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skid attatched firewood processor.
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treevet
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Sometimes I wonder if it is worth the time to make firewood. If work was a hundred percent all winter it would no be. It keeps cold cash in your pocket at all times tho.
My biggest worry with that machine would be splitting too big of a piece and it falls down into the well that leads to the conveyor and reaching to get it and the guy splitting on the other side drops one on your hand. Hate getting my fingers squashed.
ps....can't find the thread w the name of the machine. will ck it next time I am over there.
My biggest worry with that machine would be splitting too big of a piece and it falls down into the well that leads to the conveyor and reaching to get it and the guy splitting on the other side drops one on your hand. Hate getting my fingers squashed.
ps....can't find the thread w the name of the machine. will ck it next time I am over there.
Ax-man
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TreeVet, that would be the same machine. It is manufactured in Canada. I have some old sales brouchures around here someplace showing that machine.
They make a single operator model which is the machine my sawmill guy uses. No conveyer, just the basic work station model for a one person operation.
My sawmill guy has said if you run into a piece it won't split which is rare but does happen, that machine can kick the piece anywhere it wants too. That direction can be right at the operator if you aren't careful.
That is a big pile of wood. Be nice to have, but all I see is long hours at a splitter doing nothing but splitting wood and not much money for all the hours that goes into a pile like that after figuring your time and expenses.
Larry
They make a single operator model which is the machine my sawmill guy uses. No conveyer, just the basic work station model for a one person operation.
My sawmill guy has said if you run into a piece it won't split which is rare but does happen, that machine can kick the piece anywhere it wants too. That direction can be right at the operator if you aren't careful.
That is a big pile of wood. Be nice to have, but all I see is long hours at a splitter doing nothing but splitting wood and not much money for all the hours that goes into a pile like that after figuring your time and expenses.
Larry
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treevet
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He uses amigos and his son and his friends for cash. It runs all day. He added an extension to the conveyor. He sold about that much last year at 100$ load in a pickup, you load.
Don't know what his profit is but he is already loaded. Just a neat machine being self propelled esp. You split without bending over, it has dual log lifts and I don't think it is that dangerous seeing they have split all that and had no accidents.
Ax-man
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$ 100 for a u-load pick-up truck of mixed woods is about right. We charge that but people think your ripping them. But they pay it.
Our pile if that is what you want to call it is small compared to that one.
Glad to hear that no accidents have occurred.
If I was to get serious about wood. That machine would be the one I would want. Being self propelled like that would be nice. Just march down a line of logs like a combine in a field at harvest time. Couple guys ahead of it cutting and a couple more doing the splitting.
Larry
Our pile if that is what you want to call it is small compared to that one.
Glad to hear that no accidents have occurred.
If I was to get serious about wood. That machine would be the one I would want. Being self propelled like that would be nice. Just march down a line of logs like a combine in a field at harvest time. Couple guys ahead of it cutting and a couple more doing the splitting.
Larry
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treevet
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me too Axman,
I sell a pathetic little amount of wood. I have no space, but maybe, who knows, I will luck into some. I have been trying hard to find a wood lot to buy.
I sell about 25 to 30 cords at $250 a cord. You gotta find the right people that will pay that much and keep adding to them.
I sell a pathetic little amount of wood. I have no space, but maybe, who knows, I will luck into some. I have been trying hard to find a wood lot to buy.
I sell about 25 to 30 cords at $250 a cord. You gotta find the right people that will pay that much and keep adding to them.
Ax-man
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That is a nice set-up you have. That is about what we do on average. I had something similar but sold off my TW 2 and the old farm elevator.
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Ax-man
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Wow, sorry for the big pic.
Our house now sits where I had this set-up. I had to move it of course but never set it back up because I have another vertical splitter we use for splitting wood. After two years of getting by without it I just sold the TW and elavator to another firewood guy who loves it.
The Timberwolf was nice but bending over so much played havoc on my back. I could never get it high enough to make it easy on my back. At least with the vertical model I can sit on log and just move the wood under the wedge. I think the vertical is just as fast as that TW with the 4 way wedge that I had.
Larry
Our house now sits where I had this set-up. I had to move it of course but never set it back up because I have another vertical splitter we use for splitting wood. After two years of getting by without it I just sold the TW and elavator to another firewood guy who loves it.
The Timberwolf was nice but bending over so much played havoc on my back. I could never get it high enough to make it easy on my back. At least with the vertical model I can sit on log and just move the wood under the wedge. I think the vertical is just as fast as that TW with the 4 way wedge that I had.
Larry
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That was funny, wasn't it? It makes me wonder what he was thinking about to come up with that joke, though.
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