Seems to work okay...
Video
Seems to work okay...
Video
How do you determine which logs are Rednecks? :-)
TDD
Man, there's an accident ready to happen ;)
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Jeff
These are the best:
What's with the bark removal drum? These logs going to be burned at a black and white ball?
nb
Nah, he has gloves on!
Dunno:
Jeff
Works for me
I believe that's so the local convenience store in the burbs can sell the stuff by the bag to folks who want to put the bag in the trunk of their Audi.
That is quite the machine. If somebody gave me one [and a woodlot of birch] I might go back to burning wood.
Jim
I'll stick with my 26 ton hydraulic, thank you very much. I have had logs go flying, and other incidents that would indicate every log splitter comes with a gallon of liquid Murphy's law paint.
Steve
"Jim Elbrecht" wrote
Now THAT is the business I want. Selling one cubic foot of wood for $5!
Buy it for $100 a cord (or cut it yourself for $10, and bag it up), sell it for $640 a cord. Hey, I could afford an Audi. Forget that, how about a Ferrari?
Steve
Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend.
Fuck I don't know, email them and see what's up.
75% of my heat in winter is wood. 4 chords usually does it since I use natural gas for the 8 hours I sleep. I save around 500 a year in fuel since the wood is purchased from a friend who does landscaping, sells mulch and seasoned split wood. I get it for 80 a cord.
Rough calculations gives a break even of about $820/4 = $205/chord.
Good deal at $85. It's hard to find cheap wood here, unless you get it yourself. I've given up on that!
Jeff
100% of my heat is wood fired boiler with h/w baseboard. I burn wood 24/7 for 6 months and my house is warm as toast. It don't take much fire to keep the boiler at 210 degrees. Cellar is warm, floors are warm, house is warm. Run around bare footed when it's 20 below and the wind is blowing 40mph. Takes me 4 cords a year. But that rotating splitter??? I'd call it a splitter and finger remover. I have a 20 ton bidirectional 3 point hitch splitter that is fast enough.
My city has a "yard waste" pickup schedule (it alternates months with "heavy trash"). Or, the city says, you can take your yard waste to the collection center.
I haven't checked, but I'll bet the city wouldn't mind if you hauled off a pickup load of logs...
'Course you'd have to have a home-made splitter like we saw in the video!
You lose. They won't allow any salvage at all. I go to the dump, and see bicycles and all sorts of things I would like to bag. They won't let you take anything, and for insurance purposes, you cannot load anything that is there.
Steve
Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend.
Hmm. Re-use is better than recycle. I see ads every day on Craigslist for "free" firewood (somebody cut down a dead tree).
Perhaps I could persuade the city to pile up the "logs" in a separate section for homeowners to carry away. During the winter, it would seem a couple of cords a day taken for residential fireplaces would make a dent in the landfill requirements.
My brother lives on the edge of a glacial valley (Cleveland, Oh) and whatever the Park cuts is left by the roadside. Anyone can take it.
Beautiful, eh? Except the suburb he lives in does allow wood stoves.
So free wood, already cut, just behind the house, but you can't burn it!
As far as the splitter, it's ingenious and mimics the way people split wood. By impact, rather than forcing the splitter through. And it has the same hazards.
Jeff
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