Wood processors

[mainiac]

Someone e-mailed me the other day asking if I ever bought a processor last year so I thought I would give an update. I tried emailing  them back, but it got kicked back to me.

In February'08, I took delivery of my Timberwolf Pro-MP. I was loading it with my B7500 Kubota and after I almost tipped over for the second time, I found an old pulp truck that I now use to load and move wood around.

First year sales was about 75 cord and I missed out on about 50 cord because I could not get logs. To much compition for the trees last summer.

On average, it takes me about 1.5-2 hours per cord to process. That is by myself. The brow will hold not quite 1/2 of a cord at a time.

To sum it up- I love my machine and will be expecting many years of use from it.
Timberwolf Co. is outstanding to deal with.

Mainiac

[beenthere]

Good for you. 

Now, what is a brow?

[SwampDonkey]

A place to unload and store logs. It was a term used in Maine and New Brunswick when horse logging, basically a place to deck logs where they were loaded onto sleds as a load was harvested. He might mean his decking for his processor. Brow of logs, is a phrase commonly used here.

[mainiac]

Yup! What  swampdonkey said.

Did not realize that was a regional term.

Mainiac

[thecfarm]

Brow may also be an old timer word.I use to hear my Father say it.I have a brow in front of my mill to put my logs onto.Probaly now the new word is deck?

[gunman63]

HI, I was just wondering if u got the $80 a cord u thought about charging for cutting and splitting, I dont think we could get $40  here in northern Mn, But then with my processor i can do 2 cords an hour in most wood.

[SwampDonkey]

gunman, double that and more here in New Brunswick.

[gunman63]

WOW, thats good money. Is there  much for custom processing up there. A guy could make $160 a hr. and up  with one, granted it isnt all the time and have to figure move time in there, but its a good start.

[barbender]

Do you mean $80 per cord total or just for the processing?? I think around $40 per cord for just the processing sounds about right around here, so if you paid $80 per cord for the wood you would be trying to get $120 for it when you are done.

[gunman63]

I took it he was getting $80 for processing it, I could be wrong tho.  If u buy wood for  $80 a cord delivered in, (buying 200 cords hardwood for just under $60 delievered in right now), and figure $40 for processing, thats $120, plus holding it for 6 plus months, and delivery in the fall, U need to get $160-170 a cord to come out.

[SwampDonkey]

Around here, if you have to purchase it, you won't get it for less than $100 a cord from the loggers, plus trucking. Heck the cutters get anywhere from $30- $50 a cord around here. For prices that low they must be cutting in easy timber and cutting high volumes per day.

[Kodiakmac]

Here's one made in Smiths Falls, Ontario.  Don't know anything about prices.

http://www.cord-master.com/

Their Cord King Compact model won some competition in SC...apparently split 7.42 cph.

[riggin rat]

I have a multitek 20-20 here in washington state, I love it runs 6 days a week. I have 3 skidders,2 logtrucks, one swing yarder, 1 grapple cat,3 shovels, 2 dangle heads and only the firewood proccessor and logtrucks have worked since mid oct.

[Sawyerfortyish]

I've run my Multitek 2020 since I bought it in 1990. There a good machine very little down time.