I’d love to eventually work it up to something like this setup with a mini excavator loading a log table and having a skid steer or tractor auxiliary hydraulics power the processor/ conveyor/ log table.
I’m finding most of those manufacturers are in the eau Claire WI area which would be a good day trip for me to visit a couple of them.
There’s definitely some big iron out there. a Cat D7 for the army guard. It was right up around 65,000 on the deck.
Lol. You give me waaaay too much credit! That is some serious wood amd it would have me running a lot of options and numbers through my mind.
The fact it’s for several years running is the part that got me… we’re meeting at the current 9 acre project he’s in that’s just 4 miles from our place on Friday.
I've seen guys running splitters using big tractors. Yes, it works but it never made sense to me to run that big expensive machine where a much less expensive and smaller engine. mounted on the splitter would work just as well.
The idea came from a guy running a wolfe ridge splitter and he had tapped into it to run a range road log table and feeder. I want to put a mini excavator in between the log table and a wood pile and use it with a grapple to feed the table. Less driving that way with a skid steer or a tractor.
If I was looking down the barrel of 2,000 cords, I'd want as much convenience as possible. A little splitter trash would not concern me in the least. 2,000x$400/cord= .
We just spent the weekend visiting daughter in Minneapolis. Her hub works for U of Minnesota. One of his co workers is a kinda retired farmer north of the Cities? The farmer sells firewood on the side in the city for $560 a full cord + delivery. If I asked $560 a cord down here in Southern Wisconsin I would hear crickets
If I asked that I might get locked up...and rightly so. It sounds like prices are whatever the market will bear.
