what logs have you been chopping today!

[arboriculturist]

13 hours ago, gdh said:

Even with 3 rollers the lumps get stuck on ours although it is better than the 2 roller decks. I'm looking at sheeting in the gaps but it would have to be very strong and I'm not sure if it will lift the bendier logs off the rollers. Only one way to find out...

 

We had some horrible logs today, had to tidy it all up with a saw and to make it worse it was all to cut for 6inch. Does anyone else bother cutting very short stuff?

Our Posch deck has 3 chains so not huge gaps. The short lengths get grabbed and into a trailer or dumper that can be moved to front of the deck. Then one person can drop all the short lengths into the conveyor channel while another processes the lot at one go.

 

That the most efficient way we could deal with shorts.

 

When grading through the stacks we swing and stack all bad bends and oversize to one side, where it gets crosscut and machine loaded to be moved as above or to a verticle splitter.

 

Never touch the timber by hand until moving from dumper or trailer to conveyor channel or splitter table.

 

Works well for us.

[Steve Bullman]

On 17/09/2017 at 00:32, scbk said:

1st pic Scots Pine on a farm

 

2nd pic Narrow access (with a nasty gate latch sticking out)

 

3rd pic Dead Elm in a garden

 

4th pic Dead Elm on a farm

cool splitter.  Home made?

[SbTVF]

Even with 3 rollers the lumps get stuck on ours although it is better than the 2 roller decks. I'm looking at sheeting in the gaps but it would have to be very strong and I'm not sure if it will lift the bendier logs off the rollers. Only one way to find out...
 
We had some horrible logs today, had to tidy it all up with a saw and to make it worse it was all to cut for 6inch. Does anyone else bother cutting very short stuff?

I can’t imagine sheeting would help at all, more powers rollers perhaps. Maybe only a belt/chain system would be better or some of the big firewood factory style machines have a ram/pusher on the infeed. Still would be useless on really bendy stuff.

6”? Only if they pay extra for it. That’s a lot of extra cutting to do and wasted timber really!

[scbk]

On ‎27‎/‎09‎/‎2017 at 11:16, Steve Bullman said:

cool splitter.  Home made?

Yes, it's just the ticket.

She got a day out to the Isle of Skye today

[Stefan Palokangas]

A few today

[richardwale]

8 hours ago, scbk said:

Yes, it's just the ticket.

She got a day out to the Isle of Skye today

Must admit I've admired that splitter every time it's posted.  Very versatile

[HertsWood]

A little bit of oak....

[rowan lee]

Nice butts Hertswood.

I have been thinning out some wobbly ash in the top woods on the estate, and hacking back some rhody over the last few weekends and logged up a medium sized windblown alder that was hung up in some nice sycamores.

 

[ash_smith123]

Got some nice Hardwood in at the moment. Been lucky to have 6 loads of the best Ash I've ever seen over the last few weeks. Been averaging about 6 cube an hour with most of them being 300-350mm! 

[gdh]

Finally got a sawdust extractor working this week after putting it off for ages. Our homemade cyclone appears to be working.