Fire Wood Processor

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Anyone who heats with wood appreciates the amount of energy that goes into getting the tree to stove wood. For those not familiar with wood processors, its a machine that reduces logs that are fed into it with a loader, to split firewood.
This is what I cut up each year.

We're getting too old for that much work. So its time to mechanize the operation.
Today I dug one of my old Wisconsin engines out to see whether we can get a power source.
Here it is with the ducting off the head and cylinder.




There was no compression at all. Both exhaust valves were stuck open.
There's bad scoring in both cylinders, think I'll grab another one tomorrow and see if its any beter.



If not guess we can bore it out and go oversize on the pistons.