Firewood Processor

Spectacular! What a machine! Keep the video coming.
R

Nice progress on the wood prosesser . Looks like will handle anything you want to run through it. Should be a nice machine when all done and painted up. Great craftsmanship, keep up the nice work.

The wood processor has seen some serious progress. It will greatly reduce the sweat quotient for a cord of wood.
Michael

Been a while since I updated or for that matter got to work on this project.
In my defence, the machine shop stays in the 60's all summer, well insulated and shaded. We've been getting 90 deg weather with high humidity for the last month. If I open the big doors to get this out all my machines are instantly covered in condensation when the warm wet air comes in.
Enough excuses.
The next step was to build a live deck to feed the logs. It will fold out beside the machine with #90 roller chain on top of the bunks to skid the logs along.
I found 24 inches of 1 3/8 4 tpi acme rod, believe it was levelling scaffolding. I threaded a 4 inch section which I later cut in 3 for the bottom of the legs.


Since I couldn't get the machine outside I built the deck in the folded position. Was quite a job getting the bunks all level and square before welding in hopes that they unfold properly when I get it outside. Had to build a double pinned hinge to get 180 degree rotation for folding.


Now I need to get it outside to add a small channel to the top of the bunks for a chain guide and install the drag chains.

Greg

Thanks for the update, I would like to do some real world testing on that for a week or so. How in the world will you ever get it painted?

Painting is going to be a serious job Rick. I usually disassemble everything to get paint on all the surfaces but this time there's too many parts to even think about it, let alone fine enough space too spread the parts out. It will get a good degreasing and pressure washing then start spraying. I can put it up on the car hoist to get the underside, that will help.
Got it outside today to verify the hinge system on the log deck worked .


Greg

I wonder how many thousands of hay bales I had to pick up and stack during my high school summers. Most produced by one of those evil Wisconsin motors - and no matter how hard I prayed the sucker would never break.

Groundhog said:

I wonder how many thousands of hay bales I had to pick up and stack during my high school summers. Most produced by one of those evil Wisconsin motors - and no matter how hard I prayed the sucker would never break.

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Yup, before stellite valves they were nasty buggers. And vapor lock ! Masters of the art of vapor locking.

uncle harry said:

Yup, before stellite valves they were nasty buggers. And vapor lock ! Masters of the art of vapor locking.

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Explain to me how stellite valves prevent vapor locking. I'm at a complete loss as to correlation.

Rick Berk said:

Explain to me how stellite valves prevent vapor locking. I'm at a complete loss as to correlation.

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Rick Berk said:

Explain to me how stellite valves prevent vapor locking. I'm at a complete loss as to correlation.

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Nothing that I can think of. Just two unrelated maladies of the earlier Wisconsin engines. Pre-stellite valves would fail often.