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Just bought myself a new log saw
« on: March 02, 2013, 08:42:30 pm »
After playing with my old cast iron saw bench and giving up on the idea of it ever being made light enough for my little tractor to lift I've bought a new health and safety happy model. It looks great to go on my sub compact, but I'm worried it'll look a bit silly hanging from the front of a huge great mog! What do you guys think?
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Re: Just bought myself a new log saw
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2013, 10:00:05 pm »
Yeah it looks good  :). I bought a Chinese chipper and i dont think ur saw would look as stupid as my little Chipper did  ;D.
Did you not fancy logging with a chainsaw? Thats thw only way i do it but thats what i'm used to  :-[
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Re: Just bought myself a new log saw
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2013, 10:26:50 pm »
To run a decent powered chainsaw all day on fuel and oil works out quite expensive, very noisy and I find it uncomfortable after a couple of hours. You've got the issue of small timber snatching on the chain too. Along with all the stops you have to make to refuel so often and sharpening/chain wear it can be a pain.

With a bench you can run all day on a tank of red, which in my little Kubota costs about £3 as it's only 600cc - 12.5hp. No fuss, just pick up a log and run it through. The timber loss to sawdust if you do a lot is greatly reduced and the blades stay sharp for months not hours. Add to that the relatively short life span of a high revving two stroke engine and the bench comes out a winner every time. A mog would run one easily just ticking over so it's quiet in comparison.

If you get a chance to watch one running or use one try it. You'll be pleasantly surprised by their simplicity I think. Here's a video of the one I've bought working...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00-y8f-SAXI&list=UUdwsN1hLj5Sif_sePfmnI-g&index=10
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Re: Just bought myself a new log saw
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2013, 10:20:15 am »
Ok its rather quick cutting larger timber lol. I guess on a mog u could run on 1000pto and run the mog at 1000 engine speed. It would use very little diesel ad well :) I might look into one.....
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Re: Just bought myself a new log saw
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2013, 02:47:02 pm »
That looks like a really good piece of kit. What do they cost?

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« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2013, 05:07:58 pm »
They come in at just over £1k new, not sure if that's including vat or not. I just paid £750 for mine used but it still has all it's paint so hasn't done much.

This one is made in Italy and imported by Riko UK. There are a few makes out there, some with screw or hydraulic splitters built in too and the top of the range also have a conveyor so you can feed what you've cut and split straight into the bed of your pickup or a trailer.

With a big engine like a mog it'll cut even faster than it does in the video. You can hear the tractor engine strain a little which allows the blade to slow. Keep them running flat out and they fly through the wood like a hot knife through butter.
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« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2013, 06:01:36 pm »
I guess you do a fair bit of logging for you boiler then? Do you split as well? How do you go about sharpening the blade? the one thing I hate about logging is bending over all the time. At 6'2 it can be a long way down lol  :D
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Re: Just bought myself a new log saw
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2013, 06:08:42 pm »
looks tidy :) and simple as well, so easy to fix if it goes wrong. :)
can you get them with bars to set a fixed lengh?

and personally this is my favourite splitter  :)

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« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2013, 06:21:40 pm »
To a point I just like my toys. For personal use I get through about 18m3 per winter so not a massive amount. When I get surplus I sell it so I can get through up to maybe 50m3 per year. I still split all my wood with an axe - a nice Gransfors maul. I want a screw splitter too but if I keep buying these little affordable treats I'll never save up enough to buy a mog!

It's got a chain that hangs down on the far side of the blade so you know where to cut. I'm sure that could be replaced with a stop bar if needed, but a chain is probably going to be a good enough guide?
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« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2013, 06:25:25 pm »
Brian, that thing's insane! :o
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« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2013, 06:35:35 pm »
The screw splitters are great coz there simple, but they can spin the l :Dogs. There also great on hard wood bit there a bit of a pin in willows as the fibers hold it together. I like my toys to so I think i'll try finding a saw bench now  ;D :D
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« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2013, 06:57:19 pm »
back in the day when we did logs we were gonna build one of them, theyre really simple  :)
And we have a screw splitter, a hydrocrack, we have what was back then the big one, but they might do bigger now.
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« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2013, 07:07:14 pm »
The estate bought there's through eBay. Think it was about £450 a few years back. I recon screws spilt as much as hydraulic splitters
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« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2013, 09:42:44 pm »
I'm very tempted to get one but I've decided that this saw bench needs to be my last purchase for a while.

Our car broke not all that long ago and we needed to buy a new one. I put all my mog savings into it and we still needed to borrow a bit. My other half has now said that when the car loan is sorted (hopefully the middle of summer if I can pile everything I have to spare into it) we can then look into investing in a mog!

The way I see it, the way the prices have gone up recently even allowing for the recession, when we come out of it they're probably going to rocket? So I may just take out a small loan to buy one before that happens. I don't like borrowing money but sometimes when prices seem to be climbing like they have recently it's a cheaper option than saving!
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« Reply #14 on: March 03, 2013, 10:20:37 pm »
screw splitters split more than hydrolic splitters as they work around knots, not through them  ;) and theyre faster.

and having a mog is better than having money in the bank as far as we're concerned, they are always going up in value, especially the older more compact models.
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