Firewood processor on CL: so this is where it went!

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I watched this processor for years when it was at the site of an old sawmill in Drain. I always thought that it would be a good investment, especially this last summer with gas through thr roof. Of course now prices for gas and firewood are a lot lower. Maybe not such a good investment. Anyway, here is where that processor wound up. It is for sale on CL:

http://portland.craigslist.org/yam/tls/1100253027.html

Firewood Processor / Firewood Mill - $11000 (Newberg, Oregon)

Up for sale is an industrial firewood processor mill that can really churn out some cut, split, and loaded firewood. This machinery is hydraulic and features quite an array of electric motors turning hydraulic pumps, several belt conveyors, a 35-foot long chain drive infeed that will move logs into the cutting portion of the mill, a lot of hydraulic controllers, and a splitting mill press that hasn't met a piece of wood it couldn't split. There is a lot of wood moving machinery here that will make someone a very good deal.

HISTORY- This firewood mill was set up and operating in Drain, Oregon for years and supplied cut and split firewood to Eugene residents. After the owner lost his lease, I purchased it and moved it all up to Newberg. I had just enough time to deliver it to my property and have not hooked it all back up to make it operational yet. Essentially the way the machine is set up is to feed logs onto the 35-foot long infeed. The logs go up to a conveyor that carries them to a hydraulic chainsaw that cuts them into rounds. The rounds fall down onto a conveyor that carries them to a vertical splitter that is made from a Caterpillar D6 hydraulic cylinder. This splitter is like nothing I've ever seen. It is massive. It is foot operated and the rounds come off the conveyor onto a table that the splitting head comes down to and splits the rounds as many times as you need to. The split pieces fall down a shoot onto another hydraulic conveyor that carries them up and into your truck. Again, there is a lot of heavy-duty industrial equipment here that you can either set it up to use it all, or maybe just a portion of it. I also have a Ford F-450 with a dump box on it that easily holds two cords of wood. The truck is available for $5,500.

This is a rare opportunity to buy a lot of unique machinery at an unbelievalbe price. It will not take long running wood through this mill to have it pay for itself. If you are interested, please email me with your phone number. I am very busy with work right now and will schedule with interested parties to come out and look at it as my workload allows. $11,000.

 

[thejdman04]

I watched this processor for years when it was at the site of an old sawmill in Drain. I always thought that it would be a good investment, especially this last summer with gas through thr roof. Of course now prices for gas and firewood are a lot lower. Maybe not such a good investment. Anyway, here is where that processor wound up. It is for sale on CL:

http://portland.craigslist.org/yam/tls/1100253027.html

Firewood Processor / Firewood Mill - $11000 (Newberg, Oregon)

Up for sale is an industrial firewood processor mill that can really churn out some cut, split, and loaded firewood. This machinery is hydraulic and features quite an array of electric motors turning hydraulic pumps, several belt conveyors, a 35-foot long chain drive infeed that will move logs into the cutting portion of the mill, a lot of hydraulic controllers, and a splitting mill press that hasn't met a piece of wood it couldn't split. There is a lot of wood moving machinery here that will make someone a very good deal.

HISTORY- This firewood mill was set up and operating in Drain, Oregon for years and supplied cut and split firewood to Eugene residents. After the owner lost his lease, I purchased it and moved it all up to Newberg. I had just enough time to deliver it to my property and have not hooked it all back up to make it operational yet. Essentially the way the machine is set up is to feed logs onto the 35-foot long infeed. The logs go up to a conveyor that carries them to a hydraulic chainsaw that cuts them into rounds. The rounds fall down onto a conveyor that carries them to a vertical splitter that is made from a Caterpillar D6 hydraulic cylinder. This splitter is like nothing I've ever seen. It is massive. It is foot operated and the rounds come off the conveyor onto a table that the splitting head comes down to and splits the rounds as many times as you need to. The split pieces fall down a shoot onto another hydraulic conveyor that carries them up and into your truck. Again, there is a lot of heavy-duty industrial equipment here that you can either set it up to use it all, or maybe just a portion of it. I also have a Ford F-450 with a dump box on it that easily holds two cords of wood. The truck is available for $5,500.

This is a rare opportunity to buy a lot of unique machinery at an unbelievalbe price. It will not take long running wood through this mill to have it pay for itself. If you are interested, please email me with your phone number. I am very busy with work right now and will schedule with interested parties to come out and look at it as my workload allows. $11,000.

Vertical splitter? So you have to have another guy there running the splitter?

 

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This one is not a one man operation. I saw 2 or 3 people running it (if it was being operated) when I drove past it at the mill there in north Drain. Most of the time it just sat there idle. It was set up at an old sawdust burner mill. They always had piles of cull logs, ends and remnants from the mills there to cut the firewood from. My guess is that they really shut it down for lack of cull and mill logs to cut up. Mills there are all but idle, except the plywood and glue-lam place. In the boom years, every mill there was cranking 24/7. Drain has about 6 mills, Yoncalla a few more, and there were dozens more within 45 miles. Lots of wood and mills in a small area.

You would have to have a cheap source of logs to make the thing work. So you would have to be near an operating saw mill or large stands of trees that you could cut, or by a place that they load/unload logs at, like a ship or rail yard. You would also need dump trucks, and a large lot to work on and store wood on. And a nearby market to buy the firewood. They had all that at the old mill yard in Drain there. Right on the RR tracks, right on highway 38/99, right across Pass Creek from a working mill, and a few miles from 6 saw mills. The only drawback was the hike to Eugene, 45 miles to the north. But that is a large enough market. Portland is far larger, and I can see why someone would buy it wanting to set it up in Newberg. Most mills here are idle or shut though. Paper mills are also paying top prices for any scrap or crap wood. I suppose that you could pay for low grade logs and have them trucked in. Or set up at some palce with a lot of logs sitting around, like in Forest Grove. But I saw/heard that they were exporting those logs by rail/ship overseas.