I Built a crazy wood processor

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jmur1

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Oct 5, 2017
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Guelph ON
I had been around wood sawing and general firewood for many years. I have Woodmizer saw (LT30). This means there is also a large supply of slab firewood at my shop. I wanted to design my own processor and looked around at the various options available. I had a two jobs to accomplish with this processor design - slabs and split firewood and I wanted one machine to do both. Lots of chainsaw and buzz saw experience led me to lean in the large blade direction based on the blade maintenance and speed differences. I found a Ø 26-1/2" Carbide blade on Ebay. I bought the blade and started to layout how the new machine could work. I came up with a layout that I had not seen anyone else do - I wondered if it would ever work - but I went ahead and built it anyhow.
 
This story starts with me finding a large (Ø28") blade on ebay, buying it and laying out several concept assemblies to use it in.

This is the final/original design assembly I came up with:


 
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Pro-e model looks like a good start. Pro-e / Creo the gift that keeps giving, just a joke as we users only curse it 3 times a day at work.

Looks like it will be "Made in Canada" this is a good thing.
 
This story starts with me finding a large (Ø28") blade on ebay, buying it and laying out several concept assemblies to use it in.

This is the final/original design assembly I came up with:



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I ran the ProE model simulations for all the main structural parts and made some major changes to the splitter design and smaller changes to other components.
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Pro-e model looks like a good start. Pro-e / Creo the gift that keeps giving, just a joke as we users only curse it 3 times a day at work.

Looks like it will be "Made in Canada" this is a good thing.

I curse Pro-E Every time I see a file come in from a customer......
 
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That's pretty great. Nice work there.
 
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jmur1, Great to see your project come to life. I have been using Pro-e for a couple decades now and its very good to see you putting it to work on a "G JOB" here is the states this term is used for personal project. Keep us updated.
 
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Here is the machine as built! There are a number of added components, and more to come.


Dude, that's awesome. You just need a stool to rest on while you're running it. But I'm sure you already thought of that.

One question- how did you decide on a circular saw rather than a chainsaw? Can you get blades for that down at home despot?
 
Dude, that's awesome. You just need a stool to rest on while you're running it. But I'm sure you already thought of that.

One question- how did you decide on a circular saw rather than a chainsaw? Can you get blades for that down at home despot?

Thanks ED 3000!:

The blade was really the whole reason the project got started. I saw the blade on Ebay and went from there. I was able to buy several of these blades used. They can be resharpened as required. The blades are the Ø28" XL 4000 - available from several vendors online.
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That is impressive. Nice work it's quite a machine.
 
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so i would gather that you are limited to apx 12" diameter log.
 
I had some high level testing on the processor this year. I ran a double trailer load of mixed knotty maple though and found the rate of damage jump up drastically. I posted this video that gives an idea of the crooked winding logs requiring constant winching- and if you wait till the end it shows the moment the lower wedge was sheared clean off.

I called it Homemade Wood Processor has a Bad Day



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