New chainsaw Dyna SC-15

The family firewood business has went well enough that had a Dyna SC-15 built. My son and I got to have lunch with huskihl and Backwoods Savage the day before we picked up the equipment.

We have 24 hours on the machine now. Wish I would’ve bought one sooner. It has the 38efi Kohler, auto stop and auto split are the big add ons. We have processed 25 cords in the 20 hours of run time. My wife and 2 boys also operate the processor. With my son loading the deck and my wife moving the dump trailer and leveling the pile. We can load 2 cords between 55 minutes and an 1:20 with the 3 of us. Getting rid of the firewood from under the conveyor has been the biggest challenge.

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Very nice Rope, congrats!
My brother had a buddy with a firewood business and he bought one like that (model number? It would do 20" max IIRC) a few year back...he brought it over for the inaugural run and we had 4 guys running it...the owner at the controls, my brother and I were sorting through the log pile to get logs that were of size and shape that might actually be able to go through the machine, and then a nephew helping keep logs feeding well/etc.
The owner was green on it, and still getting things set up properly, we stopped for a long lunch, still made a pile that we calculated to be 10 cords by the end of the day...something like 6 hours run time on the machine I think...I'm sure it would make MUCH more with straight logs of the proper size, and some experience!
Unfortunately that machine and a HUGE pile of firewood was lost in a fire on the 4th of July a few years later...

 

Thank you fellas. We are tickled to have it. It’s a 3 cord a hour machine. Our best is 2. If I had a big payloader we with a couple yard bucket to clear under the conveyor and a better machine to load maybe 3 cords. With a 25” bar , 22” diameter and 22 foot log, they say. My logs are 25 feet, as long as the butt end is at the saw, no issues. The bigger logs require resplits. A 8”-12” log with no resplits, you could cruise right along. I have a 4,6 and 8 way knife.

 

Sweet machine! Fun to watch it do its thing.

Watched one in February at the guys wood yard I cut PT for.

What species have you run through it Rope?

 

White spruce. Only other species we have is Aspen and White Birch (I don't see any of that) We are 99% spruce and spread the 1% between the two other species. It rolls right through. We are extremely happy with.

 

Congratulations on the business growing so much and the purchase of a nice processor. Looks very nice.

 

Good luck with it. Nothing like a NEW piece of equipment.

 

Holy wow! Awesome post Rope I'm sure that takes quite a load of your body and mind. Congrats.

 

Wanna go halves on one?

 

Congratulations Rope!! A video in future would be great.
So rough numbers at start are 3 person hours, 1 machine hour = roughly 2 cords? Without including wood sourcing, delivery etc?

 

Congrats on the new equipment and on getting to meet 2 of FHC's finest!!

 

Thank you Sir. We are truly blessed. When I realized that it was easier to count how many gallons of bar oil we ran through each saw vs how much fuel. That's when we started to think we need some help.

 

Yes Sir! And a turn n burn road trip Alaska to Michigan 7,250 miles in 9 days. Save a tad over $24,500 by going and getting it. By the time we got her home- felt like old friends.

 

Thank you Sir, it sure does. We cut, split and delivered 142 cords from Oct 1st to June 25th. We have 24 cords cut, split and delivered since we got her set up July 6th. That has been in 10 days running the machine. Have 4 cords to do when I get home from work and 200 bundles to do by Thursday. It has definitely taken a load off our shoulders. I haven't been sore since we got home with her.

 

Yes Sir that is correct. Once we get used to our new jobs, we may be able to tighten those numbers up. Honestly, I am happy with where we are with production. If we were just making piles of wood, it may go faster as long as you could move it out from under the conveyor efficiently. My son is doing well loading the log deck. If he has to get off the tractor and help somewhere else, he gets behind keeping logs on the deck. It really has bought back a good bit of our time and we are not wiped out at days end.

 

For sure it was great having lunch with the fellas. Wish we could have spent more time with them.

 

Running the machine is the easy part. Keeping it fed and room under the conveyor seems to be the challenge. I hate to hear about the misfortune, I hope he has recovered.

The spruce poles we run are keeping us right there. No real complaints with what we have to process. Resplits eat time as well as un-clogging up the grizzly bars at the top of the conveyor. We will finish this month with doing 30-32 cords this month. We had one 4-day weekend we got to salmon fish at Valdez.

 

Yeah we just kept pushing the pile down with a rake...pita, but since this was a one day setup, good enough
I believe in his normal setup he runs the splits right into a dump trailer, then runs that over to their giant woodshed where it gets dumped and pushed into a huge pile with the loader.
I'm not sure how he made out after the fire...I know the insurance company was fighting him on it because the fire marshal said it was arson, but there were no cameras to prove anything, so they blamed it on him. Made no sense to me, why would you wanna torch a machine that's paying for itself, and then some?!