cool log spliter
09-01-2013, 05:30 PM
#2
Mopar Lover
Moe, that is way cool.. The local fire wood guy here has a log harvester it cut the wood from logs to a set length splits them and run the wood through a tumbler to get all the loose dirt and bark off then loads it into a roll off dumpster. which can be either dumped at the customers house or he will leave it there and you rent it until its empty
Bill
Bill
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09-01-2013, 05:45 PM
#3
Mopar Lover
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years ago i built prototype trenching machines. hydraulics, electrics, paint, weld ect. i am always happy to see hydraulics used in a good way, ie save labor. i also found a couple of other machines like that one, on the internet. so look around.
09-01-2013, 09:17 PM
#6
I've seen that. You have to be seriously into firewood. I hope never to touch the stuff again. I've fell, sawed, bucked, buzz sawed, thrown, loaded, unloaded, chopped, split, carried, and stoked all the firewood I ever want to see.
When I was a kid we had a "crick" through the place with beavers, and the growing weeds of alders and cottonwoods. You had 'to do SOMETHIN' to clean em up. The beavers would eat around a 2' thick cottonwood and kill it, so it was a standing widow maker.
Consequently, "we burned cottonwood" along with some other. Gauwd I hated that stuff
This is our old Farmall which we sold some years back. It's about a '24 Farmall "Regular." I DROVE it onto the trailer. Behind on the back, you can see part of the saw, which mounted on the front. "Saw guard?" Are you freekin kiddin' me? "Little me" would be standin in the wet fall grass "throwing away" from that thing into the pickup or trailer. Behind the shed you can see some of the very trees of which I speak
This ain't ours, but somewhat similar
When I was a kid we had a "crick" through the place with beavers, and the growing weeds of alders and cottonwoods. You had 'to do SOMETHIN' to clean em up. The beavers would eat around a 2' thick cottonwood and kill it, so it was a standing widow maker.
Consequently, "we burned cottonwood" along with some other. Gauwd I hated that stuff
This is our old Farmall which we sold some years back. It's about a '24 Farmall "Regular." I DROVE it onto the trailer. Behind on the back, you can see part of the saw, which mounted on the front. "Saw guard?" Are you freekin kiddin' me? "Little me" would be standin in the wet fall grass "throwing away" from that thing into the pickup or trailer. Behind the shed you can see some of the very trees of which I speak
This ain't ours, but somewhat similar
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09-02-2013, 07:58 AM
#7
Mopar Lover
440... Thats a big azz saw !!!!
What feed the timber into the saw blade..... I dont think I could even pick up a tree stump that big...... Wow
My People use to run timber down on the Mississippi quit some years back. Before my time anyways.
I've been in them Cotton fields.... Working them a'nt no joke !!!!!
Love the old farm all...... And Steam Trains....
What feed the timber into the saw blade..... I dont think I could even pick up a tree stump that big...... Wow
My People use to run timber down on the Mississippi quit some years back. Before my time anyways.
I've been in them Cotton fields.... Working them a'nt no joke !!!!!
Love the old farm all...... And Steam Trains....
09-02-2013, 08:58 AM
#8
Well, the bottom video wasn't ours, just "similar." Our blade was a bit smaller. But there WERE logs that I had to help Dad lift. I don't remember, I think one blade we had was 36"
Much of the tree wood we bucked with a chainsaw, just too large for the buzzsaw. The vast majority of wood we used it on was "mill ends." Back then you could get sawmill scrap for sometimes the haulin' away. They just burned it in huge incinerators.
Nowdays, of course, what mills are left up here, everything is recycled and used in some way.
Now some of these mill ends were 3, 4, even 8 ft "culs" There once was an amateur radio operator, disabled trucker up here who was kind of a bum, and lived in a home built cabin on a friend's property. His cabin was built ENTIRELY of mill ends!!! These were hollow walls made of "flat stacked" 2x6 mill ends. Must'a had tons of nails in it, and was earth filled in the middle.
The interior was "tastefully" done in what we called "Packy board" made by the Pack River lumber co, and was the first large chip board I ever saw. It looks like modern OSB, I don't know the differences.
Much of the tree wood we bucked with a chainsaw, just too large for the buzzsaw. The vast majority of wood we used it on was "mill ends." Back then you could get sawmill scrap for sometimes the haulin' away. They just burned it in huge incinerators.
Nowdays, of course, what mills are left up here, everything is recycled and used in some way.
Now some of these mill ends were 3, 4, even 8 ft "culs" There once was an amateur radio operator, disabled trucker up here who was kind of a bum, and lived in a home built cabin on a friend's property. His cabin was built ENTIRELY of mill ends!!! These were hollow walls made of "flat stacked" 2x6 mill ends. Must'a had tons of nails in it, and was earth filled in the middle.
The interior was "tastefully" done in what we called "Packy board" made by the Pack River lumber co, and was the first large chip board I ever saw. It looks like modern OSB, I don't know the differences.
09-02-2013, 09:16 AM
#9
Mopar Lover
Neat story.......
Last loggin I had done, was up on the mountains of Big Bear Southern California.
Went up with and old HillBilly in his 1978 Dodge 440ci Power wagon 4X4 with a winch and a trailer and a few 36" Saws.... Worked my butt off that day...
That man unhooked his trailer and said..."Waite here, I'll be rite back"
That som-bitch drove off the side of that hill haulin *** between all them trees. (I thought he was going to kill himself).. Run down in there some where and before I new it he come pulling a tree back up the hill for me to chop up in 6' lenths.... Then he was off again!!!!
All I can say is we went home with a truck load full and a trailer full. The next day was splitting day....We must have run that chipper 10hrs straight.
I dont know how much beer we went threw.... But we sure make a bunch of cords of wood for him to sell..
Last loggin I had done, was up on the mountains of Big Bear Southern California.
Went up with and old HillBilly in his 1978 Dodge 440ci Power wagon 4X4 with a winch and a trailer and a few 36" Saws.... Worked my butt off that day...
That man unhooked his trailer and said..."Waite here, I'll be rite back"
That som-bitch drove off the side of that hill haulin *** between all them trees. (I thought he was going to kill himself).. Run down in there some where and before I new it he come pulling a tree back up the hill for me to chop up in 6' lenths.... Then he was off again!!!!
All I can say is we went home with a truck load full and a trailer full. The next day was splitting day....We must have run that chipper 10hrs straight.
I dont know how much beer we went threw.... But we sure make a bunch of cords of wood for him to sell..
09-02-2013, 02:58 PM
#10
Mopar Lover
Wow 440, if that doesnt bring back bad memories. I use to have to cut and sharpen fence stakes on an old buzz saw like that.(You have to put molasses on the flat belt to keep it from slipping. Right).. I'm talking hundreds of fence stakes then they went into barrels of diesel fuel and creosote I hated that job. But it was honest hard work and kept me out of trouble. Because I was to tired to even go out at night..Bob that chainsaw is just plain crazy and the unicorn log spliter is very dangerous we use to sell them at a dealership I worked at and they were recalled because people were getting killed by them..Bill
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