Those that can, do. Those that can't, critique and/or complain about those who can. Good job!

Excellent video and excellent build.

I love how its super simple

Congratulations on fantastic wood splitter! Continued Success. Thank you for sharing.

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Nice work 👍

That's a great setup. Nice work. Not sure why people would say the chainsaw mechanism is bad or faulty or whatever. It looks like a nice easy solution.

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Cool build. Thats a good somewhat manual design. Good for you young fellows. Nice work.

Thanks for sharing. Neat looking rig.

Excellent fabrication.

I'm looking at building something like this. Thanks for the ideas!

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Yeah! Thanks for watching. There's a video of my new one quite a bit more elaborate.

Great video! Thanks for sharing your design! Mill Gap Farms

I like it

Yeah it looked pretty nice I would’ve liked to seen it work but I bet it does a very good job and looks like you did a good job building it so I have some time you want to do a video with it working it would be nice thank you God bless

Good job Josh. I did a joke video with a roller table and my splitter in the side operated with ropes. This thing is no joke, you can really make a lot of firewood with that machine. Brent

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. It worked well. Always room for improvement though!

I see you have sold the unit already, cordless drill and a socket really speeds up those scissor jacks!

@joshbateman901

21 күн бұрын

Yeah sure would. If it's getting moved a lot that would definitely make sense

Thanks for your ideas!

Disregard the negative people. You'll sleep better at night, and i suspect they never have had any sawdust in their shoes.

@joshbateman901

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! There always some no matter what it is and what you do

Great Job. Thanks Der Guy.

I enjoyed that thanks

hi there looks good john

Looks good

Hello Josh, just subscribed. Nice splitter 🚜🪵👍🏼🇺🇸

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@jakebredthauer5100

Жыл бұрын

Processor

Lets see it in action fella

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Hi won't be any action from this machine. I sold it right after the video was made. I have been working on a new one so look for that one later on.

This is more like the firewood processor I am planning to make. I have an old log splitter that is complete. Just needs some fixing up. I have some old roller tables too. Just have to figure out the trailer part. And a conveyor would be helpful.

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Cheep and relatively simple

@countrywoodproducts

Жыл бұрын

@@joshbateman901 Yes, except for the trailer I have almost everything I need.

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

@@countrywoodproducts Could you just get an axle and build the frame of the machine as the trailer? Something like the way most commercial woodsplitters are

@countrywoodproducts

Жыл бұрын

@@joshbateman901 I have been considering that as well. But right now there is not much of a frame besides the log splitter.

would be nice to see it working

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Hi yeah as iv mentioned to other people I don't have it anymore and hadnt thought of it at the time. I am working on a new one so keep a lookout for that and il make sure to have a video of it processing.

looks great how about a demo and specs well done cheers

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Hi sold the machine a few years back and just recently put the video up so there won't be a demo on this one. I have been working on a new one so keep looking for that one coming up. Il make sure to have a demo with it

I would go with a kinetic splitter, I like your thoughts on the 4 way, also seems like most people split down way to small makes for a hot quick fire that needs stoked multiple times a night

@camperjack2620

7 ай бұрын

If I use big wood, it will be 80 degrees in my living room for the rest of the night. I learned the hard way to use smaller pieces.

@clintkysar1446

6 ай бұрын

@@camperjack2620 yeah some stoves are also hard to get to dampen down right so big solid pieces are not an option but they also don't get lots of air because of their size so in theory they kinda dampen themselves at least it seemed to work well in our old Quadra fire

Great job! You might try mounting a winch like a boat trailer winch and a dog on the cable end to draw the bigger pieces through. Or maybe electric or even a hydraulic one. Cheers 🍺

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Hey yeah good thought. The new one. Working on has a hydraulic motor and chain feed with a paddle to push the logs forward. Keep a lookout for a video of it coming up

I've had that idea rolling around in my head for years. My variation is a blocking table that drops or elevates to a 8' merry go round that spins via a small motor. So it's useful with 2 guys or even just yourself. I have a Axis which I really like so I'm not all that interested in the splitter end. Working with the vertical splitter has really improved the quality of the wood and decreased the waste. Resplitting on a fixed wedge is not all that efficient for the operator. I'm not banging traditional splitters, if you have the wood to pass through a 6 way or 4 way in one shot nothing is faster. Unfortunately it seems I never end up with that size wood hence the vertical splitter with a single wedge.

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

I don't totally understand the blocking table idea? I agree on the splitter side to some extent. I like the wood dropping down and getting half split, I never liked the multi way just for what you said there is so much waste from crappy pieces that would not be sellable. A lot of the time I separated the bigger stuff for furnace wood and the smaller for stove wood so it limited the need to re split anything anyways. This machine never had anything too big through it and even the new on I'm working on now is gona have a 12" max size. Anything bigger can be done on a saw and splitter otherwise. (Besides that there is almost no trees left where I am that are over 12" anyways)

Lets see it in action

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Hi iv mentioned to a few others I never thought of it at the time and ended up selling shortly after. Iv got a video of my new machine running

I would have liked to see your machine working. May I make two suggestions please? Paint your machine When editing your video increase the volume.

@joshbateman901

11 ай бұрын

Paint for sure makes stuff look finished but is more for ascetic then practical, for many years anyway. Il take the volume into consideration

Assuming it's just for smaller single split logs, otherwise lots of extra handling while the chainsaw is running..

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's true most of the logs were in that 3-8" so not much need for resplitting. Anything bigger was usually put aside for furnace wood so no need to split it again.

Good job. A four-way splitter is pretty much standard. It looks like it needs a table for resplitting. When you pushed the saw forward, it didn't look like it went down all the way to the needed amount. You can get a smaller processor with no engine for $20,000, new. And no log deck either. Would you say it is a one person or a two person machine? One person can do it but a second person would help a lot. Is that correct?

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Hi yeah we had considered a 4 way but from what I had seen 90% of them I didn't like how they worked. Seemed to me they usually wasted wood when splitting having little splinters or hard to split when there was a twisted or knotted piece. For the most part we were doing smaller 3-10" on it. The smaller went onto the truck for stove wood and the larger for furnace wood orders. Maybe just the look in the video but the bottom of the bar should be just under the front rail of the roller so the bottom of the chain would be well through the cut. We did have a few issues with really twisted pieces not cutting all the way through but 99%went right through. 1 person can run it but most of the time it was 2 of us. 1 on the saw and another cutting the oversized by hand rolling the new logs in keeping the split stuff cleared ext. The only difference with 1 person would be when the table is empty there would be time required to load new logs. Thanks for watching

@jakebredthauer5100

Жыл бұрын

@@joshbateman901 I was thinking whether it had mass production potential. If you bought everything new that would raise the cost a lot. I don't know whether it would be worth the cost.

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

@@jakebredthauer5100 It would depend on what "mass production" means to you. We would do about 1 cord per day and that's enough for us. I think our biggest day was processing 3 cord from log to delivery and I'd never do that every day. Suppose that's the difference with a 100+k bells machining processor or something where you can sit in a cab and work all day. Iv used the China ones that are available in Canada for about 10k and it was no better.

@jakebredthauer5100

Жыл бұрын

@@joshbateman901 You misunderstood. If you produced 100 processors, the cost per unit would go up. That is what I meant by mass production. The biggest design flaw that I see in it is trying to move a whole log by hand instead of cutting it into pieces and then moving those individual pieces by hand. If it is not too hard to move a whole log by hand, then that would be okay. I don't know whether those rollers are meant to be for outside use.

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

@@jakebredthauer5100 Oh okay I see I was thinking production on the machine not producing the machine. Yeah for sure on the beer rollers. Its not the best. The one I'm working on now has a chain in feed for the wood. Haven't worked out the stop for the log yet since it needs to be much stronger to hold up that way.

Is the conveyor powered or manual push log to stopped ?

@joshbateman901

7 ай бұрын

Rollers are just manual. Beer style rollers

Josh, can you show me a close up of the chainsaw pivot mount? I'm currently using a mount used for making boards that clamps to the bar. I'm looking for something exactly like your with bearings.

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Hi il have too see if I can find any better pics of it (I don't own the machine anymore). Basically it's just a duel pillow block with a rod between. Welded square tube onto it the 1 1/4 fits over the 1" with the weld line ground off the inside. The mount on the chainsaw is a piece I ground and drilled to match the shape and holes for the sawdog mount, welded that to a piece of flat bar under the saw. If that made any sense? Il let you know if I find any better pics of what I did.

@kurtbennett2099

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the reply. I'm testing g to do something similar. Do you have any plans of the one you built? I can send you pics of what I have and possibly you could give me some ideas. Thanks again!

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

@kurt bennett No specific plans... more of a trial and error type of build. That's usually how I get things done haha.

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

@kurt bennett For sure send me what you got and I might be able to help out

@kurtbennett2099

Жыл бұрын

@Josh Bateman do I send them through this reply section or email etc? I normally don't comment, but this is exactly what I'm trying to build. Thanks again for your quick response

What kind of trailer did you use?

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Was an old utility trailer. I believe 4x8 or 4x10 I can't remember exactly. 1500lb axle

Any vids of it in action soon?

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Hi won't be any video of this one in action, sold it right after the video. I have been working on a new one so look for that one later on. Thanks for watching

I saw that you don’t have this one anymore but would love to see the new asap and get maybe some instructions/directions for building my own like it Thanks

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

For sure. I'm hoping to have it done before snow here in Nova Scotia so I can get my wood finished up. Itl be a different looking machine but hopefully work just as well. Stay tuned for it Thanks

Could you give us a demonstration.

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

I had sold the machine right after making the video and never thought of it at the time. Iv got a new one built you can check out that video if your interested

@bendugas8632

Жыл бұрын

I'll look for it, thanks.

make a video to show how it works....or not :)

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Or not. Il make sure to have a clip of my next one running. Thanks for watching

@timgiles9413

Жыл бұрын

@@joshbateman901 Can't wait to see it in action. That looks like a good setup. Thanks for sharing :)

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

@@timgiles9413 For sure. Hopefully il get it running sooner then later

Show me running.

@joshbateman901

Жыл бұрын

Iv mentioned it to a few others that asked. I sold it right after this video was made. I am working on a new one il make sure to show it in use