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Students and I building a firewood processor.

Started by Lazy logger, October 16, 2014, 05:19:51 PM

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Oliver1655

What size cylinder will you be using?  The cylinder in the photos doesn't look very large in diameter for the number of splits your multi-wedge will be making even with staggered engagements.
John

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johndeerkiwi

Really enjoying reading about your awesome project and the photos. Look forward to hearing more and eventually how it works in practice. I also appreciate your responses to suggestions and honesty. Keep it up, I wish school was like that for me!
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Lazy logger

Quote from: KiwiBro on April 30, 2015, 11:13:53 PM
Is the wedge vertically adjustable? Or perhaps to be positioned at the very end of the beam? If not, how are you avoiding the bottom splits binding between beam and wedge? I've seen some wedges that are not hydraulically height adjustable but do float a few inches vertically if need be.
Yes the wedge is movable, should be room under it for pieces.
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Lazy logger

Quote from: Oliver1655 on May 01, 2015, 07:54:18 AM
What size cylinder will you be using?  The cylinder in the photos doesn't look very large in diameter for the number of splits your multi-wedge will be making even with staggered engagements.
It is a 5in. cyl. with 4in. rod.
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Lazy logger

Quote from: johndeerkiwi on June 15, 2015, 03:10:54 AM
Really enjoying reading about your awesome project and the photos. Look forward to hearing more and eventually how it works in practice. I also appreciate your responses to suggestions and honesty. Keep it up, I wish school was like that for me!
Thank you for your kind words, we really appreciate it. We hope through this build that someone building there own can learn from our accomplishments and or failures. More is soon to come I had to take a break to "cut firewood for this year" go figure. :-\ 
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Randy88

Nice looking project, keep the photo's coming.   

4x4American

Haven't heard from ya in a spell how's it coming?
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lopet

Make sure you know how to fall properly when you fall and as to not hurt anyone around you.
Also remember, it's not the fall what hurts, its the sudden stop. !!

Oliver1655

Schools out for the summer.  (Seems I've heard this phrase before.)
John

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4x4American

If they didn't finish I assign them to summer school!
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Lazy logger

Hey Guy's, You are correct Lopet, I have been out cutting firewood. Just finished last week. 120 fc I will be back on task this week and will be sending pics soon. Good news from the lawyers they are filing a provisional patent for the bar oil pump this Fri. I hope it works out, if it does my program can get some very needed money for supplies and tooling.
Thanks for checking up on me.
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Lazy logger

Okay, so I have been able to spend some time on this. I now have the drive sprocket for the conveyor mounted. I have also mounted the saw. More to come soon.
 

 


 


 
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4x4American

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Lazy logger

Thanks 4X, Tonight was a little assembly line welding. Fun but man is it hot!!!


 


 


 
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beenthere

The build looks good and very heavy duty.

Wondering where are the students?
south central Wisconsin
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Lazy logger

Thanks Beenthere, The students will be back in three weeks. They are the engineers so they have done most of the design work. We originally planned to have it going by May, but that proved to be a challenge we could not conquer. So I told them I would get what I could put together and when they returned they would be in good shape to finish it this fall. Most everything is just tacked together so they can finish the welding when they get here. The next big challenge will be Hydraulics. We will be looking for input on that subject for sure.
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Lazy logger

Worked on the tank today, exhaust pipe welded to the flan-gets, Installed a baffle plate at the end. Also finishing up the feed conveyor.
Question: What is the best thread sealant for these pipe fittings?
I know Teflon tape is a no,no. But what would you use?



 


  

  

 
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beenthere

Not sure what "pipe fittings" you speak of.  ?? oil/water/air.  pressure? threads? size?
south central Wisconsin
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North River Energy

 LL,
I use a product called Hercules 'Real-Tuff', p# 15-620. Contains teflon in particle form, and seems to work well.


Incidentally, good on you for coming up with this project for your group.  No doubt they've gained something of value.

In the event you didn't get into it previously, why did you decide to go with a more complicated means of bar/chain oiling?  Was scoping out an older Multitek the other day, and the oiling mechanism appeared to have only one moving part.  Had me thinking of this project.

Lazy logger

Just the pipe threads,there are 1/2 up to 1-1/2
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brendonv

I see tape on new equipment all the time. Start a few threads back and i see no issues with tape.
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Lazy logger

Thanks Northriverenergy, The students are learning much and seem to like it. The reason for the pump is we where reading about the different ways of pumping the bar oil we found that there where two styles most everyone uses, the squirt style (We read that these can be finicky to adjust), and an automotive style fuel pump.( which I'm told works ok and is fairly inexpensive) In our minds we thought that it may be better (and more fun) to design a different way to do it. So here we are with something that will hopefully work really great and maybe make some $$$
for our program.
I know the voices in my head aren't real,but sometimes their ideas are just absolutely awesome!

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LAZERDAN

 Hello, If their is one thing I know it's thread sealant.  No teflon tape for Hydraulics. Will work, but not good practice.  This is the stuff.  I hope this works.    Lazerdan


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LAZERDAN

Lazerdan's second choice is loctite 592 thread sealant.  maybe someone else can help with the link.  thanks

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