Ot: firewood processor

JayinNY · Aug 16, 2012

Just got a couple cords of cut split firewood, iv never had it delivered cut and split, but my father bought 2 loads for himself, and a load for my brother and me. He asked the guy to cut the logs 24 inchs long, when the guy delivered the first load we couldent believe how inconsistent the lengths were. I mean pieces 6 inches, 19, 22 all different sizes. We now u have a cretin amount of end cuts, but this was amazing. Guy said they use a timberwolf processor. I was just wondering if anybody knows anything about processors, if that is normal, or these guys don't know how to run it! I really dident care it all burns, but stacking it isn't fun!

Ivan in Mich · Aug 16, 2012

I would say they did not know how to run it. I have one that I built and most of my wood is cut to within a inch of each other.

Russ from MN · Aug 16, 2012

I think I can eyeball them to within 1 1/2 inch!

RodinNS · Aug 16, 2012

Could be a lot of reasons.... The Timberwold, IIRC, has a rather imprecise measure on it. Just dangles a chain over where the end needs to be. So you could get a couple inches variance either way on that. Most of the euro processors use a hard measure that retracts during the cut... but it is a physical stop when advancing the log. So that accounts for the 19-22" variance. The 6" piece... probably just an end nub.

Could also be that he loaded you out of a precut pile(s) of different length wodd just to clean up odds and ends. The old man was hell for that kind of thing here... have the cutters chop a whole damn pile random lengths and then have to go sort it out afterwards. Never have the length you need to you get a lot of different stuff in the order...

Rod

Red Mud · Aug 16, 2012

I'd like to have a processor like this.
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