Waiting on approval from the lease company!!! With any luck there's a Multitek 1610 EZ firewood processor in my future, please God !!!! The Mrs. is infavor so hopefully with a little help from the guy upstairs it could be on its way by the end of the week....... fingers are crossed wish me luck !!!
good luck i hope it works out for ya
Wishing you good luck on your venture.....It should be faster than this...... smiley_chop
Are you going into business or just a little side venture? wish I had one.
Stonebroke
Im getting older, older than my age 44 and cord wood is killing me....... Broken back and bad legs w/ arthritis makes it tough to cut and split a cord of wood each day..... I have been selling firewood since I was 12 years old so this is not a new venture. With a processor I will be able to continue.
last years ice storm raised hell with my wood lot and now I have firewood logs everywhere...
I have had enough w/ the chain saw and old clunker log splitter !!! I could easily drag up 200 cord withing the next month to process. My son who is a little person and in a wheel chair can run the machine and do something to help out, he's always looking to do more/new things........
I also run my sawmill and grow 3-5 acres of vegetables farmstand and farmers market. Diversification is the only way to survive and we are doing it !!!!!
sounds good to me, wish you luck.
Stonebroke
Sounds like a plan.....a good plan. 8)
Quote from: bull on November 15, 2009, 09:34:51 AM
Diversification is the only way to survive and we are doing it !!!!!
You hit that nail right on the head, Bull! A little bit of this and a little bit of that is what will see ya through the lean times. ;)
Keep us posted, Mike. :)
Good luck with your machine. I bought a model 2020 back in 1990. Everyone thought I was nuts paying 35g for a splitter. There 3 times that now for the same machine. Well here I am 19 years later and still running the same machine. There a good machine. I've had good luck and few repairs. My machine has an Iszusu diesel that runs and runs and runs always starts no matter how cold even down to well below 0. Even with a processor it's still a lot of work. I found the best way to handle the wood is to make some kind of a pit or bin with a floor and walls you can push against to use a loader to load. I use a skidsteer with forks to load the live deck then switch to the bucket to load the split wood on my dump truck. I work full time at my sawmill and do wood mornings before work and deliver nights after work. If you want to know anything or if I can help PM me and will talk.
looks like I will be putting my signature on a few peices of paper tommorow...
Good we expect PICTURES and maybe for me a personal demonstration :)
Definetly Craig, I let you know when everything is up and running !!! Should be shipped around thanksgiving.... My wife is telling her friends at work that it will be my christmas present an now all the men want to send there wife's over here to be trained on how to be an awesome wife !!!
I purchaseed a new peterson mill and my wife said that was good ,when I came home in october she asked how i was going tomove this mill around so we went and looked at a truck and also a cargo trailer and she said get them ,somy next thing was I needed an ATV or something to move this log arch and when I asked if it was okay to get an ATV she said okay and talking to the salesperson she pipes up and said you should give us a free helmet and he agreed .Now she informs me my spending day are finished not bad though !
Sounds like it was good while it lasted.......now it's her turn...... :D
Got a call this afternoon, processor is on a truck and on the road!!!!
did you go for the straight EZ or opt for the live deck? the 1610 looks like a very sweet machine for the bucks.
Went with the 2 strand live deck, didn't like how the machine bounced around in the video, when loading witht he single log pickup....
I am with you on the movement, did you see where it looked like one log fell off but they cut the video? BTW I am putting in a down payment on the used 2008 on the web site for delivery Jan 2 8)
firefighter, you forgot the most impotant thing, the ATV is hers you just get to use it more... I bought the wife a dual wheel wheel barrow for her birthday, a ridding lawn mower for mothers day, a roto tiller just because I love her, a chain saw for our anniversary etc !!! Remember in marriage we must share burdens and responsibilites...... 8)
Quote from: bull on November 26, 2009, 08:17:46 AM
firefighter, you forgot the most impotant thing, the ATV is hers you just get to use it more... I bought the wife a dual wheel wheel barrow for her birthday, a ridding lawn mower for mothers day, a roto tiller just because I love her, a chain saw for our anniversary etc !!! Remember in marriage we must share burdens and responsibilites...... 8)
whatever you do, don't buy her a weigh scale :o :o :D :D
Nick
Nick I did buy her a nice lawn mower 2 years ago with electric start so when I was working in Wawa Ontario she could mow the lawn ,she loved it Rose grew up on a farm so she is not shy to work ,she has all ready mad plans for the new ATV.
Back in '89 I was leaving for James Baie in august and was not planning comming back till Christmas , I told da wife I was going to get her something to keep her warm while I was gone ;D She did not take the delivery of a new woodburnin furnace to well . ::)
lease is up in may on the escape, she get a new car then !!
So????
did ya get it yet?
not yet, suppose to see it tommorrow!!!!
run it tomorrow :D
I hope too, got to do the important reading part first !!
:o :o :o :o Oh NO. You're NOT gonna read the instructions, FIRST ??? ??? :o :o :o :o
Quote from: Fla._Deadheader on November 29, 2009, 10:14:02 PM
:o :o :o :o Oh NO. You're NOT gonna read the instructions, FIRST ??? ??? :o :o :o :o
only if all else fails ???
Nick
won't be delivered until sometime after 1pm tuesday >:(
Ya , just us waiting now ..... :-\
Do you all suppose Mike is out still playing with the new toy? It was a nice day for a delivery today...
Captain
You dont supose he forgot the camera and is in hiding now do ya . ???
Nope, trucking delay's...spoke to the trucker around 4 pm just leaving PA. Spoke to the trucker a half hour ago he was pulling out of danbury ct and putting up for the night at the rest stop on the Mass pike will talk to him at 7am and should see him shortly there after..... good things come to those who wait, better things come to those who wait longer......
its here !!! met the trucker at 8:30. Showed him around thru thr willy wags to make his exit easier!!
Didn't need the new loading dock I just built.... trailer was a drop deck with very little clearance, driver was affraid he wouldn't get down into my driveway..... We luck out he had some awaesome ramps. I was able to back my tractor right onto the trailer and pull it off...... Now onto set up and a trial run !!!
I can hear the splitting wood from here, he's been at it for hours now.
Ironwood
Ok yes I had to do it.... Machine is setup. Have some tweeking to do.... Owners manual leaves much to be desired, mostly out of date !! No info on the conveyor system at all..... guess good old common sense will prevail.... but it will have to wait until Saturday......... Leaving in the AM for CapeCod, Annual State Farm Bureau meeting.... 2 days off and an overnight @ a hotel with the Mrs.
You'll get to have some quality time to thanks her for allowing the purchase ;)
Ironwood
Boy I know where I wanna be shopping while you are out of town! ;) ;D :D
nice new equipment and no one is there to run it or stop someone else for running off with it ::) :o :-*
Mark
My son will be here and he has a new 20 gauge on a swing mount attached to his wheel chair and he's becoming a good shot !! I think he'll have it covered and I feel safe that no one will be running off with anything..... beside that my sister will be here making wreaths all weekend and she could give anyone a good swift whoopin " she's a south paw" !! My toys will be well protected !!! ;)
Quote from: bull on December 02, 2009, 06:21:26 PM
My son will be here and he has a new 20 gauge on a swing mount attached to his wheel chair and he's becoming a good shot !! I think he'll have it covered and I feel safe that no one will be running off with anything..... beside that my sister will be here making wreaths all weekend and she could give anyone a good swift whoopin " she's a south paw" !! My toys will be well protected !!! ;)
:D :D :D
Long as she has some "South" in her, she'll be a mean motor scooter. :D
Quote from: bull on December 02, 2009, 06:21:26 PM
My son will be here and he has a new 20 gauge on a swing mount attached to his wheel chair and he's becoming a good shot !! I think he'll have it covered and I feel safe that no one will be running off with anything..... beside that my sister will be here making wreaths all weekend and she could give anyone a good swift whoopin " she's a south paw" !! My toys will be well protected !!! ;)
8)
I could not resist! had to post it after reading the face-book post, lol. People on face-book bragging they are going out of town on cruise ship only to come home to an empty house! nothing like advertising to the crooks you will be out of town!
Mark :D
No crooks on FF.... If there are we will weed them out and make sawdust out of them !!!
Quote from: bull on December 03, 2009, 06:33:25 AM
No crooks on FF.... If there are we will weed them out and make sawdust out of them !!!
ohh in that case who has an empty pellet making machine ;)
Mark
so............................ ??? ??? ??? ???
It is here, I have it set up and have run it have only put 1 cord thru as I have been busy putting equipment away for the winter, getting in firewood for the house and battening down the hatches...
will be in the woods this weekend to start winter logging / ice storm clean up...... But first I will be out cleaning up what mother nature is throwing at us this AM already 4 inches time to start the plowing !$$$$$$$$ Ca ching !!!!
waiting for an update...................... ???
I have cleared packed and graded a log yard and site for the processor. Hopefully the yard will stay frozen today...I will be spreading wood chips on top this morning to hopefully keep the frost in..
Will be working in the woodlot to get a stockpile of logs this week. I have wood allover on the ground *( 103 acres )* thanks to the ice storm... Have to establish a few new haul roads and skid paths, that should get me about 40 cords to start with.....
Update, machine is working well. had a few start up glitches but appears everything is where its belongs and running correctly......
Today, I put 1 cord thru the machine in 2 hrs 20 minutes no help just me, my tractor and the processor. I'm happy with that because i'm not killing my self..... nice steady pace no rushing w/everything cleaned up....... 8)
Big snow coming tonight so it will be a few day before i'm able to run the processor again....
But you've forgotten the most important thing...
pictures. ;D
Coon.
Need a compatable camera, will have to ask the children if they can help...... or else I will have to read more directions..
glad you are happy and it is working well. any idea why 1 cord took over 2 hrs, advertised rate is 1 to 1.5 per hr?
I'm 44 years old....... have to get the rythm of joy sticks, also most of the wood was 4-6 inch, I was also adjusting feed rate and tension on conveyor *( tweeking things)* !!!
1 cord in 2 hrs is better than one cord in 9 hours with the old back, saw, and spliter.... I also put it all in the cellar before the snow storm thought of getting here.....
So ,You are a happy camper?
Stonebroke
Bull, I ordered mine today for delivery in janurary, got the live deck and the 6 way wedge, I have losa 14 16 inch stuff. Now working on customers.