tree cutter 08
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I started building one the other day. I'll snap a few pics soon. Going to have a worktable on the back about 30 inches high and a log lift arm.
I started building one the other day. I'll snap a few pics soon. Going to have a worktable on the back about 30 inches high and a log lift arm.
Hydro all the way. Look at a timber wolf tw 6. I run this machine daily. If I were going to build one, I'd pattern it after this machine. Or, if I had a bobcat, I'd build one to attach to the front of it.
We build half cord boxes with skids underneath to pick up with a set of forks. We stack the wood in the boxes and dump it into a 450 dump truck. When we get to the customers house, we just dump and go unless it's a widowed woman or the man tips extra. You will lose time and money stacking. The money is made before cold cold days or snow days. If you stack every delivery, you'll lose money. We had a $3000 day right before the last snow. I will probably buy out the firewood business when the boss retires from the tree work
How long does it take you to split a cord of wood with that splitter? Been thinking about selling wood just because we have so much chunk and scrap oak its hard to give it all away. Only way I'd do it is to split into a big shed and load with a grapple and sell by the dump truck load.
You should look into a super splitter for your good wood. With fairly clean wood, that's close to the splitter, 2 guys can bust a cord in under a hour. That's wide open and you can go. I timed it one time helping a friend and we had a cord in 45 minutes. 12 to 16 inches diameter is the best size. Smaller will slow you down and bigger will to.
I work for a big tree company, and I'm in charge of firewood. We sell about $50-70,000 a year in firewood. We sell by the row, truck load, 1/2 cord or full cord. We don't sell pine or poplar although I burn poplar. As far as all other wood, that splitter never slows down. I've busted some pretty rough hickory with it no problem.
A lot of people are using more wood nowadays even if they don't need it for heat. They buy it for outdoor burn pits or kitchens. As cold as this winter was, we sold out of seasoned wood 3 weeks ago, and some people are still buying green wood.
build us one of these muzzy