Rotating wedge set up is fantastic!!

Some years back I had the opportunity to use a shear type wood splitter called "The Chomper". We were working on dirty birch wood in the 14 inches size range that had been limbed and left at logging operations and it was essentially ours for the taking but it was very hard on chainsaws. The shear performed very well and dirt on the logs didn't slow it down even a bit. Much easier to keep going over long periods and the combined feed, shear, split action was pretty great but did have a fair amount of moving parts. Didn't seem to be an issue though. I always wanted to get one of those machines for myself but the company stopped making them. This design is an excellent approach to the idea for a person who keeps their wits about them and their fingers out of the way.

This has got to be if not the top but best set up i’ve seen. Simple, no saw dust waste. No chain saw sharpening. Less moving parts and powerful and accurate length. With adjustable splitting blades.

@harrilaine7307

4 жыл бұрын

thanks 🤝

@1965Leonard

4 жыл бұрын

i can oly agree.

@williamhitching861

4 жыл бұрын

Not wood fake

@jamesward5721

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamhitching861 You've never seen a tree shear at work so - they cut the same as this ^.

So far the best firewood equipment I've ever seen, thanks for postint.

That rotating splitter wedge dependant on the log size, and so how many splits you choose to make is super slick. Nice machine. Nice unimog too . Or whatever that rig is. Very cool

@harrilaine7307

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍. That was military vehicle,Sisu A-45.

Different concept. I'll be honest, I'm surprised the guillotine worked that well. Cross cutting grain like that I would have thought it would be more likely to crush than slice.

@gordongibson7137

2 жыл бұрын

Great looking machine. When they built the first guillotine (in France, for use on people) they built it with a straight blade like this unit. Didn't take them long to find out that wasn't very good and she went better with an angled blade to effect more of a slicing action. I reckon the same principle could be used here if ever difficulties arose in cutting harder wood. All in all an excellent effort. That rotating splitter is genius. You can tell this gentleman spends a fair bit of time lying awake at night.

Smartest processor I've seen! Nice work!

Strikes me that for small diameter logs, say first thinning you could add a splitting wedge directly to the guillotine maybe? 1. Two questions please. How does it handle dry timber? 2. How does it handle soft spruce, does it compress before shearing off? Nice work👍

@harrilaine7307

3 жыл бұрын

for smaller trees we have a better machine than for larger trees. watch my other videos. completely dry trees do not go well across, but slightly dried succeeds. and the fresh spruce goes really well.

I like it. No sawdust! Bigger pump and ram and you could shear American hardwoods too. You’d need a more massive frame, of course, but it’s do-able.

Nice an easy this machine Thanks ---- Its surprising ones that give Negative comments when you look on their channel they don't have anything to show

You would get a big shock using that cutter in Australia. Very tough wood our hard wood .Cheers Dean

That is a very awesome machine such a clean cut no sawdust build up very nice fast to the wedge is one of the best features

I like the guillotine use similar to the 'chopper' processor. It did things one better by combining the pushing function of the splitter with the log feed.

What a great setup

Это самая лучшая машина для заготовки дров!!! Инженеру создавший сей агрегат моё глубокое почтение!!!

Nice firewood processor 👍👍

Thanks for showing something different. Looks to be less noise, less waste, less mess, less dangerous, and likely less maintenance than any type of saw blade or chain. Probably only takes you 30 seconds to re-sharpen every 10,000 cuts or so. I wonder if the haters in the comments realize hydraulics are used to shear steel when the machine is designed for that. There's too much manual handling for me to call it perfect, but it seems built to suit your needs. If you needed it to cut huge hardwood logs, you'd have built it bigger.

@harrilaine7307

3 жыл бұрын

what do you think of other woodworking machines?

@WilReid

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrilaine7307 Yours? I haven't seen them. I'll check out your other videos. :)

Nice machine. A bit scary to use once hand to get hold of the wood so I would lift the guillotine a bit and let gravity move the cut wood to the splitter!

@harrilaine7307

3 жыл бұрын

must not give fear power.

Brilliant design.

Can you give me some info on hydraulic ram and pump size? What size cylinder to shear? What size pump is running the processor? Love the firewood processor by the way, great design 👍

Sir! Job well done! 👍

Very nice setup I'd like to see if it would cut the hardwood we use hickory,oaks,locust and so on . Great job 👍

@harrilaine7307

2 жыл бұрын

oak we have tried to cut but it is really hard, would require a bigger cylinder replacement .. those birches and other trees what we burn so goes well yes.

For all you watching that was Balsa wood he was shearing lol.

@harrilaine7307

4 жыл бұрын

balsa in your pants

going thru birch that easy....impressive! popular and spruce should be no problem.

That's awesome

this one i liked

Nice

Wicked cool. I would think you would want to wear some kind of eye protection. I assume there is massive pressure to shear the log off

Doubt it would make a dent in Aussie hardwoods?

@Alan_Hans__

3 жыл бұрын

Very few things do :D

@HubertofLiege

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like red alder which is a soft hardwood. Cuts and splits easy, burns hot.

@kellyharris2079

Жыл бұрын

Go build one and find out

@hynot9175

Жыл бұрын

@@kellyharris2079 lol, i have a 50t diesel splitter that has enough trouble sometimes with ironbark splitting with the grain, so no way would i waste my time building something like this for cutting across the grain, good luck to you!

What kind of wood?? Just curious. I can't see that slicing through Red or White Oak...but, I could be wrong. Love the rotating wedge!

@harrilaine7307

4 жыл бұрын

that wood is birch. oak is once cut 12 inches, it didn't go all at once. had to rotate the wood.

One missing pice, what's the diameter of the piston on the shear? There is no picture of it to estimate that.

On kyllä hieno laite. Täynnä toimivia yksityiskohtia. 👍

@harrilaine7307

3 жыл бұрын

kiitoksia 🙏😎

Can it cut hardwood too ?

I would suggest you to demo cutting threw knots and also bigger diameter wood as well as hard wood. The concept is good but the way you made it will just limit you to cutting butter. Nice video.

@harrilaine7307

3 жыл бұрын

In Finland, the best and most common wood used for heating is birch and it goes like butter as big as the machine can hold. not here heated by oak, they go to the carpenter.

Would have an interest in selling one of your units?

👍

What grade steel for sheer blade?

@harrilaine7307

4 жыл бұрын

Hardox 500. 10mm

Well nows its offical , Ive seen everything

I like SISU.....

How much force does the ram need to cut through it

@harrilaine7307

4 жыл бұрын

about 12 tons of clamping force on cutting

@dan135sor8

4 жыл бұрын

@@harrilaine7307 hardox 500? 8mm?

@harrilaine7307

4 жыл бұрын

@@dan135sor8 yes hardox 500 10mm

How does it work on red oak?

@harrilaine7307

3 жыл бұрын

i don't know when oak is not made into firewood here.

Mites menee kuiva koivu?

@harrilaine7307

5 жыл бұрын

Menee mutta ei tietenkään niin siististi. Puuthan koitetaan aina tehdä tuoreena kuivumaan.

Minkä verran on katkaisu sylinterissä voimaa, tonneja.

@harrilaine7307

3 ай бұрын

Taisi olla 12tonnia.

Must be a descendent from the French Revolution. Be careful with that one.

@harrilaine7307

2 жыл бұрын

a good device for debt collection too

Hei. On todella pätevän oloinen laite. Olisiko tästä mahdollista saada vaikka useampia kuvia sillä ajatuksella että rakentaisi itselle vastaavan? Ei tarvi mitään todella tarkkaa vaan vain rakentamisen avuksi. Ymmärrän jos ei ole mahdollista, mutta jos on niin olisin kiitollinen. T : halkoholisti

@harrilaine7307

Жыл бұрын

Onhan siitä mahdollista kuvia saada lisää taikka jos ei hämeenlinna ole liian kaukana niin poikkea katsomaan ja jutulle.

Let’s see some oak or maple. This all looks like pine

@harrilaine7307

3 жыл бұрын

here birch is most commonly used as heating wood. oak has also been cut, but here it is used for carpentry work

@offgridbc6810

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrilaine7307 I found with my shear firewood processor that birch seemed to shear much nicer than dry pine even though it is a much harder wood. But dry pine shears nice too when my shear is sharp.

Very nice but good way to loose your hand

@harrilaine7307

2 жыл бұрын

no, you shouldn't do that. you have to know what you are doing

scary

I bet that wouldn't work with Hickory or Locust.

@harrilaine7307

3 жыл бұрын

ok.

@harrilaine7307

3 жыл бұрын

whatever when we don't have those trees here 😅

Throw it in the bin will not cut 99 percent of wood