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Big ones or small ones? Bugger, was hoping for something a little more adventurous! Sorry, may have had a drink with lunch......

i love him! Wow, that's insanity at it's very best, genius!

Hey there, Thanks for the reply. We're looking to make some sort of cord rack, we'll pile it on with our little crane. Then the cords roll down one at a time onto a roller based (like a boat trailer) conveyor that we operate manually (not hydraulic) & pull the timber along to a gimble mounted petrol driven saw to cut to our desired length. The cut round then drops into a splitting troft where a hydraulic ram working off an auto kick out lever will split the round into logs & push the split logs onto a conveyor & take them away to drop into bags for firewood,or into the storage area for the kiln. Proper Heath Robinson but will be massively cheaper & easy to tinker with as we find what needs to be changed & adjusted. I understand what everyone says about buying one. But it's on deaf ears,we wont buy one,they're stupidly expensive & we're quite capable of building something ourselves for a fraction of the costs. Plus, we like doing things ourselves. They told us we'd never get planning permission to build our house in the woods too & we did. Then they told us we'd never be able to build it ourselves as we had no experience, & we are. They told us we'd never build it to such a low budget & keep it within building control regs & we are. They told us we'd never build the house,manage the woods & produce enough firewood manually to keep up with demand. THEY WERE RIGHT, SO A PROCESSOR WE WILL BUILD! Come on anyone with a home made machine, get ya pics out for the gal!

I LIKE YOU! Good luck, & I've started collecting parts for my boy to knock something up.

O.K I'll start again. Has anyone built their own processor? For their own use, forget hiring it. If you have, I'd be really pleased to hear about how you did it & what choices you made, or even better, would be great to see some pictures. I can't watch videos as the dongle in the woods here isn't fast enough, grr! Thanks very much in advance.

Thank you for your input. So you haven't built your own then as per topic.

Hi, thanks for the reply. I'm well aware of where I can buy a new or second hand one, but that's what I'm wanting to do. I would like to save the vast amounts of capital lost in buying one that will mostly suit my needs, & build one that will completely suit my needs. Yes I have tractors here, but would have a small petrol engine chugging away all day than a big tractor engine. Also if I want to send it out on a hire job I don't have to send a tractor with it. Thanks though.

Hello, We have really, really, got to get some sort of machine to get through our firewood. Have started looking around Google for others who have made their own & thought I'd see who here maybe able to offer some insight. It needs to be trailer based, simple, petrol, able to take 3 meters lengths up to about 40cm & have a log elevator at the end. All ideas & inventions welcome!

Hi, Where abouts are you, we may be able to help. Cheers,

Tom, I'll drop you a line now, It'll be easier. Natalie.

Tom, Good to hear from you. Many thanks for the offer. We'll keep in touch over the coming months I may take you up on that yet! Am I right in thinking you had an alpine & a small forwarder? Natalie.

This is exactly what I do, I'd be happy to answer some questions for you if it helped? Cheers,

Now that's what I'm talking about, thanks Cirian. Someone with up to medium fell, ideally, although small would still be a help. I apologise I should have made it clear, it's not a job job, in the sense of me employing someone. I'm looking for a self employed gal, that can invoice me at the end of every week & I'll pay them there & then. £140 a day fuels, lubes, & chains provided. I do have spare saws & clobber, but would expect them to have their own really. Quad ticket would also be very useful. Aprox 4 weeks of work now, more for the right girl:thumbup1:. Please do pass details on. Thanks again,

Hello, I'm looking for a female cutter to help clear a backlog of contract work & help get ahead on some of the thins on my own woods. Must be NPTC ticketed, hard working, up for some good fun & happy to get down & dirty! Drop me a line if interested& we'll thrash out the rest.

Brilliant!

Whilst I'm equally sickened by Moats actions & the consequences of them, is this not the same web-site that has running at the moment a thread entitled "would you kill to stop your gear being stolen" ? & has some illuminating replies. I don't think there's a place for any such behaviour. That's not to say I understand the world isn't perfect & will always have it's problems.

Kill me now, please just kill me, but do with a decent saw..........

Here we go again!

Ross, the course would be a great idea. Was chatting to Donald the dry stone waller today, & thinking of combining on some course weeks, your horse logging is another perfect activity to fit in. Also a good chance we'll have NPTC & LANTRA chain-saw, brush cutting etc... courses running from our woods too, We can't do anything this year, but we'll probably hatch it over the autumn, put in place in the winter & try to start next Spring. What do you think? Could be good for us all!

We use a 372xpg, either with 18" or 24" for the bigger hards & are very happy with it, if that helps.

Your kiln idea will work fine, as I say we do the same to great effect. You want to spend as little time & effort getting the best & quickest results. Kiln will do fine as it will be done in hours. In future, as has been suggested, if you could find the space, a polly tunnel or solar kiln is a great asset.

The set up you've described is the start of a charcoal making process. We use it to season wood quickly for our kilns (a pre-burn or cooking burn) then the main burn means making charcoal with unseasoned wood is possible without being a tremendous waste of energy. Play with it a little & it will do exactly what you need, very well. It may take you a few goes to get he hang of it, not hot enough or long enough wont dry it out enough, to hot or too long will over do it. Good luck

When we bought a 110 everyone said "Oh you'll never turn it round in the woods, you'll never reverse the big trailers in tight city delivery zones". I'm with you MADMATT, if you can drive, & haven't put outrageous wide wheels on it, you'll put it anywhere you need

No contest mate, if you want something that will work all day, be easy to fix yourself, depreciate very little in value & provide a classless (in the actual sense of the word) image when you arrive at a job, it has to be a Landrover.

We had a Trooper for a bit, but I can honestly say we hated it. In its defence, very good engine, 3.1td intercooler, pulled well & returned pretty good mpg, sold it to a guy who was very happy with it, suited his needs far better than ours.