Wedge & Split Wood Platform - Log Splitter To Firewood Processor Ep. 1
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- Опубліковано 10 кві 2020
- Log splitter to firewood processor conversion. Taking an electric-hydraulic 7 tonne splitting force log splitter and converting it to a homemade firewood processor. The drawbacks of the current log splitter are the low height, single edge wedge and no firewood pan around the wedge so you have to constantly pick up pieces of wood you still want to split making the handling of the wood time consuming and annoying. Still better than splitting the wood with an axe though! Also you have to pre-cut the material you want to split. My plan is to put this log splitter on wheels, weld some steel to the trailer and around the wedge, add a log feed conveyor and a chain saw blade with separate electric motor and call it a firewood processor. It will make the firewood making process much simpler. Why haven't we done it sooner... It will take a log up to 3 m in length on the feed conveyor and a 35 cm cut log in the splitter since the stroke of the splitter is only 40 cm. I had to leave extra 5 cm wiggle room. But it's okay - our fireplaces are quite small. My sauna stove takes even as small as 25 cm firewood, and also my workshop stove. In addition to this creation I want to build firewood crates so we don't have to stack firewood ever again. And moving firewood will be as simple as that - just pick up the crate (with a machine) and deliver it wherever you want/need. No more re-re-re-stacking and unnecessary time consuming wood handling. Sounds like a TV commercial but it will be that good. Come along for the journey!
This video is part of a series of videos: • Firewood Processing
Check out my other videos on my channel page: / donndiy
#donndiy #homemade #firewood
Soundtrack:
Pomade - Silent Partner (UA-cam Audio Library)
Welding equipment borrowed from Spetselektroodi AS, Estonia:
Fronius TransSteel 2700 welder
Optrel Crystal 2.0 Welding Helmet
Hypertherm Powermax 45 XP plasma cutter - Авто та транспорт
The best and most fun to do way to spend time on the mountains during quarantine. Cutting logs, then turing them to fire wood and getting prepared for the winter
Way to go Donn, what a great project build!! Glad to see Grandpa out there, he still has the gotta do it attitude. What a blessed family. Really picked up more ideas from your videos. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred.
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Dude! I love your channel! No fluff or added conversation! Just builds and keep going! Great job!!! Keep all these vids coming!!!!
New project. Yay.
Plus the painted storage/toolbox on the Honda Foreman looks great.
Love it! I need to remove a nut that holds on a plastic cap in a recessed area and figure will end up doing as you did with the bushing... somehow!
We process the firewood manually the same way you showed in the first part of the video(well we have a logsplitter too). My father always says: "The wood will warm you at least 3 times - once when you lay it in the wood with a chainsaw, second when you chop it and the third time finally when you burn it." and I think it is a great workout haha!
i have the almost exact same splitter. you are giving me ideas. back pain avoiding ideas. thank you
This video is part of a series of videos:
ua-cam.com/play/PLkmF7FAZBzkVRPU6b-IeJVu91-frjF8v3.html
Check out my other videos on my channel page:
ua-cam.com/users/DonnDIY
Welding equipment borrowed from Spetselektroodi AS, Estonia:
Fronius TransSteel 2700 welder
Optrel Crystal 2.0 Welding Helmet
Hypertherm Powermax 45 XP plasma cutter
Ottima idea a costo zero!!!!.
Buona Pasqua😃😃😃
Did you pre heat the hardox before welding?
good work.
with good equipment its a lot more pleasant
Привет . Каждый твой выпуск видео жду с нетерпением . Очень познавательно . По возможности я сам что то изобретаю , что бы облегчить свой труд , в той или иной ситуации . Спасибо за ответ ! Здоровья и успехов !
Gott sei Dank, neues, geiles Projekt!!! Was würde ich drum geben, wenn ich auch so ein Talent hätte...Genial
Beside the fact that you always build things like (better than ???) a pro, I love the fact that you take us with you during the design... "the way is as important as the goal itself", so thank you for sharing these moments....
Sie/Dich als Nachbarn und Freund und für jedes Problem fänden wir eine Lösung,schöner Gedanke.Schöne Ostern und Gesundheit
Danke!
You have got to be the most creative builder around! You have good common sense too and obviously good practical experience. Thank you so much for sharing the ideas. I know it must take a lot of effort to create these videos. Thanks.
Thanks for taking the time to watch. It does take time both to film and edit these videos. So I really appreciate that someone actually watches too. 😀
Can't wait for next video
Next video next week! 💪
Thanks for this one!! I am sure I will follow this build to! Like your way of filming.
I have been watching this one while burning wood in my home made garden fireplace, no better way to watch 🤣
EPIC part 1, hooked on this one Donn. Awesome project
Your a very clever man great video so satisfying watching logs being split
Nice to see you aren't sitting by the fire with your feet up! Looking forward to seeing the rest of this build.
The rest of the build continues next week same time. 💪
Good to see you already got another project on the go.
Will be following it closely.
Thanks !
I have loads of projects in the very long "to-do" list. No worries of running out of projects. 😉
Interesting project. I do manual processing as well handle the wood many times. Up to 2 years ago I split by axe and finally got my first woodsplitter which runs off tractor hydraulics. My parents are near 70 years of age and they still split the old way and sell 50-60 cords of wood a year.
When you're finished with this log splitter, that bad boy will be able to grab'm, crack'm and stack pack'm all in one motion. AWESOME my friend! 👍👍 Jay.
I"m glad to see that your electric splitter works so well. I had one and returned it. It wasn't able to split basic logs.
Definitely not for Hardwoods
You’re going to take all the fun out of getting your firewood. lol I’ve always enjoyed cutting, splitting my firewood.stay safe
Enjoy your efforts. Look forward to seeing more. Addicting as This Old Tony.
After seeing the size of stove, I now understand why you cut/split them down so small. Yea, firewood has always equaled a lot of hard work. Cheers :)
Thank you for the video. The world appreciates it during this time to stay at home.
I hope it serves people locked in their homes well. 💪
This is a great 👍 little gizmo you built out bro, I love it and that you give us where we can find the build plan's OMG 😲 Thank you SERIOUSLY! Keep the content coming, this is the kind of vid that you can lose yourself for 20 or 30 minutes and not feel like you're the one who ended up on the losing end. Aces buddy, fo sho!!😉👍
This looks like its going to be fun. Seeing labor intensive processes get automated! Right on.
Thanks for the videos.
Thanks for watching! I really appreciate it!
I see you've been busier than a beaver! Hee, hee. Great project. Love wood burning heat. Oooohh that smell! Thanks for sharing and I'll be waiting by the fire! Cheers 👍👍
Love it too. Burning wood is the most old school thing I know. 😀
That’s a great idea. Can’t wait to see how it turns out
Meko drvo ! Nije problem !
Tvrdo drvo... niste sekli i niste cepali !
Kada takvu secku nacinite i demonstrirate cepanje tvrdog drveta tada cu Vam reci " BRAVO MAJSTORE! Pozdrav
Hmm.. Converting junk into something useful. Always fun to watch. 👍😊
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there was another great mechanic at work! best job! as always !!! 👍👍👍👋👋👋🤝🤝🤝🇩🇪
Hello Donn. I am really liking this design. Looking forward to more. Has always I Liked,shared. All my very best.
Молодец. Всегда смотрю твои видео. Грамотно делаешь. Когда в Армии служил был у нас парень с Эстонии. Также всё аккуратно делал. Жалко что такую страну развалили, эти демократы. И сейчас стравливают народ. Нет плохой нации есть плохие люди. Успехов тебе парень незнаю как тебя зовут. 👍👍👍😊
As always another great build. Can't wait for the next video.
Another masterpiece has begun!!
You thought PRODUCTIVITY and went after it. Kudos all around!!
Dude! I'm impressed! Well, necessity is the mother of invention.
Южне зґвалтування дiї
I was really looking forward to watching the trailer dump all the way. You really killed my dreams bro ☹️
Ive been watchin since you start and finish your 6x6 amphibious art. Your great 👍
Cheers man! Hopefully this project is also great to watch. 😉
Of course i appreciate your ideas man. 😊👍
Excellent work my friend!
From a young fulla in the early 70's all the way though my years till 10 years or so back mid 2000's, I did what you are doing without thinking about log splitters as they do today.
Watching your innovations to make something of your little log splitter has showen me a better way to have done just that.
Good NZ native fire wood back then was so plentiful and easy to get every one that needed it just went and got it.
Not like that today with the pressures of life put on other peoples lives going out to gather any good firewood is in such demand now that some now make a living out of it regardless weather they are splitting up good heating wood or not as the punter or buyer don't know good wood from bad.
Good wood would normal be NZ native, but so little of that around now that people are buying pine, a far less good wood for heat but wood all the same.
Watching your video I wish I'd thought to use a splitter like yours that took a whole log cut it and split it loaded it on to a truck or trailer for removal saving ones back and time to do all the things this video and I presume your next shell show.
I look forward to your next, thank you!
Thank you!
I had the 115v version of that splitter years ago (115v because Canada) it worked great for anything that wasn't hard wood, little slow for someone that grew up with a gas powered machine. Been messing with the idea of a firewood processor for my parents farm. I like the ATV size you are going for and defiantly has the gears turning in my head on building one again.
Wood we use for heating is mainly Alder. It splits really well (even when dry) and heats well. We don't really burn Oak or something of that nature. We do burn Birch which is also a great furniture material next to Oak.
We have a lot of dead maple, cherry and Oak on are farm, nothing straight enough to mill unfortunately. Still plenty of dead standing elm to clean up from the Dutch elm disease back in the woods, it splits nice and has lots of heat.
Yessss so glad your doing another homemade logging project! The stuff we have to buy to do with logging is sooo expensive so it's great to see some ideas that we can all achieve at home! Keep up the great content! Secretly hoping for a homemade winch sometime 😂😂
Yup, I try to put this project together from the parts I have laying around. Rusty or not. Recycled anyway. Homemade hydraulic winch would be an awesome project. 😉
Or hydraulic crane for ATV trailer
Neat project, will be a great labour saver I’m sure. Good to see you start a new video series.
Hardox steel is well named, we just relined a dump truck box floor and sides with 20 & 10mm hardox plate.....gas axe to size then tidy up the cuts with the grinder for welding.
Must have been a hell of a work relining that dump truck box! 💪
Donn DIY
Aye, I certainly slept at night, lost count of the flux-core reels used 😁
Молодец парень, творческий человек, так и надо. Видит суть вещей. Удачи вам и здоровья. Ещё раз молодец. российский пенсионер.
Не перестаёшь удивлять своими задумками.
Hello Donn, I hope your memory is better than mine as I have followed you for some time and am very impressed with your skills as a provider of metal and wood products. I watched you build the bandsaw mill on baited breath for each installment as my heart lays close to milling as well although at your age I was a mechanic. I loved the amphibious build and hope that you have a jet drive for when in the water so it travels faster. I am interested in how your chop saw for firewood will come out, I have absolute confidence in the efforts and workmanship you do. I think a limit switch on the ram will keep it from hitting the splitter blades. I hope these comments don't goof you up as sometimes you do beat on yourself if you miscalculate something and that is my only complaint... don't do that. Engineers are still attempting to put man on mars and get him back before he is two hundred years old when he gets back/LOL. Everything is math and I see you do this easy. I have never went to school and never learned to read or write till I was 47. If my son hadn't been sick then I still probably wouldn't know how. Have confidence that even tho you don't have it yet but that you will have it and I know it .... and maybe Bill is your uncle/LOL
I'm impressed! Try adding a short extension on the ram, with a vertical slot cut into it, so that it can push the log *past* the vertical cutter. This way the next log will contact the vertical cutter first instead of contacting the previous log first and being pulled to one side.
That's a good idea!
Well thought design. I like the way blades are stacked or offsetted, so that only one blade is cutting at a time to reduce the force on the ram.
Not my idea - stole it on the Internet. But the idea is really great. 😀
You build awesome stuff. Good job!!!
your base splitter is the same as mine .. bought some years ago and modified to take care of splitting the gnarly logs we get in Portugal .
So excited to see this evolve. Been looking at doing this same thing.
Hopefully this machine will give you ideas for your own build so you can make a better version. 💪
amazing well planned build LOVE IT ! ..
this is going to be awesome. i have always pulled fire wood out of the woods in lengths and then saw it up near the wood shed , i dont know it works for me at least until i get to old to do it
see donn... this is why we love you. i literally have the same (different color) chinese made electric log splitter in my yard right now. didn't think it would take this. now will be doing it immediately!!! hell yes
It is small but really powerful splitter. We don't have Oak around here for firewood but a lot of Alder. This firewood processor will be used mainly for Alder. And I want to tow it around behind the ATV, that's why it will be sized small. I'm glad this video is an inspiration! 💪
@@DonnDIY i have a lot of oak, and the little splitter is slower than most but with these extra wedges we can make up for slow speed with more pieces per stroke. excellent. keep up the great work man. the other thing about these little ones is they fall off stuff so easily... i actually dropped mine on the concrete by accident when it slipped off the back of a pickup while splitting. cracked the aluminum piece that connects the motor to cylinder and had to cut that part off and thread flexible hydraulic lines in. i think i must need a reservoir or larger return tube now down near the motor because i can hear it cavitating sometimes. anyway thx again. sometimes people wonder why i'm cheap with stuff like this but $2000 on a new larger splitter seems like too much when i could spend the money and time on tools and fabrication experience as you have.
Is so good to see you working , keep going brother you are the best 😉
Man brother is there anything you can't do? You are a man of many talents brother. Well be safe and take care your friend from Larned Ks Eric Houser.
Ggreat job my friend, you inspire me to start my own channel
Really looking forward to this series! Infeed, outfeed and process optimization.. I can not imagine Donn standing there operating that log splitter manually so I expect the "two hand safety features" to get a good rework also :-)
And I have a feeling there will be a hydraulic crane for the trailer, with winch, instead of lifting those logs by hand.
Yup, that is the plan. Although fully automating the whole process will probably not happen. I will try to keep it as simple as possible yet handle the wood as little as possible. Hydraulic winch is an idea I've had for a couple of years now. I have looked into hydraulic ATV trailer cranes too. Might be great to have it for loading and unloading too.
Ive been waiting so long hoping youd build a firewood processor, this is a dream come true as Im planning on something similar! So far we seem to share the same thoughts on this. Cant wait to follow this project! Keep up the good work, your videos are great inspiration and learning!
Thanks man. I hope to get this project working and finished fast since I needed to start gathering firewood two months ago. 😆
@@DonnDIY know the feeling 😂 I seem to be late every year 😂 Luckily its warm and usually a little windy at the southernmost tip of Norway where I live so the wood dries up rather fast. Good luck and stay strong 💪
Donn
I have no doubt you're going to get it working. Like how you repurpose materials. 🤔😎😎
I always enjoy your video they are interesting and unique!! They also give me some to do in quarantine, while also encouraging me to get out there and build something!
Thanks! That's the point - to go out to the garage and build stuff! 💪
@@DonnDIY hell yeah🤙🏼. I've started a fabrication project of making tube doors for my vehicle 🤙🏼
That’s a awesome trailer you built there Donn! I’m going to go back and look that video over 👍
I built a log arch years ago after building my bandsaw mill, the arch picks the log off the ground to keep it from dragging though the dirt, as you know dirt and bandsaw blades don’t mix well 😂
Thanks for posting Donn👍 Ps if you get time check out my articulating 4x4 dump truck build, I think you would like it 🙂
Nice new project! You need to design a log skidder and loader for your tracked vehicle next.
Very interesting & fun to watch home made log splitter.
cool build :) you should try making the standing splitter with a point in middle. will ease up load on the hydraulics
Que bueno otra serie! Saludos desde Miami.
I love your job!
Thanks
OH YEAH....DONN's BUILDING AGAIN!!!!! It's gonna be good! Donn you need to build one of those exoskeleton mechanical thingies (the kind you wear) to help pick up all those logs for splitting into firewood.
Love ur video. Excellent!!! Change things to best serve your needs.
Great work sir.
Thank you very much.
Looking forward to more.
Thank you for watching!
Muy ingenioso, te admiro amigo me gustan tus vídeos, saludo desde Chile..
i love these videos where you viberíš into the wood cut wood and make it and make it is cool more please such videos
1.52. I cant take any more, you are making a mountain of the job.
Donny, I see where you are going with this, One thing that would be a huge improvement would be to add a conveyor, Then build some boxes of about 4 feet by 4 feet by 4 feet, If I recall you have a tractor with loader and could use forks on it, Once you process your wood the conveyor will dump the wood in to said box, One can make sure the conveyor has a good swing and using a set length of light weight chain you can set up a number of boxes in an arc, This way when one fills you just push the conveyor to the next one. Another thing to consider as well is a table to set logs on to either in a fix location so that someone can load a number of logs on to said table and they are ready to be processed. With this set up you will be able to process a large amount of fire wood in a very short time. With the boxes one can stack them pretty easy 2 or more high and because they are loose stacked inside each box they will dry very well even when in the elements.
I look forward to seeing what you do!
Conveyor will come, pallets will come, pallet moving equipment will come. 💪😉
Another great project
Great at work no music , will watch
Nice work !! From Québec, Canada !
Have you consider big log are difficult to get so high up? My own experience is, a low splitter is easier to use when you had big logs. My logs I split was twice the size of yours logs. Very cool project, thank you for sharing your amazing journey. Be careful and safe. God bless you and your family.
I love love this video thank you so much . So smart!!!
Nice work again. 👌💪 If I had start something like this I would to make it with auto feed at the back of the trailer and cut the log with trigger on contact automatically and the with rollers to slip on basket.. Soo the only you do is to load the wood at start and change basket at the end.. I say all this why as far I see that you are from north Europe and you use dig amounts of woods that will decrease the time of it. Soo the only you do is to cut the tree and as long is on your trailer then to go automatically with the less hours. Probably you do more than 10 to 15 tons per year.. Good luck. Looking forward for your next uploads.
Yep work smarter not harder
Outstanding sir
Man with the action plan !!
Great build. Easy Splitting
This thing is gonna be nice its already 100x more effiecient !
my sisters dollhouse had a woodstove bigger than that. I do like the license plate stove door btw nice
Excellent job proper setup 👍
Cheers man!
In Sweden - and many other countries I'm sure - we have a saying along the lines of "Preparing firewood keeps you warm over and over again." ;)
Happy
Neat idea! You’re always creative. Great video
So your next torture session of keeping us wait for ur new set of videos eagerly has started ? Great.
Why this passive aggressive comment? The content I create is free for you to watch. I see no reason for complaining. 🙃
Donn DIY He’s joking buddy 👍😀
@@DonnDIY
Ah... Dear Donn.. your need to increase you humour like you technical aptitude.
My statement is highlighting desperation of waiting ONE FULL WEEK eagerly coz your content is adored dearly.
Now I'll have to say those with high tech brain are poor in language n skills n pun n joke n humour n sarcasm. Now don't take this personally.
Great show!
You are my hero
I have been thinking of makeing fire wood processing easier. Everytime i go to the forest over 3 years now and makeing a video about it and you basically did it great job. When you are finished would it be possible to get plan if you have some.
Moving and stacking wood that many times is crazy.
That's what I thought when I was a child. I was told to shut up and stack wood silently. 😆
I know all to well what it’s like gathering firewood. My family burns wood and back in the day we used to make maple syrup in our sugar house. During the summer we cut split and ranked wood.
Thanks for sharing that, well done
Thank you!
New series how awesome!
Awsome job
Very clever! Good job 👍
Cheers man!
G'day Donn good to see you again that's one great trailer love how it's got the "tiper" action on it. We have a second home that is like a holiday home and we have a wood heater in that most of the wood I buy in bags, the special needs kids bag it up and it gives them money, the wood here is hard wood ( Tasmanian oak) which is a eucalyptuses gum tree burns very well. Your Grand dad is he the same age as me 63 yo. That log splitter is a must and it's good how you improved it. Stay healthy mate kind regards John
Grandpa seems to be at least 85