Just my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions.....
Here's my 2 cents..
Quick background info, I know a guy here in CT with a chomper. His full time job is a bridge mechanic/machinist for Amtrack 2nd shift. He owns a land clearing/firewood business on the side and works that during the day as he can.
I heat my house with an indoor wood boiler and burn 6 +/- cords of wood a year, and sell probalby that much again to neighbors/relatives. I process it all with a MS460 and tractor moutned/powered splitter. I load it by hand and have a home made dump trailer which will handle a cord thrown in loose. 12 cords a year is not a lot of volume I know, but its not really a lot of work. I'm in the process now of turning an old hay elevator into a conveyor so I don't have to load the trailer any more. Also my grandfather is 75, has been a stone mason all his life now retired, and still processes about 30 or 40 cords a year all with a saw/splitter and a non-dumping flatbed truck. He burns 8 cords for his house, about 8 cords making maple syrup and sells the rest. Not bad for 75. Don't get me wrong its work and his body is shot but he still does it.
Anyway back to my advice, the guy I know who works for Amtack has a chomper but I don't remember what model, its big though, 100 hp or more J Deere diese. It works well for the most part. Not a ton of maintenance to do and he has not had any major problems,
BUT...
the wood has to be really straight or pretty small. He has left some stuff at a jobs for me because he couldn't process it numerous times. The wood was nice white oak, prob 12-14" diameter but was kinda crooked. It was fine for me because I cut it with a saw and split it with tractor/pto powered splitter.
Also, sgtm8411, you speak of using a skid steer or something similar to load the wood into dump truck/trailer etc. There are 2 disadvantages I see with this speaking from personal experience...
1) This is very had to do with the wood in a loose pile. It tends to just spill back out of the bucket. Having a grapple bucket helps because you can clamp down on a load of wood.
2) The wood on the bottom of the pile gets pretty dirty and customers will complain. Also you pick up all the splinters, wood chips, etc which are in the pile too.
I know you are looking at a converyor, if at all possible try to process as much wood directly into the truck/trailer as possible and not have to stock pile a ton. It will help keep the wood clean, and less handling in the long run.
Don't know if that will help at all but just opinions from personal experience. Either way good luck with the business.