Processors choices?

[Mad Ginger]

Hakki Pilke

 

I have a 1x42 and its alot of machine for the money.

 

John Kerr at Linlithgow is the Scottish agent

 

John Kerr do processors!? The farms been using them for Ag machinary for longer than I've been alive! never knew they did them!

[briquette_seller]

John Kerr do processors!? The farms been using them for Ag machinary for longer than I've been alive! never knew they did them!

 

They sure do.

 

They have been Hakki agents for as long as I can remember.

 

Helpful chap Andrew Kerr

[smithyc]

kipper hire have got a WP36 in their hire fleet and they're just outside Dunfermline - sure they'd help you out if you wanted to have a look at it.

[CalumH]

Didn't you tease us with word of a processor from Uniforest?

 

Hi Gavin,

 

I did indeed and don't worry, I haven't forgotten!

We are hoping to get a final launch date towards the Spring

 

BR

Calum@Riko

01420 487300

[jonnygurkha]

Just after some advice, for the past 8 years I have cut and split a small amount of logs each year for myself and some to sell. Last year I had use of a hycrack pto splitter but otherwise all done with saw and axe. I now have a growing pile of wood. It's all arb arisings so varying sizes and shapes. I am considering how to process it more efficiently. I like the look of the riko wp36 road tow and I think I could get some funding towards a processor but would I be more efficient just getting a saw bench and hydraulic splitter? Any experience gratefully received!

[Justme]

If its all odds & sods then processors lose their advantage.

 

You spend more time feeding it than working it.

 

If the bits are short then the lifters on the WP wont work so you end up manually lifting it all.

[Pinkfoot]

Just after some advice, for the past 8 years I have cut and split a small amount of logs each year for myself and some to sell. Last year I had use of a hycrack pto splitter but otherwise all done with saw and axe. I now have a growing pile of wood. It's all arb arisings so varying sizes and shapes. I am considering how to process it more efficiently. I like the look of the riko wp36 road tow and I think I could get some funding towards a processor but would I be more efficient just getting a saw bench and hydraulic splitter? Any experience gratefully received!

Pretty much in the same boat as you ,except most af my wood comes from orchards at the minute.

I bought a Thor Mignon , second hand from the Bay.

It really makes life much easier for me and is versatile in that it will do billets and rings.

 

 

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[difflock]

I am still mulling buying a 2nd hand processor, for clean Sitka, I got the impression this was the time of year, post winter, individuals or firms changed machines.

Probably dealing with Wilsons or Caladonian.

Except I got no mechanism of handling the loose firewood produced, wheras the billets stack/bundle and are then easy mechanically handled.

So still pondering.

mth

[Bustergasket]

ahi l have a tran saw processor. had four 6 years and before that hakki pilke that eat it self not very strong .ring fuel wood you wont find a better british built machine

 

Another vote for fuelwood, the transaw is awesome, it's not a throw away machine, last forever and device is super, i think they have a used one for sale

[jonnygurkha]

As much as I like the look of a processor, the more I look into it the more I feel it's not right for me. I don't want to buy timber in, I just want to log up what I get for free from the arb work I do. I am now thinking a decent pto saw bench working alongside a self powered hydraulic log splitter and then perhaps a conveyor into bags/landy. Anyone else run a setup like this? Any recommendations for saw benches and log splitters? I like the look of the rock machinery venom 22 tonne splitter but I'm a bit cautious of Chinese engineering. I have no idea about saw benches. Time to trawl the forum!