Some of the logs in that video, namely the last few, could have been milled, surely? Or are they low value lumber in a high value lumber area, such that there is more value as firewood? I mean, other than a pretty cool demo-video purpose, would they really be used for firewood in the real world?
Slightly OT, sorry, but I was just looking at 20Ha of mature pine forest land, with some good subdivision and residential building potential (great sea views one side and rural views the other). The trees have never been managed and a large %, if not all, not worth milling. I wonder how well they'd go through something like that blockbuster or CRD Metalworks' rapido loco model.
Also, those larger logs in the video, and ones that didn't centralise before the ram was engaged (a big drop drown to the cradle/chute), are producing splits too big to be merchantable here and would require re-splitting, defeating the purpose of spending megabucks on such a processor to begin with I would have thought. Unless there's some sort of two-stage separator that first separates the debris and then the acceptable sized firewood before dropping the re-splits to another station?
I wonder if they could stagger a second ring of knives to help reduce the number of re-splits needed? It would create a fair bit of extra debris though. On that note, I did see someone had hydraulically adjustable concentric knives. I thought it might have been these guys:
http://www.pezzolato.it , who do some very interesting splitters and processors. If you go to that site, look up the vertical "X" knife and the indexed feed conveyor combo. It looks interesting.
