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I heat my house and shop with a wood fired boiler, burn about 20 face cord a year. I buy a load of logs and cut them up by hand, this year my son helped and we were done in 5 days,so not a huge task, but why do it by hand when i could build a machine to do all the grunt work, and Im not getting any younger.
Here's about 2 1/2 years worth of heat.
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The basic design will handle 8 to 12 foot logs up to say 20 inch in dia. I'll load the logs onto a deck with the tractor, it will feed them one at a time to a chain that will move them in front of a mechanically driven chain saw bar which will cut them to length. Im thinking a mechanical drive over the more common very inefficient hydraulic drive used in the commercial units. The biggest chain saw you can buy might be 8 hp, a wood splitter with an 8 hp engine will split any wood you through at it, so where do the commercial units use up the 40 to 60 hp diesels they run. They may be quicker than mine but mine will be more efficient (think green). Once the block is cut a tilting table will roll it forward to the operator to position it for the best splitting. The commercial units split the block however it falls and produce an abundance of slivers. once split the wood will move to a short conveyor to load it onto a trailer for stacking.
Sounds easy, now we'll see if I can build it.
This project may take a while, I'll update as I go.
Greg
Here's about 2 1/2 years worth of heat.
.
The basic design will handle 8 to 12 foot logs up to say 20 inch in dia. I'll load the logs onto a deck with the tractor, it will feed them one at a time to a chain that will move them in front of a mechanically driven chain saw bar which will cut them to length. Im thinking a mechanical drive over the more common very inefficient hydraulic drive used in the commercial units. The biggest chain saw you can buy might be 8 hp, a wood splitter with an 8 hp engine will split any wood you through at it, so where do the commercial units use up the 40 to 60 hp diesels they run. They may be quicker than mine but mine will be more efficient (think green). Once the block is cut a tilting table will roll it forward to the operator to position it for the best splitting. The commercial units split the block however it falls and produce an abundance of slivers. once split the wood will move to a short conveyor to load it onto a trailer for stacking.
Sounds easy, now we'll see if I can build it.
This project may take a while, I'll update as I go.
Greg