That loading conveyor is the nuts and would certainly aid in a one man operation. As I watch these videos of the box wedge in action I continue to be amazed at the scrap that’s produced. I cut and split firewood for my own use and just use a big box splitter, although it’s much slower I can control the size and shape of the splits much better. Just my humble opinion and observation.

I think the rounds conveyor would be useful to anyone that doesn't have a processor 😮

Absolutely agree have the rounds come to you. A conveyor system to the splitter and then a conveyor that takes the wood away is the ideal woodyard set-up. Stay safe my friend

If my yard was a little bit bigger, I could see this being handy for sure.

It’s a great idea, it just adds another expensive piece of equipment to an already expensive operation. The more you spend on equipment the more you have to sell to break even.

@chickenneck

6 ай бұрын

Yeah when Easton made gives you a $20,000 splitter and $10,000 conveyor, you would still need to sell 200 cords to break even on all the other equipment being advertised to make firewood easier. Endless money pit.

@whalerlife53

6 ай бұрын

@@chickenneck yea, the way you make a small fortune in the firewood business is to start out with a large one.

@HOMELESSAREPEOPLE

6 ай бұрын

I agree - the money is made from the KZread channel…not the selling of firewood.

@mikeadams2339

6 ай бұрын

I like that sorting table. Conveyor iz for the Utuberz. That table keeps u from picking up off the ground.separating bundel,stove,firepit wood.

@peterphillips8666

6 ай бұрын

It's about time to see a great idea for the one aspect of log splitting that has never been adequately addressed. The physics are answered for a person with spinal fusion who loves to split firewood .

A graple on the tractor, and a conveyortable would be really cool for productivity.

If I had the equipment and the money it takes to make firewood easier I would simple buy it from someone and take the time saved and spend it with the people I love.

It's awesome, been talking about making one of these ever since I got the 22-28, even have all the chain and sprockets. You just need an excavator or log grapple at the end of it and you're in good shape. With that 37 D you definitely need an excavator in the yard.

That's pretty dang cool. I use a roller conveyor and gravity to do this exactly. I have a couple videos on it.

Adding that conveyor would be a game changer!

Dan , that’s a fantastic idea . Firewood people always coming up with great ideas . 👏

Conveyor was awesome to see in operation!

An old manure spreader would be ideal for feeding the splitter deck,could be run with orbit motor,could put up to two cords in one and you could split nonstop for quite awhile before getting back on the loader,wish I would have thought of this back in the day.Havent been in the firewood business for quite a few years now,makes me feel like starting again,especially when I see birch selling for $300+ a cord.

@philliphall5198

6 ай бұрын

I agree 😊

I like the conveyor table. That would make my one man operation way more efficient.

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

Something like this definitely would help...or I thought about a mobile version with wheels that you could tow around, gather up the rounds and back up to the splitter...like a trailer but have it bring the wood to the back.

Thank you for showing this. I know of a belt conveyor not far from my place. This gives me a good idea, thank you again.

A conveyor the correct size for your woodyard would be a game changer.

Great idea. I use an old manure spreader to move my split wood from my seasoning pile to my wood shed. I took the finger gear off the spreader, but left the drag conveyor intact so I can run the wood out of the spreader, to the rear, to stack in my woodshed. Keep up the great video week.

@jlwehr6313

5 ай бұрын

It’s funny you mention a manure spreader. I’ve been thinking of finding an old one to dump rounds into and feeding my wood table I built awhile back

@robmacdonald9395

5 ай бұрын

@jlwehr6313 it is great, the height is good, I can reach all the wood from the side, no need to jump in and out of a truck bed, etc. And if need be, I ratchet the conveyor and off-load from the end.

I agree with you Dan the Conveyor is the Way to go with the Big Rounds. It needs a little Refined with an area to put the Rounds like a landing area. Would save alot of time in Splitting. Have to see what they come up with. Ron from the Woodyard in Duanesburg NY.

Hi Dan, that conveyor is awesome. Problem is cost. 10-12k. Might be more. I hope to put out a video showing the operation soon. From log cutting table to splitting table and round table for rounds maybe 900.00. Don’t get me wrong, that is an awesome piece of equipment. Check us out.Very interesting video.

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

Not sure what final price would be on this or if there are going to be options and different sizes at different price points.

Would be an awsome thing to have for any splitter. At my age would be a Real big advantage

Conveyor is super cool, but that table at the end of the splitter! That’s the berries!

That conveyor would be a nice addition to your wood yard !!

Hi Dan, yes that conveyor is a cool piece of kit!!

Hi Daniel Akins I think that's a Game Changer for sure especially if you're busy your Self it Makes that job So much Faster and Productive 👍💯

I made a hopper affair that was sloped on to the splitter deck that I filled with rounds,roughly half cord,with the loader,picture a ramp with sides that farmers load cattle into a truck with,only drawback was when blocks got jammed up in the hopper you had to careful poking them loose,had some pretty big birch(24 inch). Could split quite a few cords in a long day,my elevator to carry splits away was two bale elevators put end to end to make pile as high as 20 feet. I really like your splitter.

The Conveyor Table is Game Changer for the big Rounds,

Dan. Thank you for the shirt and the other goodies you sent me. Keep up with the good videos. Merry Christmas to you and your family

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

You're welcome and Merry Christmas to you and your family as well.

I definitely saw the manure spreader heritage.

Awesome! Definitely the missing link. It needs a loading hopper to load with a loader.

Excellent idea for sure! This is a great idea.

Looks like a Win Win addition!!

You might look at a secondhand roller table with a hydraulic lift at the far end. load the table then lift to roll the logs to the splitter.

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

That's a good idea. 👍😀🍻

Very very cool!!

Looks like a good idea

When you’re by yourself it’s a great back saver and things will be quicker than one or two rounds at a time 😮😊❤

Wow what a great idea, especially when your working solo or even with 1 helper. It takes the place of a couple of extra hands.

I'll send you a couple pictures of my setup. I made a rounds table that is 8' wide and 10' long and 36" high. For the top I used 4 sections of roller conveyors with 3 1.2" spacing. I put blocks under one end of the table that slopes towards my splitter. My splitter has a 30" wide x 72" long table on that side. The rounds roll down onto this table and are pulled into the splitting chamber with a rake. I load the table using my tractor and a manure tine bucket. The table holds 2 bush cords of rounds. It will keep you busy for awhile. I have 4 silage wagons sitting in my yard for the next update to it. One is already a hydraulic setup with 6' wide x 12' long steel apron fed deck on it. And on wheels. That one cost CAN $500.

Remember loading corn on the cob into corn crib with those big long conveyor. Might think about something like that.

Sent ya a little something in the mail hope ya got it

Dan, i am actually thinking about making a cutting table onto which i will load a log, cut it, then roll rounds onto a slightly downward shute to the log lift. Would have to make some stop board to gate the flow...

Would be a game changer! Might also be better with less of an angle so chunks wouldn't roll back down or off from it. Maybe a decent sized gravity fed hopper/funnel type area in the beginning of it to really load it up and funnel the chunks onto the conveyor for even more split time without stopping as often once it's loaded with chunks? Log lift on that part or load with equipment? I think it is way better than without it and with just a log lift on the splitter. Not that a log lift isn't nice on a splitter, but this is WAY better! Anyway, thanks for showing this. Again, brilliant idea to the folks that thought of this. Please pass on ideas to those folks to think about.

The conveyor would be a life saver ( knee saver )when I am splitting large rounds Im transferring the splitter to the vertical position, then wrestling the log while on my knees. Breaking the log down to manageable pieces. Then transferring the splitter back to the horizontal position so I can stand up. Splitting while standing is the most comfortable position to be in. I also love the log bucking rack your friend has

Manure spreader box remove beaters Fill it up with blocks . Plumb a hydraulic motor on it to feed from splitter.

I’d love to have some kind of a “round hopper” that would hold more than my log lift arm

Build a staging table framed with 4x4's and 4x6's and some 2x12's as a runway...... keep it tilted towards the splitter. An axel and wheels on one end and your forks can easily move it around as required... No power needed... load with your bucket.

A great idea that has never properly been addressed. Coming from a person who has had spinal fusion and loves to split firewood.

I've split wood my entire life I bought my first splitter 8 years ago and enjoy it but it could use a convear to bring wood to it and one to take wood away

It sounds like hammerhead attachments is working in the right direction to comer a corner of the market that has some need. We are trying to do something similar to that conveyor but we’re using an old homemade dump trailer to load the rounds into it with the tractor grapple . We have the trailer right up on the splitter like the conveyor but we lift the trailer to get the rounds back to the splitter . I actually think the conveyor method would have more control but we didn’t have an old conveyor to work with .

@AllenFamilyFirewood

6 ай бұрын

We are doing the same thing with a dump trailer . Loading with the tractor an tipping it as we go works great.

Needs a high side hopper where you can load up with about 20 rounds.

Great idea, but I'd want it built like a hopper, something you could dump a whole cord of blocks in with a tractor or skid steer.

The one concern I have is the log rounds kept rolling backwards down the conveyor belt. The solution to stopping that from occurring would be extra helpful. Tim in northern TN

I've wanted to build some sort of large table to hold rounds for a while now, just havent gotten around to it. I saw on hard working man he uses a large metal table, but the cost of that table is absurd and i cant imagine they'd sell well. I was thinking about building one out of the metal frame my grapple was shipped in, should be relatively wasy and cheap, im thinking $100-$150 max. Cant wait to see what you come up with!

@jlwehr6313

5 ай бұрын

I built a wooden version of that table. It works great. But I’ve also been thinking of finding an old manure spreader to dump rounds into in front of it for longer splitting time

I did learn by splitting wood and getting enough for 4 years it gets so dry you have to mix in some of last years splitting or it burns fast I always stayed a year ahead splitting by hand

Get yourself a Tajfun DN2000 mod it with a cut off saw and hold down clamp , and a conveyor that goes to the splitter

How about the table HWM has. That one seems you could actually dump rounds w tractor. Take the beater out of an old spreader and you have a self unloading firewood trailer

All of this extra equipment is certainly blurring the lines between a regular splitter and a firewood processor. I think that giant infeed table that Hard Working Man has for their All Wood Splitter is a good option too.

I am just about to build something comparable at low budget. Tomorrow the Video might come online, maybe Saturday.

Im waiting for someone to build a machine that would take the logs and cut them into rounds then split them and send the pieces up a conveyor into a pile...... if it had a way to hold a bunch of logs so you could just keep going..... That would be great ... hehehe. I will say the overlooked piece in this vid is the table at the end of the box wedge to clear some of the scrap. I have always said if the scrap problem could be mitigated on these box wedges they would be the only way splitter would be made going forward. Great vid ! enjoy your channel !

I have been thinking of making just a static table. It just seem wrong that I lift them to move them to the splitter, drop them on the ground by the splitter and then lift them up again to get them on the table. I have a log lift, but just the same, it is wasted energy and my rounds are larger than I see se on most channels, so around 60-100 lbs a piece. Even a static table would be better than what I am doing. Now a table that moved the logs to me would be even better. Did that table have any height adjustment at the splitter end? Just seemed lo be low for my setup. Also it did not look very transportable. I dont always split in the same place.

A new title the Wood Yard Capacity Manager! WYCM! 👍👍👍

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

Hahaha....I LIKE it!

I think it’s a great idea. 👍🏻

I would not run the new conveyor on an incline. Make it level. And, use a grapple to load it. A man should not be rolling those big heavy rounds on an incline, onto the conveyor. I really like the new conveyor! Rick is headed in the right direction. He is "so close" to perfecting a manual blocking unit. I admire their thinking!

For years I have used skidsteer to push the rounds to me but that conveyer is very nice . But I can only afford so much on the fire wood end of things .

That would save the wonderful Amanda a lot of work!👍👍🇺🇸

I keep seeing various wood hounds with the 5 or 7 way box wedges and can't get away from all the chafe that is produced. Is this normal since I don't see it with a 4 or single wedge. Are going to see a new toy in your woodyard? Stay safe.

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

Yeah with a box wedge you can't get away from a LOT of slash and trash unfortunately. Don't think there will be anything new...unless Santa surprises me....hahaha

For a small operation that cost would be crazy!

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

Yeah you may want to be out of the 'small' operation before needing something like this.

ALl that small wood being thrown aside is perfect for kindling. :)

@mikemccormick3764

6 ай бұрын

But it seems like so much of it, instead of “usable” firewood pieces ?🤷🏼‍♂️

You could achieve something similar by setting 1 or more roller tables. If you see those up the right way anything on them will gravity feed down to where you want it (your splitter). Advantage no engine or electricity needed. I have no idea about price though. A powered conveyor does have some advantages, it depends on your situation and priorities to determine what works best for you.

I see where it would be useful but my processing area is very big so not for me at this time but maybe in the future

hi there i like the manure spreader table . been there not as fast as a big bucket in a table in a one man operation , now if you had someone loading it,it would be a different game , time for the table and a big utility bucket . The MST if you have to load it with a tractor bucket and dump it in ,why not just set in on a table right at the splitter , then there would be no weighting for the round to get up to you . it is as i see it a 2 man operation , Sorry but the Old Geezer has you beat . there was one something like that at the PB show ,Blue in color , the MST looks well made and would defiantly speed up any wood splitting operation . best to all john

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

I was in a bidding war on an online auction for both a large material/snow bucket and a large steel table....so I could follow more in your footsteps. But I lost and was out bid on both...hahaha

@haroldphipps3457

6 ай бұрын

​@@Back40FirewoodI think the frickinjeep way is easy. Not too expensive. Looks like Rick needs to learn what a pickeroon and hookeroon is. Need to learn from the old man! Luv ya John !!😊

@fricknjeep

6 ай бұрын

hi did you see the buckets at tonys tools ,they wernt a bad price , as for a table , look for some used road plates on line , down hear they turn up all the time but like everything the prices are getting goofy. build the legs out of presure treated 6x6 to your purfict height you will need to modafy you w/r splitter a bit john @@Back40Firewood

O ya...this is nice! I like! 💯😜

Definitely handy. And me too, reminding me of manure spreader apron chain. (Loaded that thing a thousand times). But the big question….how many dolla…??

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

I'm not sure they have this listed and priced out yet or if there will be any different size options available.

That's a nice looking trailer behind the lawnmower. What make/model?

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

That is an Ultratec trailer. It is super handy and the bed tilts and dumps which is a great feature.

Wow that would be awesome 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

If you have electricity available you can make your own conveyor from a few cheap second hand treadmills off marketplace etc 😉

How wide is that conveyer?

Dan Could Rick put a chain like this on his bucking station. THANKS Leonard

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

I think he might actually be looking at doing something like that after seeing this.

Wouldn't that be nice! It did seem a bit jumpy but minor detail and could be adjusted.

🤘

It's a good idea but since I don’t have a wood yard, all I can do is comment on it. Bill

dunno. seems to me an all-in-one processor is easier rather than add-ons to a splitter. of course if you are already into an investment of the splitter.... Scrap is always going to be a big issue either way. A conveyor to feed scrap into a boiler would be a boon.

Maybe not for the woodyard that's selling 52 cords or 104 cords per year. Maybe not even 150 cords per year. But at 200 cords for the third year in a row, I could justify it. But five other machines come first

So when is yours being delivered?? Lol 😂

Do know how much that conveyor would be

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

Not sure they have it available yet or what pricing or options would be on it...you'd have to contact them to find out for sure. www.hammerheadattachments.com/

Conveyor

Problem I've run into with techs ,if they didn't sell it to you they won't service it.

Did that table run off of the hydraulics from the splitter.?

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

Yes it did.

The would help but i really like the large platform as well that works also. Tell your from the farm always thinking forward Rick i can relate. The idea definitely came from a shit spreader.

Looks like a hay or straw bailer

@ButchRogers-mb6mr

6 ай бұрын

Converor

Seems like this is built for firewood youtubers who get free promo equipment, or people who don't make a good business plan. Putting a 15k-20k splitter next to an at least 10k conveyor ramp, and then still need to bring the rounds to the conveyor or have that expense saw head. Might as well put that money down on a cheaper processer and save the effort.

@Back40Firewood

6 ай бұрын

But a cheap processor isn't going to be able to handle bigger logs, would probably be limited to around 12"-14" diameter wood that would go through it. AND a processor is going to require the logs coming in to be straight...processors are more limiting than many think.

@DaleFarrish

6 ай бұрын

@@Back40Firewood you are correct Dan, that's why lots of us have both a processor and one or several splitters.

Too much wasted wood with that splitter!!!

It might help get the wood to the splitter, but look at how much work you are doing sorting the splits....a second person is still necessary or you will be going back and forth splitting and sorting, splitting and sorting. I would like to see you do that and see what you think about it then! You are only doing half the job.....the sorting and you are super busy. Lets face it, the laws of physics state you cannot be in 2 places at one time! HA HA. You are concerned with commercial production here, but you claim to have a home wood yard, and not be commercial! I do not get it.

So much waste…

It needs some taller lugs on chain so pieces dont roll back down and would be nice to have a taller side on one side. It would help with pieces rolling out the opposite side when using a tractor bucket to load. I am all for automation, but unfortunately it all comes with a cost that would need to be recovered some how. Yes, firewood production will eventually be almost hands free but us Hobbyist firewood guys will still be swinging a maul!💪🪵🔥

That’s pretty cool Dan back saver for sure, like to see one in your videos 👍, 🪵🔥🚜🏰🚀⛄️