Mr Ed

Maybe it should be firewood processor / chipper... By waste you mean all the leaf litter stuff? I would just compost it down the same as old chip and stumpgrindings. Although in my case, I would throw the whole lot in my wood boiler.

Great input guys, thanks. It would be very easy to incorporate a small barrel screen so that all your small twigs under say 30mm were seperated out for kindling, and the rest went for logs. Or, if you took the whole load back to your yard and ran it through a screen to get rid of the leaves etc, and then bag it. It just really appeals to me turning all that waste into good firewood.

LOP1? We have a signed copy of Peter Bridgemans book, as a kid growing up I read it (looked at the pictures) endlessly. Has there ever really been a replacement I wonder?

Its chunks or nothing I'm afraid. Not sure about the connifer needles, but a bag of connifer kindling usually sells for £2 these days...

I would want that done in a day. 1 climber 3 groundsmen. That does'nt happen to me Dean and with a crane, there should be no small stubs being cut...

I think there might be a small difference in bulk, but not much. As for the small stuff, it still just chops it into small lengths. It all burns:001_smile:

They are fully working prototypes. At the moment they dont meet safety regs though. The only difference would be the end product. it would handle the brash in as quick a fashion as your chipper.

Niether disk nor drum, and its a uniform 'chopped' product, no dust. I'll try get some pics.

If you can imagine the difference between a high speed shredder and a twin shaft hi-torque machine, thats the sort of thing. Trust me, this thing would not break... As for leaves etc, that would be all mixed in.

Hey guys, I'd like to get a litle bit of feedback and opinion on a very interesting machine I'm talking with a manufacturer about. Imagine a 'chipper' that you feed your brash into, anything up to 6" dia, but instead of chipping it into tiny little chips, it chops it all into 4 - 6" pieces of firewood and kindling. It would have 2 discharge options, either a conveyor that chucks it all in the back of your truck, or a dual bagging unit, for pre bagging of all material. It would be small, under 750kgs, VERY powerfull feed action, very simple and would process the brash as quickly as a conventional chipper. The difference is a firewood product rather than wodchips. Your opinion?

Looks like you wont get the job then Dean

Hard to say without being there, but I'd squeze it in somewhere. The lines would have to be made dead anyhow, so you could work the boom pretty close to the cables. I have had cables dropped in the past to get a crane in. on that job, I would justify the crane to lift all the arisings out and plonk them next to the chipper. The labour involved in bringing it all out by hand after lowering, + the time involved in the lowering process would more than justify the cost of the crane. (for me! )

Very good idea to use the grapple skidder, good sideways thinking.

£1500 + crane hire for 1 day.

Thanks for the vote of confidence:001_smile: Seems like the guys have it sussed though. Once oil and filter has been changed, try feeding something in. If the speed of your rollers is good but power is weak, its probably safe to say your pump and motors are fine, but your pressure relief valve may be worn, meaning that as soon as the rollers are loaded and the pressure spikes, the relief valve blows oil back to tank. Its easy enough to put a new spring in your pressure relief valve, as this can solve your problems. Get a timberwolf dealer to show you where the pressure relief valve is.

Pete, bad news mate. Hope you are insured. If you need ANY tools or sws, just give me a bell.

£4k +Vat

I had an 02 plate with the 170 engine, 100k miles from new with not a single problem, and mine was legal to tow 3.5 tonnes, although I had to spec a heavy duty towbar from nissan when I bought it.

Did a similar thing myself some years back (although I avoided shooting a hole in the diesel tank) - again, not been bothered since.

Not cool. They eat cockroaches, so when they do bite you, the wound goes sceptic. Nasty filthy things, used to jump out on me when I was trimming palms in Brisbane.

I get physically choked up with rage when I think of the shocking waste of life in the Great War. The Third battle of Ypres was typical -the Germans lost approximately 260,000 men, while the British Empire forces lost about 300,000, including approximately 36,500 Australians, 3,596 New Zealanders and some 16,000 Canadians from 1915 to 1917. 90,000 British and Dominion bodies were never identified, and 42,000 never recovered. Aerial photography showed 1,000,000 shell holes in 1 square mile. And for what? less than 5 miles gained, which the British subsequently gave up. There will never be a hell deep enough for the generals who continually sent these men to there deaths, and its dispicable the way the government treats the surviving veterans. Let us never forget the POINTLESS sacrifice that these brave men gave. "I died in Hell (they called it Passchendaele); my wound was slight and I was hobbling back; and then a shell burst slick upon the duckboards; so I fell into the bottomless mud, and lost the light" ― Siegfried Sassoon The horror of the shell-hole area of Verdun was surpassed. It was no longer life at all. It was mere unspeakable suffering. And through this world of mud the attackers dragged themselves, slowly, but steadily, and in dense masses. Caught in the advanced zone by our hail of fire they often collapsed, and the lonely man in the shell-hole breathed again. Then the mass came on again. Rifle and machine-gun jammed with the mud. Man fought against man, and only too often the mass was successful. —General Erich Ludendorff I stood up and looked over the front of my hole. There was just a dreary waste of mud and water, no relic of civilization, only shell holes… And everywhere were bodies, English and German, in all stages of decomposition. —Lieutenant Edwin Campion Vaughan "Good God! Did we really send our men through that?" The man beside him, who had been through the campaign, replied tonelessly, "It's worse further on up." —Lt. Gen. Sir Launcelot Kiggell [5], also quoted in (Leon Wolff, In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign) [6] "Passchendaele was just a terrible, terrible place. We used to walk along these wooden duckboards - something like ladders laid on the ground. The Germans would concentrate on these things. If a man was hit and wounded and fell off he could easily drown in the mud and never be seen again. You just did not want to go off the duckboards." Pte Richard Mercer, CEF-1CMMGB, 911016 I fell in a trench. There was a fella there. He must have been about our age. He was ripped shoulder to waist with shrapnel. I held his hand for the last 60 seconds of his life. He only said one word: 'Mother'. I didn't see her, but she was there. No doubt about it. He passed from this life into the next, and it felt as if I was in God's presence. I've never got over it. You never forget it. Never. —Harry Patch, last survivor of Passchendaele, 12/07/2007 Some of the boys buried here are the same age as me, killed on the same day I was fighting. Anyone of them could have been me. I didn't know whether I would last longer than 5 minutes. We were the Poor Bloody Infantry and we were expendable. What a terrible waste. —Harry Patch 29/7/07[7]

Jeez. Huntsman?

Yeah, unfortunately, fresh stock has only dropped by about 10%.