Fire Wood Processor

[PixMan]

R U serious BF? I have to ask because welding is to me what machining is to a seamstress.

Show me how it's done, please!

[Black Forest]

(06-07-2015, 08:58 PM)PixMan Wrote: R U serious BF? I have to ask because welding is to me what machining is to a seamstress.

Show me how it's done, please!

OK, I will make a video. Just sit tight and wait until it is uploaded!

[stevec]

Ken, I sorta figured that BF was being sarcastic. I don't know if Kanderners are known for that but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the video.  

 

Steve

[Black Forest]

OK Greg, winter is here and you haven't posted anything about your processor. Have you done any more work on it?

Pixman I am nearly done editing the video regarding welding Al to Steel. It's coming soon, just wait a bit!

[f350ca]

It got put on the back shelf for the summer, too many fun things to do. Hope to get back at it in the next couple of weeks. Actually presently deciding what to use for a frame.
Was given some 6x6 I beam, which would work but way over kill, or a buddy has two one tone truck frames welded end to end. He was going to use them for the bed of a sawmill but it warped when he was welding the tracks to the tops of the flanges of the frame.

[Highpower]

(12-15-2015, 02:00 PM)f350ca Wrote: Was given some 6x6 I beam,

Once again....

[f350ca]

As I said in an earlier post a buddy had mate'ed two truck frames with the intent of using it as a sawmill frame. Long and the short of it thats not happening so I hauled it home today to repurpose into a frame for the processor. Its currently 25 feet long, probably only need about 16 of those feet so it will get chopped. He'd built levelling legs and welded them down the sides, will probably use them.

[Vinny]

Looks like QC approves.

[Black Forest]

That frame looks like it will work well for your intended use. I know you have built your clamp for holding the log while sawing but you might want to investigate a top roller design. When using a firewood processor the first cut and the last cut on a log are the productivity drains on efficiency. The last cut on a log more so. When you raise a swinging clamp style such as you have built you lose control of the short piece that is left of the log allowing it to tip up or fall before it is cut. A powered roller stays in contact with the log the entire time the log is fed to the saw. There is the time factor of raising the toothed swing arm clamp such as you have built, feeding the log forward, lower the clamp and then cut. With a top roller design you just feed the log forward and cut. No loss of handling control of the log. Lots of time the last short piece of log falls crooked into the splitter before being cut if there is not much left to counterbalance the log. This all takes time to rectify therefor cutting into productivity. I have a very simple design of a top roller that is powered by the conveyor system if you are interested to see it. On my firewood processor the height of this top roller sets the height of the splitting wedge accounting for the diameter of the log. It saves a lot of operator fatigue by not having to constantly manually adjust the the height of the splitting wedge.

[f350ca]

Thanks, yes I'd be very interested in seeing your roller design. There's always room for improvement.