainsaw to saw the long lengths in two then use a cone splitter attached to your mini digger to lift and split the 5 ft lengths onto the bundler?

£4-5k would see enough for a cone splitter and 700 would cover the saw cost.

 

Seems to me that what you're doing might seem like a great idea but maybe not the simplest.

 

Spend a fill of the saw cutting 10ft lengths in two then spend time in the digger lifting and splitting them into the size you need. Bet it's not any slower than what you've got and not any more labour intensive

[Chipy]

Hired a cone splitter for a day before we decided to build this machine and I wasn't a fan. It was very fiddly trying to split a log into 4 pieces. Would have been worse to put them into 6 pieces which is my plan with my machine eventually. I felt we were handling the wood too much when we chain sawing them all then splitting them then lifting them into the bundler. Was extremely fiddly trying to put them in bundler with cone splitter

[Chipy]

Someone's suggested a sequence valve like this one Hydraulic sequence valves, 1/2" | Relief & Sequence Valves | Hydraulic Valves

 

Would this help with trying to run saw motor and saw ram on same valve?

[County 764]

some saw plans available ebay US that may be of interest

 

Plans to Make A Hydraulic Chainsaw | eBay