Big J
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The blade spacing is entirely adjustable. I think that I probably have about 850 tonnes to cut this year, and I think that this is most likely the quickest and most accurate way of doing it. Even with a 60mm band on the Trak met sawmill, the cut isn't infallible (especially through knotty material) and a frame saw will just simplify things. It's another bloody machine though - most cost!
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It is slow in terms of feed speed, but if you work out that even at the slowest feed speed, it will cut an entire (up to 500mm diameter) 4.9m log in 8 minutes. No handling either. The plan would be to take the log onto the sawmill, take top and bottom off until the prescribed thickness is achieved and then fire it into the frame saw. Top and bottom boards go through the edger - should be very quick. The last wagon load of softwood was 33 logs (decent sized 5.3m sticks) and it took 2.5 days. Should be doable in a day with the frame saw. Will - I don't think that I would use it for cutting unflattened logs (ie I'd only use it for cants) but the machine from Trakmet does have a sizeable log clamp on it. Will be very interested to see Copford's set up.
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Hi all, Wondering if anyone here has experience with frame saws? The volumes of softwood cutting that I think that I will be doing this year are such that it seems to make sense to invest in one. I am looking at this: Trak-Met : Pilarki, Owijarki, Traki : Sawmill machines - Sawmill machines - 8-ROLLER FRAME SAWING MACHINE PRU-570 Would mean very rapid production of planks, and total production of over 25 cubic metres of sawn material per 8hr shift. It's not a sawing process I've ever seen and nor do I know anyone with one.
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It's not. Look at the edge cuts. Hugely wandering cut.
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You can see from the photo of the plank that the accuracy is fairly awful. Might just be blade/sawmill set up or user error though.
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I have about 5 tonnes of burry elm branchwood and secondary stems. Patch burr, good colour.
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Not exactly sure on artic bulker capacity. There is a large shale oil 'bing' (spoil heap) next to the yard with 8 wheel bulkers running in and out of it all day and I have a good relationship with the company that manages it, so I was intending to possibly use them for haulage. Should be very inexpensive. Do pop over to see the machine when you are nearby. Only interested in doing softwood as I am sure that there are plenty of people doing hardwoods and I am also fairly sure I can be the cheapest on softwood.
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Also able to keep the cost down as premises/most of the equipment is paid for by the sawmilling. The firewood is just going to be a hobby really! I'll get a bit more timber through the processor and do a video/some photos of it. Astonishing value for money - it's semi automatic machine (manual clamp, manual chainsaw pull, push button splitting, either automatic or manual, powered infeed, conveyor out, auto stop on infeed) with a 25t ram, 47cm capacity, 4 and 8 way wedge and heavy duty log deck. Machine weighs 1.7t, is electric and first impressions are very good indeed. Also a lot of change from £10k for the complete set up. Highly recommended! Trak-Met : Pilarki, Owijarki, Traki : Sawmill machines - Sawmill machines - SAWING-SPLITTING SEMI-AUTOMATIC MACHINE P?D-450 ? 25 TON
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It nearly didn't rain today. Had a lovely day but for about 10 minutes of rain in the afternoon. Day 28 of continuous rainfall here near Edinburgh. Tomorrow finally looks like the run will be broken with no rain forecast at all.
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You are right! The last lot that came in (processed with hired in WP36) were largely around 28-30% with about 10% of the material being nearly fresh as some fresh pulpwood had been mixed in. Wood wasp - I'm getting the pulp/chip wood in at £35 a tonne delivered in.
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Hi all, Just took delivery of a Trak-met firewood processor this week with log deck and intend to be pumping out large amounts of softwood firewood. I will be wholesaling spruce/larch (cut from chipwood that is at least quite dry due to being felled for some time) at £27 a cubic metre loaded loose to whatever bulker/tractor and trailer you choose to send in. I can arrange delivery also. Might consider wholesaling hardwoods too, but honestly don't really want to. Jonathan
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That looks like a very good day's production for the alaskan - those dimensioned beams take a while to cut! Was there no option to extract the log for band milling? Just when you say 3 cans of aspen and a can of chain oil, I can't help but think Christ that's a lot of money to shell out on fuel/oil! With the generator for my mill, I put £70 of red diesel in it (200l) and I get about 100-150 tonnes cut for that.
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Bugger. A day late - he went and bought a 550 yesterday - sorry!
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The 115 sounds ideal. What is the cost on a 15" bar?
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It's not for me and whilst though the 5105 does look lovely, it's probably overkill for my friend to cut firewood with. I've got a 6100 (as well as a Makita DCS7901 and 9010) which is a great saw, but again, entirely overkill for logs.
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Andrew - you've still not answered my question about a 50cc firewood saw! I've asked about 3 times!
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True enough! Heavy duty felt on the roof, though subsequent stores have been done with heavy box profile steel. Looks nicer and is quicker to put on.
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True that!
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It's 24 days since the last day when it didn't rain here. Keeping anything dry is a challenge.
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Exactly. Build a wood store that you can stand up in - your back will thank you. Also, build one. Don't buy one. Here is mine - it takes 22 cubic metres.
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Lovely stuff Kim!
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Cool! Goes nicely with your reasonably priced, widely available building plots. You would struggle to spend £40k on a plot and £20k is average. I spend ages on Immowelt.de. For the value of the house that we rent here in the UK, I could actually buy about 6-8 reasonable 2-3 bedroom houses in that part of Germany. It's lovely too - very nice hills, forest and it's a wine growing region too. Apologies to the other thread contributors for the derail!
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That's towards the top end of the market! Cracking outbuildings with it though. I rather like this one too - cheaper, lovely inside and has a sauna and a beautiful garden: TOP-Gepflegte Immobilie im Landhausstil mit Nebengebäude + schöner Garten inkl. Teich + Kamin + Garage u.v.m. Einfamilienhaus Daun (27BPJ4Y)
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Don't all of you use Harold - he'll not have any time for my loads!
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That's a rather nice looking saw Andrew! Which model is it? Also, what options do we have in the 50cc class? I have a friend in Aviemore in need of a grunty firewood saw.
