What a monster! This thing chews through logs like a hot knife through butter! #firewood #bigmachine #woodsplitter #chainsawman. Vocal imaging courtesy of Steven Lavoie
7 cord per hour,I have a hard time believing that,I've run cord king circular saw processors ,built rite automated,built rite lever feed, if woods real straight,someone feeding you,tops 3 cord, even watching it,no way 7 cord an hour
Thanks for the video! Wow that is quite the setup! Love that loco processor man that thing does everything but go get it’s own logs !😁 keep up the great work! Hope you get a video of the tub grinder in action when they have it fired up sometime!👍👋
make this a double axle and ad a regular hydraulic 404 pitch bar and chain to it and make the deck with a live chain and add a small conveyer to load trailers and I would have this guy make me a portable setup depending on how much he would charge. probably far less then most manufacturers would charge and would work just as good.
@@BuildALotAcres I was not saying a specific manufacturer was making them. I was refuring to you and how simple you made yours but with a few changes what you might charge to make one for someone like me. too bad your probably not local to me in Michigan.
@@jeromyw385xp I’ve run this processor and have run ones with the bar and chain method you are describing. This one will out produce any bar and chain type processor with less maintenance, no having to switch chains after so much use, no having to watch the chain tightness and having to adjust it here and there, no need for bar oil, and you can slice through just about any size log as fast as you want…. Unlike using a bar and chain. Plus the processors that use a bar and chain.. You have to really watch how much pressure you put on the bar, meaning how fast you cut, and after awhile will want to break the anchor point bearings, or start cutting crooked. You end up also going through multiple chains in a day, chains slipping off, ect.. I don’t think you realize how much wood that blade can go through and how much that same amount would beat up a bar and chain just from wear and tear.
@@dwightchaos9449 that maybe true but I prefer bar and chain because if the chain brakes or the bar goes out it won't do hardly any damage ware if these big blades blow apart there doing a lot of dangerous damage and peaces can go flying several hundred yards away and could hurt or even kill someone. I've only heard of one sawmill that had this happen to them and the blade went shooting threw there roof and landed almost 100 yards away and other peaces went sticking into walls and hitting other equipment and did 10's of thousands of dollars worth of damage and they were shut down for several days because of it. luckily no one was hurt when it happened. I'd rather stay on the smaller and safer side of things and have something less bulky and easyer to transport around with my truck not a semi like these things require.
Are there are other companies still around with a blade instead of an a bar? Any smaller versions comparable to the size of a dyna sc16? The blade seems better in many spectre
I operate one of these processors.. it’s a great machine, is very fast, reliable, and built very well… but 7 cords an hours is pretty much impossible. Unless he is talking about a “face cord”.
With the price of lumber I am so against cutting logs of the right size and species into firewood. They should be milled into dimensional lumber and flood the market until the price is more favorable. Now I don't burn wood so someone that does might be of a different opinion.
I sell maybe 15-20 cord a year. I go get what sells, buck and hand split, sort and season. I'm 68 yrs and run a 3/4 ton of about same vintage. At this pace I barely break even, but son-of-a-bit ch do I have pretty stacks. Can't and won't fault ya for working hard and putting in the time. There's plenty of dimensional lumber. It's just those businesses are greedier than us wood scrappers. Their bubble will burst and when it does society will have moved to building with plastic bags and free range rocks..
@@kevinfoster1213 Well Kevin, I'm really glad for 68 you can do that still. I'm 66, in March of 99 I broke my back and the surgeon screwed me up even more. My knees are bone on bone and I was one of them that the drug Vioxx almost killed. But every day I wish I could go back to work and give it 8 for 8. I agree the businesses are greedy. But you wouldn't believe how many people have sawmills now. If they all started flooding the markets with lumber it would break the backs of the big box stores all the way up to the big lumber supply companies. And thats a good idea the plastic bag theory. Maybe they can make plastic studs with all the water bottles.
Logs are sorted and sold at the highest price. If they are veneer or saw log quality they don’t end up as firewood. Even wood that is only suitable for scrag gets sold at a higher price for pallet wood before ending up as firewood.
In addition to seasoned wood, he sells green wood for a cheaper rate. Most large scale firewood sellers aren’t seasoning the wood do to space restrictions, despite how it’s advertised. He tells people upfront it’s green
@@Nico-rw1uo Yes sir. I know at least three local tree guys that run their processors. They were made in western MA. I believe their closing was a couple different factors.
Yeah, math calls bullshit on your 7 cords per hour claim. That's a 4 second cycle time at best on that machine, you would have to be pushing out 1 cubic foot ever single cycle perfectly uninterrupted for 60 minutes straight if you were to get 7 cords an hour. You can tell by the video you clearly aren't doing that.
I understand what you’re saying. It was a number they told me. It would be interesting seeing the machine at full tilt with perfect poles being fed to it. I agree this wasn’t full tilt. He had to lop off branch wood and the other guy was doing two things at a time.
@@joshszydel8202 I am attracted to the European type. I have never cut firewood but the economy is demanding more firewood. I was told the European type firewood processors are not tough enough for the tougher American trees, transatlantic trees being easier. I am okay with tractor and electric power. What is your opinion of the durability and suitability of firewood processors from those makers? I suspect they have been building them longer than we have. I don't think they scorned firewood the way Americans did. Walker stoves has a revolutionary wood-burning method.
