This awesome. Friend and I have been talking of making something. I have all kinds of old stuff to make it out of including a JD combine for a power plant. Glad this came up for me to watch. Thanks for sharing Tyson!
Nice little video montage you have to open and close out your videos with Tyson. Interesting design and construction of a simple DIY wood processing station by a clever wood chopper too. -Bob...
The best firewood I have found was oak. Burns hot and lasts a long time. To bad there is not much of it out west. And what is cut down is not replaced with oak. Takes to long to mature. Thanks for the great videos Tyson.
Nice piece of engineering. Regarding the cutting speed, you might try a .404 "slasher" chain. It would take a new chain saw sprocket & bar, since the drive links are farther apart, but it will give a faster, more aggressive cut at lower RPMs.
rebuild it so when your log falls, it's ALWAYS dead center of your wedge. Also, redesign it to ALWAYS be cutting the next round vs having to wait to cut one
Yeah there's a couple of units like that in this area, farmer engineered and run till it quit breaking, lol. Some companies spend millions paying college engineers to make over complicated versions of this that don't last a winter.
Haha... yea... a neighbour had one he bought and he never liked it.. didnt work well.. My cousin looked at it and said I can make a better one so... .he did lol
I thought I would watch a few of your old vidjeo tonight since you had trouble with you new video ! Ryan said you were having some trouble with it that sucks ! 🤬 Hopefully you can get it figured out Tyson !👍
I think what your cousin is cutting up there, we would call aspen down here in the OH PA area. Some quick internetting suggests that firewood is better than poplar and as good as soft maple. Keep up the good work!
The log stop for gauging block length is too stiff. Block is binding the saw and he has to reach in and push it too often. A lot of wood processors I have seen have the gauge stop move away when cutting starts. Some good ingenuity in this invention.
Tyson, just for shits and grins (and if you had an extra $900 grand laying around ;) what’s your dream tractor build and one dream implement? Wheeled? Tracks? That would best fit your operation. Is there one that you could put on a big blade when ur scraping/pushing that would replace the D8 or do you think it’s best to have a dedicated dozer?
Oh man...probably a big versatile on tracks...hooked up to a new air drill....but that alone would cost over a million for sure ! For the most part I wouldn’t use a tractor and blade for what we do...the cats are built so tough and heavy just for that.
You should run the conveyor system off the same valve body as the splitting cylinder it would only allow the conveyor to operate each time as you are splitting the wood and would stop when you stop splitting, the reason I would do so is to divert the power that's wasted running the conveyor seytem constantly and unnecessarily to the saw that's way to slow and it would make the operation so much more efficient and less wear and tear as well . Just saying I love the concept and construtuion of your machine and I would love to have the equipment and available materials ,I have all kinds of ideas and some are actually pretty good ones lol sucks being poor and constrained, just makes one wonder how great the world could be if all men realized their full potential and abilitys ??? God bless and be kind and let's make our would a better place all ....
That makes sense... I agree that the chain saw is running to slow... That was my first time seeing it run.. I thought the saw would have ran like the ones on the feller bunchers in the bush
The hydraulic motor running outfeed conveyor could be a flow eating monster. To test the theory he could block the ports feeding outfeed belt and see if it sends more flow to the saw motor. Pressure and flow make or break a project. The bucksaw I built from junk has a 404 processor bar and chain on it. If I try to feed the cut too fast or it pinches in the cut, it stops the chain. I am now running an 18 hp motor with a 22 gpm log splitter pump and it cuts the wood at about 1" diameter per second. The engine running this has all the capability to cut fast with the right parts. I have been hauling home broken/short log yard ends from the sawmill I work at. Larch, Douglas Fir, Lodgepole, Ponderosa Pine, Hemlock, White Fir are all in the pile. Yes I live in the Montana.
"If they can't find you handsome, at least they can find you handy." Not trying to throw any shade, by the way. Is this contraption used mainly for commercial firewood production or more for personal household heating? Maybe Cotontop3 needs to make a trip across the border to check it out.
Tyson, tell your cousin that is a great machine, but your going to have to get a lot more of that popular wood, there is not much heat value in it. if your going to be able to heat all winter.
Tyson, too bad you could not get some BC Larch or grand fir, they burn hot and long and the leave almost no ash, which is a biggy for me, burn 4 months steady and empty the ash box once a month, I have burnt poplar in a pinch but leaves too much ash and is not really hot compared to larch fir or birch and maple.
