Been wanting to build something like this for quite a while. Well it happened. Much of my firewood is from thinning my woods and 6-8" diameter and will not get split. I usually use a machine to hold it up off the ground because I didn't have this. Hopefully it will work as nicely as I imagined it would. It's about 11' long and almost 6' across with 8'' spacing so the crap will fall through and my "rounds" won't. I'll load 4-5 "sticks" 16'-18' long with the tractor, block them up and put them directly on a rack. At least that what I had "imagined"
That looks very practical. You'll have to be careful not to slice the ribs, though I guess they're replaceable.
I'm sure I'll nick them here & there, but it's all screwed together so when a repair is needed it shouldn't be a big deal.
cool looking piece of "FHC backyard engineering" if possible can you post a video of it in action as im curious to see. Just dont do a butcher job on the logs!
Brad I'm at the extreme of my abilities/limits now just posting a picture. .....and I'm on Hughesnet. If for some miraculous fluke of luck I was able to, it would take several day's to load a 3 minute vid.
I could have used a set up like that a couple weeks ago. Might have to pirate your idea if you don’t mind. Keep us posted on how well it works
Looks like that will work well for cutting those 6" to 8" logs even bigger if need be. Nice Job fuelrod
Mike I had mostly used metal roof panels but now I'm getting into rubber roofing. They both blow off but it seems the rubber is a little less prone to the wind. The good (and bad) thing is it's very heavy, especially a large section, nice waist level stacks would not to too bad to cover but I like to go up to 6' and that's a real chore. I'm really thinking of a building for the stacks and forget about it.
I loaded it up with the pita stuff that I hate cutting and hate wasting it. Made my back feel better and my chain stay sharp. This is not exactly what I built it for but it work well.
I'm happy with it. Cut up some bigger Beech and 1 it was out of the mud 2 I didn't have to bend over to saw it 3 It was near waist lever to carry over to the splitter. (I cut @ 26" and they get heavy fast at that length) 4 I got the lumber bill and it was $90. Money well spent so far.
