Setting Up A Conveyor For The Wood Chipper.. 

Watching those shenanigans I remind myself of a quite popular warning sign in my country, that is translated more or less to "Don't fix machines when they are running, unless you want to wipe your ass with your elbow" :D

You guys reminds me so much the place I call "home". So much. Thank you :)

9:40 Try using the head of a kitchen broom. the bristle will act as a flap, while still allowing the flaps to pass through.

A small, thin material chute at the upper end of the conveyor may direct your chips into the wagons allowing for a little better clearance between conveyor and top of the wagon which, seemed to be nudged by the conveyor from time to time.

Years ago I needed to refit the plumbing under my house. My solution was to scavenge some conveyors from work and install them through the meter square opening for the access. I had two strong sons, one liked to dig and the other liked to drive. So I built a dump trailer to go behind a golf cart and we set to it. We soon had enough room to get to all the pipes without having to wiggle lengthwise between the floor joists. It sure was better than dragging buckets of dirt out of a hole in the wall. You might could make your shelves into a "V" shape to center your chips on the belt... Cheers Terry from South Carolina USA

Love the real-world engineering! Solve each new problem as it becomes apparent! Cheers from Guam! 🇬🇺

Glad to see the expansion, i was suppressed that there isn’t a way to have it run off the same motor that does the chipping?

Yesss!

I came here all the way from the other channel, it has been long journey

This is such fun. Greetings from Johannesburg South Africa!

Not only did a wonderful person donate the conveyor (thanks!), but we all benefitted because you made this video. Thanks!

Brilliant stuff! Missed your films, all the best folks!

1:10....Ah yes, the start of an adventure! The old, "we need a bigger hammer" opening move. Well played.

Hurrah! Thank-you!

I love your narration.

Try a piece of heavy fabric at the end of the conveyor to drape into the receiving wagon and stop spillage?

there are days when I think "jeez, I'd love to see a WayOutWest video today". Today was such a day (our first real snow day) so I was super happy to watch this! In Dutch, a conveyor belt is called a "Jacob's Ladder", because of Jacob climbing the stairs to the heavens (I think, it was something like that), I thought you should know.

I have also heard these conveyors called a "cleated conveyor" so the paddles/shelves could also be called cleats

Awesome to watch the trial and error method of working through a problem bro. Safe travels up your way

Hurrah! I think that the speed is right for extended periods of work.

thanks Tim.

I made a 60cm wooden pully out of two pieces of plywood for my firewood conveyor. I use the table saw to cut each circle with a beveled edge and sandwiched them together to form the vee.

Great video! I am also grateful for the mysterious benefactor's generous gift, because it means we get more chipper videos! 😋

I have all sorts of machinery in my workshops. The one thing I do not have ( and by the way, I'm deeply envious of your skills and possession of ) is a CNC Plasma Cutter. One is on my wish list.

wow! its all coming together.

If you are going to increase the speed and carrying capacity (more shelves) then it would be helpful to know your chipper’s output capacity. No point in having the conveyor outrun the chipper. Great video Tim!!

That's fun for sure

Working in the food industry I've use this type of conveyor a lot. Your flap floor works well I've used a bit of spare belt in the past. Also as someone else suggested you can glue extra flights or extend the flights as well for more capacity

I imagine you get a good laugh out of some comments Tim, especially those that tell you how to solve problems 😂 🤣 😅

Plasma milling 101 ! Sweet

If you wanted to increase the efficiency of the conveyor, you could make the paddles larger by either bolting a light sheathing (or single ply fiberglass sheet-something to that effect) to each paddle on the belt. If you preferred a less destructive method, silicone from the gun might have enough adherence without making it too permanent. It would probably have the added benefit of picking up the larger pieces too

That looks really nice. Now you can load up the train cars. You need a small locomotive. The move around the railway so you don't hurt your body for your back your health is most important. Keep on chugging along keep up the good work

I once built a conveyor from scratch using square pieces of wood joined by denim or some other resilient material. The drive was a cog and bicycle chain that traveled through a aluminum track. The pieces of wood thing had short screws thru the center that would catch in the links of the chain. Then I mounted a drill motor to a series of pullies to slow it down. Worked well enough. If I can find the video anyplace I will post it.

Looking good and seems like everything worked out well> The free conveyor is super awesome. May not be exactly what you want yet the fact that you did not have to build one right now is a good deal. One can always make another one. The best stuff as far as I know can be found second hand a lot. I have a old wide belt for implments that I have been saving to make a conveyor and just have not gotten around to it. If one can find the belt material then it would be easy to make it longer if you needed it to be. I looked in to one of those chunkers and been thinking about investing in one my self and growing my own fast growing trees on a plot of land I own. The thinking is that the chunks would be far better than cutting and splitting large amounts of wood where this would be something one can do in a very short amount of time to provide enough wood for winter heat.

Just a suggestion from a previous video, if you want to haul logs try going for logging disconnects. Maybe even modify them for your liking.

Yes that's what we're talking about

Very cool Tim :) I think that will help you out a lot.

Cool to see you back chipping! It’s all coming together so nicely!

Nice job, lucky with the donation! I think perspective is needed on the development, speed of conveyor vs number of carriages and quantity of stock to be chipped. Looks like current setup will work a dream as is and allows for steadier chipping rate, no point it chipping like a mad thing if you're running to feed it! Shame it wasn't just that little longer as the intake to the conveyor needed to be one gap between the paddles past where you input the material so it could run back and catch on the next one not run off. But hats off, getting it done while we sit in the warm and watch!

A door or piano hinge on the flap and a chute at the top if you have the room would be fine.

I love watching these videos! Keep up the good work!

Can you transport your animal fertilizer bye rail also ? Let’s see what’s next ?! Is it a tanker car ( 300 gal. IBC tote on a car ) a box car to haul dry stuff along with your engine and belly dump car and log car and last but not least a caboose ( to sit in and have lunch or a snack or a drink of water in the shade ) but of course you need the proper attire like bibs and hat ! Lol

Flip flap floor, I think 🤔 😂! I can tell that you and Will get so excited trying to figure this stuff out together. It's fun to watch. Hey it's American Thanksgiving tomorrow. I know you guys don't celebrate really, but to us it's important and I want to wish you, Will, Sandra and the rest of the farm a happy day tomorrow no matter what it's called. 🦃

"Where there's a will, there's a way." "Don't force it; get a bigger hammer!"

Generally you want the drive roller to pull rather than push, but in this instance it appears to work just fine.

You are Oliver Postgate of Ivor the Engine fame.

Spectacular job Brother 👍

Cool Video, i really like your railway!

It's looking good, Tim!

wonderful

We love you Tim and your hard work that you do.We will watch later after our busy day love to Sandra and all the animals we love the Donkeys there our favourites .🎄🎄🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🎄🎄🤶🤶🎅🎅🎅🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡

if the flap thingy that keeps the chips from falling down doesn't work out i have another idea though it might not fit for your purposes. basically you need to cover over the belt with a panel of plywood that's the same length as the distance between the belt flaps. then you just add a slope down to the belt from the end. in this design any chips that fall behind the first flap will have nowhere to go except against the flap further down because the top is covered. this does mean that the chips have to enter onto the belt from at least one flap-gap length which might make the high end of the slope too high for where the chips come out.

I was kinda hoping to see how you would make a conveyor belt system. But it is cool to see it being installed. the aluminum ladder sounds interesting. Great video as always.

love it!

Wrap the copper tube around the outside of a pipe 1" - 1 1/2" smaller in diameter than your chimney. That will be your form. Remove the tubing from the outside of the pipe and insert in chimney.

What you need is a mud flap the mud flap will just raise the teeth without jamming the belt And no wood chips will fall out

Great seeing a good trial and error video

I love watching your videos, must be because I am always fiddling with something. I get this off my late Grandad, he was always making/adapting/repairing/restoring things. Lately been doing a lot of work on my family's Burrell traction engine this week. Shame you couldn't have acquired a old right angle gearbox and had you old oil engine drive the elevator to (saving on your electricity bill to ;-) ) I'm not sure if it helps, but straw jacks and elevators have a slanted baffle to catch and guide the "produce" on to the elevator proper, that also have a "pit" to stop the straw falling through but with sticks you might find this would jam up so I think you ingenious flap system is best here. At the other end if you find you keep getting spillage from chips either missing your wagon or being carried over by the slats, a baffle or guide slat underneath (obviously allowing room for the elevator slats) will guide this stubborn bits to where you want them. I was waiting for the hammer to hit will on the head haha.

If you have a look at a mobile farm elevator. You see adjustable triangler frame on two wheels. With a small hand winch. As the frame is squeeze the height is increased.

Love all your projects you share! Im sure you've tought about this already but instead of a conveyor could you sink the wagon instead and when its full you winch it up to ground level? You would save energy and complexity that way perhaps.

9:40 - Ever thought of using an old YARD (straw) broom head there, as it would easily bend it's bristles our of the way of the paddles, yet keep the chipped wood on the belt.

You could look into the plastic dividing curtains like warehouses use to let forklifts through at the bottom of the conveyer instead of the plywood

One of your railway videos was no my recommendation list so I diceded watch all of them and your latest videos, butseeing the trouble you had moving the new carts you built from the workshop up to and onto the rails, made think why not extend the tracks down to your workshop so any more new carts and if you/when you build a locomotive they could be built and pushed dricetly onto the rails from your workshop. BTW I subscribed to both your channels.

I know you've got it sorted now, but should you decide to make another it may be worth considering a screw conveyor. (like an Archimedes screw). Wouldn't be surprised if there weren't a lot of farms around you with machines just like yours, they used them to raise hay bales etc. Now redundant since the invention of the huge round bales, so there's a possibility of very cheap spares there. 👍

I think soon you will have a full automatic charcoal factory

Cool, I was hoping you would get a conveyor! Why didn't you use the big engine to also drive the Belt? I fear the hoist motor is not made for continuous operation and might burn out.

I think his intentions have been clearly conveyed :)

Of cousre we like to see how's it going!

You Should make a Adjustable Conveyor with these double Pulleys so u can adjust it to get into the carts

Maybe use pieces of old conveyor belt to make the "flapdoor" at the bottom & for guiding the chips.

7m44s way-out Vest! 11m30s Re "improvements" in speed etc. Do not overlook your greatest improvement in speed: That wood-chipping and loading a wagon is now a one-man(1) operation. I believe that in the past it has taken two of you to toss a loaded basket over the lip of a wagon, whereas now your only constant manual labour is feeding branches into the throat. It has not escaped my notice that with the conveyor you can now harvest a little of the energy from the conveyor energy to load an elevated wagon crate, so you can then use that potential energy to propel the wagon! Well Done That Man! (1) or one-woman, if ever Sandra gets over her squeamishness (grin)

Heath Robinson would be proud.

Yaaaaa!

cool

Instead of your wooden board which holds the sticks from falling under the conveyor belt you could build a half u- shaped steel plate under the belt. So when the belt comes back from the wagon it catches the sticks lying in the u- shaped pan and transports them to the upper side. / /\ wagon ---/ / \ Sticks / /\ / / \ \ ---O/ / \ | /

What about moving the elevator sides closer to the middle of the belt,narrowing the whole system, looks like there's an inch either end of the belt for material to be lost

This must be the other side!

at 7:20 in the video you're being a bit unsafe with your bootlace there ;) but great work! I enjoy watching your videos :)

Bigger hammer always useful.

You might be able to cut different size chain sprockets with the plasma cutter ...

Why not run the belt from the chipper? You can do it with belt puleys from the chipper's shaft and a worm gear. You have a worm gear in your mangolator machine...

I've been enjoying all of your videos! I haven't heard what you will be doing with all the charcoal? Is it all for biochar? Will you be selling some?

It's called conveyancing - solicitors do it all the time!

I totally love this entire series! I did wonder if the chipper itself could be raised say 30-50 cm’s higher and that way buy you back a bit of height and reduced steepness of the conveyor? And also I would love to know what 3D cad software you are using (I’ve tried to zoom in on your videos to see the title bar but not quite enough resolution to be legible)? May your health be blessed, Sláinte!

Very Good!... 153 🐄🦉✝

No one has ever given me a conveyor either, but I think I do know why.

I love this guy he has to be the most crafty guy this world's seen

Have you thought of making a playlist for Farm railroad videos ? I'm asking because I'm having a little bit of difficulty trying to find the First videos you made regarding the very beginnings of the project

For the shelf problem, would a piano-key shape shelf and corresponding funnel work?

Have you considered making a lathe? there are some good designs out there on youtube, and it would help out in the shop quite a bit :)

side-valve lawnmower engines are tuppence a ton. 1-2 hp should be adequate, and run on a pint of petrol an hour.

RU-vid un subscribed me! I missed out on so much but it’s fantastic to see all the work. The new hopper (oh i can not wait to see that have couplers so there can be a full train) the ballasted railroad grade (helps with the mud issue too) the fancy switch and now a self loading industry [loading a car not being loaded into] ;)

you no when you had that chopper i told you about in poland and you bought one and you complained it was blunting blades fast well i watched the video on russian channels they say with hard wood use smaller branchs with softwood bigger branches plus also it makes a difference when wood is chipped better when its green

Wouldn't an Archimedes screw be easier to work?

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1:10 That's what she said! 😅

What about a variable frequency drive for the motor? That would give you variable speed without making any mechanical changes. Also, what would happen without the flapper-shelf thing, if you just let the whole space fill with chips? Would there eventually be a point where the empty space is filled and the new material would end up on the conveyor?

Could you use a brush on the end?

Would a truck tyre mudflap be a better solution?

I have a question will the railway have a engine to pull the trains or will it be pulled by hand