Let there be firewood!

[CarolAnn]

My brother sent me a .wmv movie file and it was so awesome, I Googled it so I could post a link here. I don't know if this is one of a kind or something one could buy . . . but this machine does an awesome job of turning a tree into firebox-sized sticks! The star-shaped splitter alone is genius!

http://lumberjocks.com/topics/7796

If you can view movies, download this one and have a look - it's well worth it if you've ever used a chainsaw or a splitting maul!

[bookwormom]

the link does not work for me. too bad.

[CarolAnn]

Try this one:
http://firewoodprocessor.net/videos/hfp160-3-broadband.wmv

It looks like a tractor or front end loader that has a ram to push the log forward, a chainsaw mounted on a robot arm to slice it off, and then the ram shoves it onto a star shaped wedge that makes it into about 8 pieces of firewood. It then shoves the pieces off and starts the next slice.

It eats through wood like Paul Bunyon only dreamed of!

[Anon001]

neither one works for me either....

[Anon001]

here try this link:

http://videos.firewoodprocessor.net/hfp160-3-broadband.wmv

[Anon001]

Holy cow!!!! I want one!

[CarolAnn]

Well dang - the links all work for me at home, but do not work for me at work, so I suspect it is the firewall or something that prevents downloading movies.

Paul - I want one too, and I'm not burning wood for heat any longer and I don't have a woods. But, having used a maul and axe, this is QUITE an improvement! ;D

[Funmommy]

That is AWESOME!!!!!!!
We heat with wood and my Husband busts his backside every year to
keep us warm....and he's not getting any younger. ;)
That would save his/our aching bodies tons. :o
Too bad it probably costs a fortune. ::)

[Catalpa]

I can't get ANY of the links to work, but it sounds like something we could get a lot of use out of!

[jebrown]

From the design of the tractor part it looks like a Ditchwitch product.

[Anon001]

catalpa,

Just go to the firewoodprocessor.net website. Click on the videos. Then under dialup or broadband click on the video #3.

[doiknwya]

Oh how nice that would be.... I bet it's very expensive! I can always dream, I am just glad it finally warming up so I am not having to cut anymore wood until I feel like it.

[TheWind]

That is so great! I wonder if that is a readily available attachment...

[bookwormom]

none of the links worked, so I just googled firewoodprocessor and bingo, a whole bunch of them came up. I am afraid they are all out of my price range.

[bookwormom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmKBDIAXd0

this hopefully works

[sissy]

Thats so neat, & no download to watch it. It would be sooo nice to have one of those.
Sissy

[rantinraven]

That machine is amazing! too bad a community couldn't go in and get one and then just run it to split all the logs. That would save a heck of a lot in individual chainsaw gas/oil, and achy backs!

[flatwater]

That would be a good deal provided they had a bobcat to run it. Let see , the machine itself is probably 7 to 10 thousand and a good used bobcat about 10 to 15 thousand. You would only need about 40 in the community to put in 500 apiece which is pretty do-able. The hard part would be finding a small community that 40 people burn wood and or a community that allows wood burning

[CarolAnn]

I'd like to get a good close look at the star splitting head.

When he was 72, my dad built a hydraulic wood splitter for almost nothing: he got the ram from an old backhoe by approaching the county judge where he lived in arkansas & told him he "Split wood for old people and was looking for cheap or free parts." (The "old people" was himself, the rascal!) But the judge gave him an old hydraulic ram for under $50 and he built the rest from pieces of junk. His splitter was three axe heads welded together to make a single long splitting face. If he'd welded them into a star shape, he'd have made all the splits at once rather than one at a time. The body of his splitter was made from the I-beam from under a burned out trailer house and Dad sat on a tractor seat he'd attached. I remember it had wheels and a tongue that could be attached like a trailer to a pickup's ball hitch. I'd put on a length of log, Dad pulled back on the lever and the ram shoved the log up to the axe heads and forced it to split. Mom picked up the pieces and threw them on the back of the pickup. The three of us waded through a lot of wood that way! Dad's splitter even ate though gum, which is very VERY hard to split, including gnarly tree crotches - it would split absolutely anything we fed into it.

I believe something like this (maybe a bit less automated) could be built by a handy mechanic.

[ArmySGT.]

http://www.hahnmachinery.com/fp160.html

The website for the company that makes it, is at the end of the video.

::)