Making 4 m^3 ( ~1 cord) of firewood and stacking half of it on a pallet.

[@DonnDIY]

I bought similar guillotine wood cutter/splitter just because I saw your video on this splitter first. Your video's influence has been huge. This machine works wonders. 👌

[@JuhaErkkila]

Thanks Donn and it is a great machine. BUT i have to share one biggest fuckup what we made with this machine roughly one year ago. 🥺 I was finishing last sticks from the season and my brother with His 2 year old boy came to see and help with those last ones... It was a split second when little boy was unattended and came to see how it works... He placed his right hand into an opening while his dad was on the back side of machine doing some jam cleaning and I was in piling some wood into the tractor bucket. All 5 fingers were cut completely of. It was a terrible moment for both of us to realize what just had happened. Next 30 mins was calling for help and medical helicopter with ambulance and fire truck arrived while brother was holding sons wrist in a firm grip and I was finding the pieces of his fingers from the fire wood pile and eventually found the hand inside of the machine... Surgery attemp took over 20 hours in University hospital but after couple of days none of the attached fingers/hand palm survived. Just roughly one inch after the wrist is left. Tommi is feeling good today after one year of the accident but it has been tough for the adult people around him... Please make sure Donn that you dont let any small or even older kids around the machine while operating it! So stay safe with your purchase and dont let anybody to come around while working!

[@DonnDIY]

@@JuhaErkkila I'm so sorry to hear that... Safety was my first thought that went through my mind now when I'm also a parent. I cannot even imagine the heartache the parents must've felt alongside the child's pain. I'm so sorry.

[@JuhaErkkila]

Yep but luckily life goes on and it could have much worse too. Things are starting to settle down and the little guy himself is quite ok by himself already... Just wanted to remind you about all those risks. Anyway I also believe that kids growing in the country side are getting a lot more opportunities to get different skills in all sorts of things. Parenting just might be a bit toucher job though to watch after those small work worms 😉

[@artisansportsman8950]

Nice equipment , i believe it's the most efficient i have seen

[@JuhaErkkila]

Thanks. It is effective for sure and has been used a lot!

[@duanemorrison6173]

You and your machine are pretty amazing! My back and arms are sore from watching you work so hard. Thanks for the interesting videos and for taking us to your part of Finland.

[@JuhaErkkila]

Thanks for Your compliments and you are welcome any time back! ;)

[@adamasz54]

Perfect machine for thin wood. Doing it classic way you have to cut trunk and then split it separately. Here you have done all in one operation. Having large place you can use it even without any conveyer - just by moving the tractor accordingly. Well done job, Juha !

[@JuhaErkkila]

Thanks from your positive feedback! And you understood it right ;) -This is machine for relatively small diameter wood(like what you get from thinning). Conveyor is a MUST have in this kind of machine... the longer that better! :D

[@adamasz54]

And thanks for your finnish sense of humour - my parents made a journey across Finnland and were enchanted with your country and people as well!

[@PETEROREILLY24]

Why are the logs so long have you a large stove

[@JuhaErkkila]

Peter O Reilly Yes... Stove takes over 50 cm logs inside. There is separate video of that stove if you are interested more about that... 49 kW of nominal power with 4000 liters heat tank and floor heating.

[@scottryan5369]

Thanks for getting back to me mate, that makes a lot of sense now.

[@ProGarageUral]

Великолепная идея, браво!!!!!

[@catskinner650]

Thanks on the info about limbs not drying, I cut a lot of limbs, didn’t cross my mind they don’t dry as quick

[@blitzburghbilly7813]

THE MACHINE IZ ABSOLUTELY AWESOME SPLITS IT & THEN CUTS IT TO LENTH, AND THEN ! RIDES A CONVEYOR BELT TO STACK PILE THE CORD WOOD.... AGAIN: BEAUTIFUL MACHINE 👏🏼 ..... ( KNUCKLE👊🏽BUMP ) Juha Erkkila

[@joetherocku2ube]

If birch is the wood of abundance, then birch is what you burn. You have a nice efficient, one man operation. And birch is a nice hardwood. So... very nice.

[@lowercherty]

Not everybody is blessed with an abundance of oak. It all burns, be it birch, aspen, or pine.

[@JuhaErkkila]

Oak does not survive easily In these regions so Oak is very rare tree around these regions... It can grow but it becomes more like a Bush and not so much tree like

[@mikkei3532]

nice work mate

[@GettingtheTruthOut]

I wonder if that would work on Oak. Aspen is pretty soft.

[@modarkthemauler]

It's powered by the tractor so it definitely has enough power to gut oak as well. He's cutting birch, a hardwood.

[@dave9073]

THAT MACHINE IS ABSOLUTELY DEADLY. Interesting piece of machinery. That thing wouldn't pass ANY countries consumer safety codes.

[@JuhaErkkila]

Yes You are right in that it has potential for very bad accident... This unit has had some kind of cage guard in the opening but that was removed 20 years ago. Similar machine is still in sale equipped with that guard... Anyway I like this machine a lot and for me its way more safe to use than regular axe ;)

[@LostCaper]

I process and sell firewood and have a youtube channel with my operations. Looks like you are doing things very efficient and you are doing it your way which is the most important. Nice job.

[@JuhaErkkila]

Thank you for your compliments! :) Been doing fire wood for own purposes for years now. There is allways room for improvement and trying to ease my own workload. Subscribed your channel! :D

[@LostCaper]

As an old humous guy from my area says.... I have to handle the wood so many times that you got it near wore out before you get to burn it. I guess it says a lot about trying to reduce the amount of time you have to handle the wood.

[@QNATURUNDHUND]

Come from the land of the Stihl chain saws... Hello Nice Video . Peter

[@JuhaErkkila]

Stihl is my choice too! Nice engineering and manufacturing.

[@skeets6060]

If you please just what kind of a stove are you using that small stuff in?

[@JuhaErkkila]

skeets kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3SzapmvnrqokLM

[@JuhaErkkila]

You can check the stove from another video

[@joachimschreiber7835]

cool. i want one of those woodcrackers!! where can one get those?

[@jacquesblaque7728]

Approximate reckoning: 4 cu. m. is about .5 short of a cord (128 cu. ft.) Result of inflation?

[@JuhaErkkila]

Heh :) :)

[@lowercherty]

Other way around. 4 m3 is about 141 cu ft, or 1.1 cords. It looks lke an excellent system you're using. I'm in NE Minnesota, about the same climate and geography as central Finland. Aspen, Birch, and various pines are our dominant trees too. Judging from the pine shaped trees with no needles it looks like you also have a lot of what we call Tamarack. Burns very hot and smells like oranges when cut.

[@ProGarageUral]

Hello friend, you can make a detailed review of your chopping machine, really liked it, preferably measure the diameter of the circle and the thickness of the cutting blade. Thank you and greetings from Russia.

[@keithwalker7151]

That's a great system you've got there! Does the wood seem to finish drying well being stacked in double rows like that? I wanted to do that but wasn't sure it would give enough airflow...

[@JuhaErkkila]

Well you are right that airflow is critical... Double row is not critical in that sense compared how dense you push your whole warehouse full and how the airflow gets the moist out from the inside. Of course the outside of doublestacks will first dry much faster but it will dried through over one year so time does the trick. One thing that helps me is that I'm not concerned in small (i mean really small) mold build up since this firewood is used in boiler room and not to be brought inside where people breathe. For example year 2017 was really problematic in Finland for drying firewood without any sign of mold since weather stayed moist during whole summer... In Finland all firewood should be chopped before eastern since those few spring months are the real deal to dry firewood. Two months in spring time correspond to whole rest of the year if I say it mean ;)

[@simonvestergard7198]

How long do you made the pieces

[@JuhaErkkila]

simon vestergard in the region of 53 cm

[@scottryan5369]

Nice setup you have there, only question I have is why do you cut your wood so small diameter wise?

[@JuhaErkkila]

You can also just cut small diameter wood with that machine... Just to position it an either of the sides of the opening preventing the splitting part of the blade to hit tree trunk...Reason why I in this case split also really small diameter trees that it is birch... Bark in that is bit skin like and it holds moisture inside the tree and almost preventing it to dry. It is even possible to loose part of the heat value of the wood especially in small diameter since it starts rotten inside very quikly. One reason is also that i personally like split small wood since it is easier to light up compared to round sticks. And in our boiler it can be used for initial fire up to give quick heat.Only bad thing is that it makes stacking job slower but I prefer the pros over that.

[@psimobilepressurewashing1569]

A cord of wood is 4 feet wide 4 feet tall 8 feet long

[@skeets6060]

What kind of stove are you burning that in?

[@JuhaErkkila]

There is a separate video of the heating system. You can view that and see the stove in action... kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3SzapmvnrqokLM

[@nickymurray1777]

Could you show us your stove working?.

[@JuhaErkkila]

Nicky Murray That's a good idea. Have to make a video about that too! 😉

[@JuhaErkkila]

Nicky Murray kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3SzapmvnrqokLM Here you are! 😊

[@marcusbennetoft5473]

very effectice at that size of wood

[@passionnature5690]

Excellent 👍💕👍

[@johnwayneisthisme3475]

Nice machine I like it...

[@SergeiWasilih]

скажите диаметр колеса рубящего...спасибо

[@JuhaErkkila]

Я должен измерить его где-нибудь в ближайшие недели

[@billray1785]

Did your camera nearly get chopped and then went up the belt, if so that was a bit of luck. Nice sound when the wood gets chopped, very satisfying for some reason

[@JuhaErkkila]

Bill Ray I through the gopro on purpose to the conveyor belt to get inside look! 😉 Dropping firewood broke one of the fixing accessories from the gopro housing... 🤔😣 But somehow different kind of footage anyway!?! 😉

[@SergeiWasilih]

можно попросить подробный обзор рубильной машины?

[@JuhaErkkila]

www.klapituiko.fi/kt200-3/ Todays model I quess

[@SergeiWasilih]

Спасибо!!!

[@459luker]

That is so satisfying

[@JuhaErkkila]

That's true! -At least it's really nice to feel the warmth during winter! ;)

[@krankyger4687]

nice process :D

[@JuhaErkkila]

krankyGER Thanks! :)

[@psimobilepressurewashing1569]

A face cord not a bush cord

[@chlyon]

5.09 cubic m thrown to a cord :)

[@samuelluria4744]

4 cubic meters is way more than "~" 1 cord!

[@JuhaErkkila]

3,62 m^3 is quite close to 4. The amount of wood what you get inside is heavily dependent on the stacking method. There the comparison between different methods gives you easily differencies of 50% or even 100% if you dont convert for example stacked volume into a fixed volume correctly.

[@heraldchung4420]

What would Labour dept say about safety.

[@JuhaErkkila]

Herald Chung Would not be possible to use that kind of machine in any salary based work. At least in Finland it would be immediate stop treat for employer. That legislation does not apply when operating machine as private person as myself. I do not let anybody else to use this machine to prepare firewood for me.

[@bcubed72]

Why would "Labour Dept" have any issue? All the sharp bits are hidden behind a shroud; there aren't any loose belts, gears, etc to get hung up on. OF COURSE sticking your hand in the opening would be stupid, but you could say that about a lawn mower. Where's the hazard?

[@catchmeifyoucan2815]

I don't see it either ... his hands are at least a foot away at al times from the "business" part ... looks perfectly safe with common sense use.

[@stephentarabetz7192]

That's not firewood that's kindling

[@JuhaErkkila]

Stephen Tarabetz Kindling or not... There it all goes in the same boiler! 😊

[@jacquesblaque7728]

Not just size, but also species.Even yellow birch is MUCH better fuel. I deal mainly in storm blowdowns, and mill whatever possible, of course.

[@StephenMortimer]

This is work for TEENAGERS !!

[@amineamine7565]

Rooo le travail de MERDE. C'est pas des bûches m'ai des allumettes toutes fines

[@tooge47]

you call THAT firewood? LOL, sissy wood here in rural MS ! How do you split REAL trees?

[@Theorimlig]

Handling logs this size is very efficient, and easy to do by hand. This guy works in real forestry, where these thinnings are a byproduct of forest management. I imagine he splits "real trees" the normal way if he ever has to, but why would he?

[@tooge47]

can't speak for HIM, but here in rural MS, what we get are LARGE oak rounds, some so wide I'm doing good to get them under a vertical hydraulic splitter !!!!

[@JuhaErkkila]

Yep You are right. All so called REAL trees are going to saw mill... If rotten then to pulp mill. I burn only wood that cant be utilized in any other way meaning dead & dried wood and these small ones from the thinning or maybe even closer to plant management.

[@Edmonchuck]

Now now...don't speak logic when a pee pee contest erupts! You're right. Forestry management is the way to go. Larger, millable logs are a shame to make into firewood.

[@lowercherty]

Why would anyone in Mississippi need to make firewood other than to smoke brisket and ribs?😉

[@joem1413]

I'll bet he doesn't reach retirement with out losing fingers or hand....

[@JuhaErkkila]

I kind of need to bet against that! ;)