Show Me Your DIY Wood Conveyor !

[archertwo]

cowtipper, I just thought that if I had a 1" lip at 90degrees to start with on both sides then 2" for the second bend then go down 7" at an angle nothing specific just something I thought would let the wood slide easily, then 8" after that for the top of the conveyor. The other piece was straight down 6" then for the base of tha conveyor I wanted 8" since I had a 7" belt I was going to be using inside and wanted a bit of leeway both sides.
Adding 1" to 2" to 7" twice then adding the base which is 8" I got 28" for the trough part of the conveyor. The second piece which is the box under the trough is 6" high and 8" wide so 6" twice plus 8" which just happend to add up to 48" which is the width of a sheet of steel.
I was actually pretty apprehensive about the 1/16" steel plate since when we took it to the press it bent over and was actually touching the floor between the shop guy and myself but when it took the first 1" 90 degree bent it stiffened up pretty fast.

Here's a pic of the conveyor when I had just finished assembling it. This is what it looks like when it's folded over. It actually sits updide down over the processor for travel.
If you look carefully you can see wnere it hooks up to the wood splitter part of the processor.

Junkfxr, that was the hardest part to figure out.

 

[cowtipper]

Thanks for the detail archertwo. If can ask one more question, do you have a photo of each end... thanks again

 

[Ductape]

I Second The More Pics !

Feel free to include a bunch of your procesor too.

 

[archertwo]

Here's a pic of the top end of the conveyor. Just used a flat roller here with a bit of weld and then tape in the middle to create a bump to keep it rolling straight.

Here's a a view of the bottom roller, the Charlynn motor and the Lovejoy coupling hookup.

Notice the bottom roller is a flat roller with 3/4" flat bar welded to it to give it grip.

Ducttape, all in due time. I'll have to start a new thread if I post pics of the processor. This is a thread for DIY wood conveyors.

 

[archertwo]

cowtipper, if you or anyone else wants more detail about the conveyor just ask. Info is always a good thing to have and is easily carried around, not at all hard on the back, and as easily passed on to someone else to make their life easier.

Ducttape, I'll be making a post soon entitled "archertwo's processor".

 

[ericjeeper]

Archertwo

I think you are going to fit in quite nicely around here.. Welcome to the site.

 

[archertwo]

Thanks ericjeeper.

 

[cowtipper]

Thanks archertwo... and welcome to thie site

 

[Blazin]

Very nice work!!

 

[epicklein22]

Snagged this monster for $250. 30ft. long, electric motor (plan on changing it to a gas later on), power up and down. Works well and is plenty fast. Should go along great with a Super Split come May when I place my order.

I snagged this out of Loudonville area, I know a lot of members are from that area. I really like it down there!

I will try to get some pictures of it out in the open and near a firewood pile.

 

[cowtipper]

Snagged this monster for $250. 30ft. long, electric motor (plan on changing it to a gas later on), power up and down. Works well and is plenty fast. Should go along great with a Super Split come May when I place my order.

I snagged this out of Loudonville area, I know a lot of members are from that area. I really like it down there!

I will try to get some pictures of it out in the open and near a firewood pile.

I'm only seeing little red X's

 

[Streblerm]

We have been using an old (unmodified) hay/grain elevator for about 7 years now. It was worn out when we got it, and it it is just a little bit more worn out now.

I don't know if there is any reason to replace the chains with a belt, we haven't. There is no binding and we split some big pieces for one guys OWB. We just lube the conveyor a little and so far no problems.

 

[epicklein22]

Let's try that again if the other ones aren't showing up....

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[cowtipper]

Let's try that again if the other ones aren't showing up....

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nice

 

[Blazin]

Nice score for $250!! I've been lookin here for awhile and they're pretty scarce for that kind of money.

 

[scdaddy7269]

Little late to the party.

 

[dannyrc]

Was going to use and old hay/grain elevator but they seem to have suddenly become valuable around here with all the horse farmer wannabes moving in. So I am building one right now to go along with the processor I just finished. Like the processor it is a low buck deal. The conveyor is largely made from used concrete form steel and junk scafolding that I purchased for scrap price. I will try to remeber the camera and get some pics of it. Mine is going to use belt instead of chain because belting was what I could find cheap, had it been chain for cheap I would have gone that route. My drive is going to be Chonda, (Harbor Freight Honda clone). They are on sale this month for $99 6.5 HP. I am thinking about going back and buying 2-3 more and putting them away. My old conveyor was a 12' single chain corn elevator and as somebody else said a chain outfit does suffer from the occasional wood splinter getting into places it should not be.

Love the old corn elevators! Try to buy any that I run across. Most people cut up for scrap metal when it was 240 dollars/ ton a few yrs ago. I bought a Harbor Freight engine for it also. I have a Dyna 12 xp wood processor, they work excellent together. As far as the splinter getting stuck in the return, I cut a section out of the bottom to let stuff fall out. Problem was immediately solved.

 

[cantoo]

Just brought home another grain elevator tonight. $100 and in tough shape but at least it's the easy parts to fix. Need new electric motor and a pulley. I already have a spare motor for it and pulley is only $50. I'm going to use this one for my 36" splits so I don't wreck my good one that I use for 18" splits. Pics later.

 

[muddstopper]

Bought a couple of belt conveyors from a old sawmill. Ones 14ft, the other 18ft., $100 each. I would take some pics, but the weeds are higher than the conveyors right now. I intend to use the 14ft one to feed logs to my processor and the 18ft one to off bear the splits. Both conveyors are 12in wide. I see some folks using 7-8in wide ones. Since I havent done any modifications yet, I am just wondering is there any advantage to being narrow or wide. Wait, did find a couple of pic's of when I picked them up.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

Wider is better. Mine is only about 12" or so and the splits once in a while jam up at the bottom if they spin sideways (16" lengths). Mine is 20ft long, it's a bit short, won't go tall enough to load my big truck which has sides about 12 ft tall.

The other one is about 2 ft wide, 30ft long and it works better. Also holds more which is handy too.