what logs have you been chopping today!

[Logsnstuff]

Cutting a bit of oak and birch although not many birch are blown in the area we are at, only managed around 80 bags or so but will get started saw benching the billets in Aug/Sept

 

got the old man in for a bit of scale.

 

Edited June 17, 2016 by Logsnstuff

[william petts]

May be a silly question but can you use them forwarders on the road and if so what sort of speed will they do

[gdh]

Forwarding trailers are the same as any other on the road. They'll do the same speed of as the tractor so 50kph/32mph in our case. Obviously no more than the 25mph speed limit though.

 

They also usually have a slewing tow bar so you can get into really tight spaces.

[william petts]

Ohhh but the one above is an all I'm one fixed machine isn't it??

I don't know much about them as you can probably tell

[gdh]

Ah yes, I missed that sorry, I just looked at the bottom picture and thought that it was a trailer like the one in my profile pic.

 

I would of thought the trailer type would be better for firewood production and considerably cheaper.

[Logsnstuff]

you can put them on the road but pretty slow think that one top speed is 10-15kph we bought second hand so didn't come with the mirrors and indicators it's also 11ft 6" wide, tractor trailer certainly better for road work but also limited in it's capabilities.

[william petts]

Just out of interest how many tonnes would that forwarder load in the pic above roughly be?? And if u was to sell it what sort of price per ton I'd it worth??

[william petts]

Still been processing quite a bit lately, just this weird weather we've had that made it a bit stop start for me, one minute hot sun next minute torrential downpours flooding the barn as the gutter couldn't cope then scorching hot sun again, thankfully we havnt cut the hay yet unlike some other farmers I've noticed who may have rotting grass on their hands unfortunately

[william petts]

Still been busy as we've had quite a bit of arb wood dropped off lately, been cutting all sorts from Oak, to conifer to some willow, poplar and ash that's been feeler about 3/4 years ago and is mostly all very dry and ready to burn apart from the bits that were on the ground at bottom of pile wich had soaked all the moisture up

[rowan lee]

Where do you finish off the split logs to season once they have been through the processor. You mentioned before you sometimes use the processor as a log splitter for arb waste rings. What tonnage is it, and what diameter max will it handle.