breaking down large timber

[clunk]

I've been looking at how to break down large diamiter timber to put it through my processor looking at 10 to 12ft long uwards of 3ft diamiter straight grain wood.
i'm wondering if anyone has tryed welding a blade to the bottom of a excavator bucket put the end of the timber against the blade or sub frame and pull the blade through the log

 

[Treemover]

Cone splitters are what a lot of big chipping outfits use; or go for a bladed grab like a woodcracker.

 

[farmerm]

Push it into the wood and then go cut down some more manageable timber

 

[farmgineer]

You can get plankers which attach to your chainsaw, take some setting up by some accounts but do a decent job. Going to be having a play with one soonish, just need to get round to it

 

[bumkin]

I've been looking at how to break down large diamiter timber to put it through my processor looking at 10 to 12ft long uwards of 3ft diamiter straight grain wood.
i'm wondering if anyone has tryed welding a blade to the bottom of a excavator bucket put the end of the timber against the blade or sub frame and pull the blade through the log

what sort of wood is? it it seems a shame to process good timber of that proportion

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Just ring it with saw and use vertical splitter

 

[ACEngineering]

I've been looking at how to break down large diamiter timber to put it through my processor looking at 10 to 12ft long uwards of 3ft diamiter straight grain wood.
i'm wondering if anyone has tryed welding a blade to the bottom of a excavator bucket put the end of the timber against the blade or sub frame and pull the blade through the log

Dad made a trunk splitter using a skip lorry ram. Have to cut down to about 6 or 7ft lengths but would be a struggle lifting bigger bits in imo and still got to handle it in to processor after.

Main thing is its saves hours of ringing up and the wood drys out alot easier when split.

 

[agrimax]

Liked this bit of innovation....... Need a dozer but.....

Big Tree Trunk Splitter

A problem has been building up for some time in the yard. Namely a whole lot of tree trunks that are far too big for the Palax processor which really only has a capacity of 10 inch diameter logs. I hate the work involved with chainsawing into lumps then hiring a big hydraulic splitter and picking...

arbtalk.co.uk

 

[milton-95]

We bodged this together a few years ago

The blade was a tool off of a press I think

 

[Kidds]

There’s a fella on Arbtalk concreted a bloody big blade into the ground and pushes the trunks through it with a dozer

 

[agrimax]

As in post 8 above....

 

[clunk]

We bodged this together a few years ago

The blade was a tool off of a press I think

That's what I was thinking good way to break it down

 

[Fievel Farmanimal]

 

[glasshouse]

What a machine
Rufus roughcut!!