Well folks, I really dit it now

[ropensaddle]

just a little tip for a cheap conveyor... try a farm elevator like what was used for ear corn and small square hay bales. we picked up a pair of old ones at an auction for a couple hundred bucks. no one really uses them any more and ya cant hardly give em away. just a thought...

Thanks, I have spent several months at the receiving end of a square bail conveyer brings back memories lol

PS judging by the poll I need to get busy to pay for this thing so I am going to see what I can do alone today pics soon to follow. I have the grand babies today so, I may only get a few hours to work but That should tell me what can be produced! Thanks for everyone's input I am thinking of putting fliers up in stores and a newspaper add and will be including it on my tree service adds next year to effectively stay busy all year. For the guy's that sell firewood do you get allot of calls for it or is it random? I am not sure if I am going retail or wholesale there is a stove outlet that will buy big quantities at wholesale probably 100 per cord dumped on their lot. I am thinking of getting a dual tandem 18 foot dump trailer so I can haul four cords per trip!

 

[Mike Van]

I thought the photo would show a bandsaw mill - Oh well, that'd be for another thread I guess - Nice splitter rope!

 

[ropensaddle]

My start rain stopped me

Ok I started here not much before a shower got the cam wet and had to come back to the house. I can already see I will need the table grate but it handled this 40" red oak like a champ I have some bigger stuff but will quarter it. My cam got wet hope it did not fry sorry about the pic quality I will dry it out and get started as soon as this shower quits. The last pic is the pile I did with the troybuilt which I am going too sell it is not a bad splitter just to slow to get all I bring home each yearPS that pile is around ten foot tall
and 35 foot wide at its widest point I have another near the house that is prolly 2 cords from early spring efforts.

 

[Straightgrain]

Nice splitter, would you mind splitting up my troy built splitter for scrap iron (pot metal)?:greenchainsaw:

 

[Mike Van]

Nice splitter, would you mind splitting up my troy built splitter for scrap iron (pot metal)?:greenchainsaw:

Five cents/pound - Thats what I got for 3300 lbs. last week - [no splitters in the load]

 

[stihl sawing]

From the forecast You will be splitting in the rain all week. We got a good thunder shower here this morning. Bet you did too.

 

[ropensaddle]

Well I worked off and on today cause the grand babies and the heat so maybe 3 1/2 hours.
I had to get the logs out of the piles move the splitter saw the rounds and still got almost two cords cut and stacked. I will have to get the table I was throwing a big quarterd log that had a half split and somehow my finger got in the crack just when the log hit the anvil and ouch! I probably could have got more split if I did not stack. I will like my machine and when it cools down can see much better production. I will work some in the mourning before heading out to get paid to clear shooting lanes for a deer stand and maybe a little when I get back. Then I will take another picture!

 

[stihl sawing]

Well I worked off and on today cause the grand babies and the heat so maybe 3 1/2 hours.
I had to get the logs out of the piles move the splitter saw the rounds and still got almost two cords cut and stacked. I will have to get the table I was throwing a big quarterd log that had a half split and somehow my finger got in the crack just when the log hit the anvil and ouch! I probably could have got more split if I did not stack. I will like my machine and when it cools down can see much better production. I will work some in the mourning before heading out to get paid to clear shooting lanes for a deer stand and maybe a little when I get back. Then I will take another picture!

Must be nice. All I ever get is sweatty.lol

 

[ropensaddle]

Must be nice. All I ever get is sweatty.lol

Lmao I will be bush hogging then cutting trees and getting rid of the brush and wood and grinding his stumps! It is what I call a fun day

 

[stihl sawing]

Lmao I will be bush hogging then cutting trees and getting rid of the brush and wood and grinding his stumps! It is what I call a fun day

You must be cutting new lanes. Usually just need to be mowed and some brushcutting.

 

[ropensaddle]

You must be cutting new lanes. Usually just need to be mowed and some brushcutting.

Yeah a nice buck was playing hide and seek with him last year lol. He has one of those nice tower blinds and wants a view in the adjacent pasture where two huge oaks drop acorns! I need the work he also wants a cord of twelve inch firewood so going to be busy!

 

[mtfallsmikey]

Five cents/pound - Thats what I got for 3300 lbs. last week - [no splitters in the load]

Just out of curiosity Mike...how much were you getting a pound last year during the scrap metal mania days?

 

[Mike Van]

Just out of curiosity Mike...how much were you getting a pound last year during the scrap metal mania days?

A few guys said it was 3X that, just before the 'big crash'