Hydraulic guillotine style firewood processors

[GardenKit]

Browns Log Chop have been around for years. I sold quite few in the late 90's and the worked well enough, and as said, were great in demolition timber.

 

If you had some long hoses and hole in the barn wall you could leave the tractor outside and work indoors in the quiet without exhaust fumes.

 

The input chute, which looks flimsy, is in fact just clipped on and does move around a bit but was no problem.

[Kevm]

I made one for chopping up building waste timber, it's very slow but has never been defeated by nails, door hinges, locks or even railway sleepers.

It's not a subsitute for a log splitter but great for anything that potentialy has metal in it.

I have used it for log splitting and if the really knotty tough stuff wont split it just cuts it.

If you were using only one cylinder and wanted speed you would need a lot of power.

[wills-mill]

Tempest's biggun looks pretty smart. It looks like Wood Mizer have just bought the company, so they may become a bit more global.....

 

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[bilke_user]

Tempest's biggun looks pretty smart. It looks like Wood Mizer have just bought the company, so they may become a bit more global.....

 

 

That''l be converted to two handed operation only to comply with HSE regs

[Stubby]

That''l be converted to two handed operation only to comply with HSE regs

 

Making it even slower .

[needenginerunnin]

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1m split, needs some redesign.

[Chris Sheppard]

One estate I worked on had a Stanley Logger (or what was left of one) and it was quite a tool. HSE had stopped them using it as it was so they took all the guillotine side of it off and made some new controls for the splitter and it worked really well.

 

We could crane feed it with metre long pieces to billet or go through discs fairly quickly and put the loader bucket under the chute.

 

Never did work out why it needed a 1m stroke as standard though.

[logdog212]

I remember about twenty years ago baas were marketing this product ,slightly different set up , not too bad on green timber, but a total mess on dry, and these days a lot of people are looking for designer logs, they just make a mess, but that is my opinion. Others may differ 😃

[forestgough]

I have an old stanley ,the 1 metre stroke on the back splitter was for splitting stake lengths in two movements. It worked alright riving straightish oak blanks.

[needenginerunnin]

I remember about twenty years ago baas were marketing this product ,slightly different set up , not too bad on green timber, but a total mess on dry, and these days a lot of people are looking for designer logs, they just make a mess, but that is my opinion. Others may differ 😃

 

can you explain more