I had been around wood sawing and general firewood for many years. I have Woodmizer saw (LT30). This means there is also a large supply of slab firewood at my shop. I wanted to design my own processor and looked around at the various options available. I had a two jobs to accomplish with this processor design - slabs and split firewood and I wanted one machine to do both. Lots of chainsaw and buzz saw experience led me to lean in the large blade direction based on the blade maintenance and speed differences. I found a Ø 26-1/2" Carbide blade on Ebay. I bought the blade and started to layout how the new machine could work. I came up with a layout that I had not seen anyone else do - I wondered if it would ever work - but I went ahead and built it anyhow.
I Built a crazy wood processor
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Any pics maybe? Not enough info, but the title has me excited. Don't let me down, Jmur!
Pro-e model looks like a good start. Pro-e / Creo the gift that keeps giving, just a joke as we users only curse it 3 times a day at work.
Looks like it will be "Made in Canada" this is a good thing.
Looks like it will be "Made in Canada" this is a good thing.
This story starts with me finding a large (Ø28") blade on ebay, buying it and laying out several concept assemblies to use it in.
This is the final/original design assembly I came up with:
Link seems to be dead. I can't click it and there is no pic in the post.
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Easy Livin’ 3000
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I curse Pro-E Every time I see a file come in from a customer......
Here is the machine as built! There are a number of added components, and more to come.
Thanks for the pic. Very cool. It's weird that the first pic doesn't show up for me, but all the others do, as well as the video.
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Easy Livin’ 3000
Minister of Fire
Dude, that's awesome. You just need a stool to rest on while you're running it. But I'm sure you already thought of that.
One question- how did you decide on a circular saw rather than a chainsaw? Can you get blades for that down at home despot?
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Minister of Fire
Thanks ED 3000!:
The blade was really the whole reason the project got started. I saw the blade on Ebay and went from there. I was able to buy several of these blades used. They can be resharpened as required. The blades are the Ø28" XL 4000 - available from several vendors online.
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I changed out the engine (from 15 hp to 20 hp twin Honda) and main cylinder (from 5 to 4inch diameter)
It is now noticeably faster.
It is now noticeably faster.
No sir - It will cut up to approx 18" diameter. If you watch the video a little farther up in this thread (Oct 6, 2017), you will see the double cut in the middle of the video. The saw moves like a sliding radial arm saw.
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I had some high level testing on the processor this year. I ran a double trailer load of mixed knotty maple though and found the rate of damage jump up drastically. I posted this video that gives an idea of the crooked winding logs requiring constant winching- and if you wait till the end it shows the moment the lower wedge was sheared clean off.
I called it Homemade Wood Processor has a Bad Day
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I called it Homemade Wood Processor has a Bad Day
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Made a mod to the processor to allow slabs to be cut. Works pretty decent!
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