#10 looks awesome. But how well does it perform when you feed it something full of knots? I've never seen a automatic splitter that didn't need manual intervention, at least occasionally, when you feed it knotty wood.
One of the local fire wood suppliers here has one. They easily sell a couple of thousand cords of wood every year, much of it kiln dried, used by folks to heat their homes. (I have used them from time to time if I didn't have enough well-seasoned firewood on hand to heat my home over the winter.) I think they said it paid for itself in less than two years
I used to work for a company that sold pallet making machines. We displayed ours at a woodworking exhibition in France. Most of the machines required manual loading of pieces of pre cut timber which the machine would nail together before spitting out a completed pallet. One machine was completely automated, stacks of timber were loaded into various hoppers and the machine did everything else. I never saw it actually working. Pallet wood tends to be rather roughly cut and not very accurately. I suspect that the machine would have worked brilliantly if the timber had been accurately cut but the cost of buying in such precisely machined wood would have made it uneconomical.
#10. That is one heavy duty splitter. We warmed a machine shop once with wood but we went with 8 foot long logs and used an old dragline handle them with.
They look like Blackbirds to me. I've seen them swarm like that at my family ranch, usually just before sunset. Many times there are thousands of them flying together like a big, black, swirling cloud.
I had a poplar tree in my backyard that the starlings decided to roost in. It was like that. I had to go out in the evening and shoo them off with a firecracker or there would be piles of bird shit under the tree the next morning. It took a couple of days but they finally got the idea. It got so bad in the city that they were using detergent on them to reduce the population.
#2 If my Yellow Lab was competing, and the distractions were 6 people next to the red carpet, he'd love every one of them before completing the challange, and then go back and do it again.
#10 looks awesome. But how well does it perform when you feed it something full of knots? I've never seen a automatic splitter that didn't need manual intervention, at least occasionally, when you feed it knotty wood.
ReplyDeleteIt is a Hahn HFP160 (or something similar). At ~$30K, you will need to split a huge amount of wood to fund the purchase cost.
Deletehttps://forestryequipmentsales.com/29/Firewood-Processors.html
Wirecutter has some hickory to test it on...
DeleteOne of the local fire wood suppliers here has one. They easily sell a couple of thousand cords of wood every year, much of it kiln dried, used by folks to heat their homes. (I have used them from time to time if I didn't have enough well-seasoned firewood on hand to heat my home over the winter.) I think they said it paid for itself in less than two years
DeleteI used to work for a company that sold pallet making machines. We displayed ours at a woodworking exhibition in France. Most of the machines required manual loading of pieces of pre cut timber which the machine would nail together before spitting out a completed pallet. One machine was completely automated, stacks of timber were loaded into various hoppers and the machine did everything else. I never saw it actually working. Pallet wood tends to be rather roughly cut and not very accurately. I suspect that the machine would have worked brilliantly if the timber had been accurately cut but the cost of buying in such precisely machined wood would have made it uneconomical.
DeleteGerman Shepard and Golden, absolutely typical behaviour.
ReplyDeleteActually, that looks like a Belgian Malinois to me, not a German Shepherd.
DeleteLove the expression on the Golden’s face of “I’ve totally got this”, just before starting its run.
DeleteYep Belgian Malinois it is. In the top 5 best breeds.
DeleteBelgian Malinois - preferred "war dog" of the US Navy Seals. Cairo was the dog used during the "lets grab Osama bin Laden" mission.
Delete#7 She looks like she's wondering what else that GI-raffe can do.
ReplyDelete#7: I don't think that's her first time.
ReplyDelete#10. That is one heavy duty splitter. We warmed a machine shop once with wood but we went with 8 foot long logs and used an old dragline handle them with.
ReplyDeleteI've burned wood all my life, and I'm still looking for a way to burn it tree length.
Delete(other than in a forest fire)
#2: clearly the only way that dog got there if it was ELECTED.
ReplyDelete#10 - I NEED one of those for about ten minutes a year. Instead, I swing an ax for my measly couple cords. Getting too old ...
ReplyDelete#2. Original video here https://youtu.be/5iTTNRE-njM
ReplyDeleteThe golden knows he’s the REAL winner in that race. The other dogs missed out on all that food.
is #3 birds or bats?
ReplyDeleteThey look like Blackbirds to me. I've seen them swarm like that at my family ranch, usually just before sunset. Many times there are thousands of them flying together like a big, black, swirling cloud.
DeleteHere ya go.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iScsOGMrPyI
Birds. Probably starlings.
DeleteI had a poplar tree in my backyard that the starlings decided to roost in. It was like that. I had to go out in the evening and shoo them off with a firecracker or there would be piles of bird shit under the tree the next morning. It took a couple of days but they finally got the idea. It got so bad in the city that they were using detergent on them to reduce the population.
Birds! #8 is a good artist, never thought of pancake batterand griddle as a medium!!! grayman
Delete#2 If my Yellow Lab was competing, and the distractions were 6 people next to the red carpet, he'd love every one of them before completing the challange, and then go back and do it again.
ReplyDelete#4, That moment when you realise You are going over the falls. That moment can seem like forever in big waves.
ReplyDelete#6 - nice trick
ReplyDelete#8 - creepy crawlers / creeple people / incredible edibles - remember from the misty past when I was a kid