Making firewood and modifying homemade firewood processor

[@6minutemedia543]

Really appreciate you taking the time to tell the story with different angles. It takse much longer than people realise not to mention the edit. Thanks for sharing. Ian

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Thanks, yeah it sure takes a couple of hours trying to puzzle all the footage together

[@Paddington60]

I do like CAD, Cardboard Aided Design, good work, thank for bringing us along!

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

It sure works!

[@cjm6271]

I liked the two modifications solving the log advance problem. Reducing friction in one area and increasing it in another.👍🏼

[@MrPhotodoc]

Thanks for taking the time to show more of the wood operation.

[@casimirkonrad9590]

Seven things to tell it's not Camarata: - he uses the right tools - he takes care of his equipment - he maintains his machines before they break down - he doesn't paint on rust - he uses the machines and does not abuse them - he respects the environment - he doesn't use stupid units of measurement from the Middle Ages By the way: Grattis till att du har nått 100 000 prenumeranter. Fortsätt så!

[@SanDer-eu7sb]

Love the positive feedback read between the lines. What I think makes the most difference is the climate. Swedes are so used to having to deal with the colder and winter weather and the accompanying snow plus freezing temperatures. That's why they built to last and not to be able to use equipment the whole year around and see it as a write off as soon as enough revenue has been made for it to not getting cared about. Scandinavians in general prefer taking pride in what they produce and rather fix it before taking it to a tip

[@jonnafry]

Great to see your firewood processor getting real life testing and refinement - your videos are nicely crafted and great viewing.

[@thouartit]

Safety suggestion: like using a stick to feed wood board into a table saw, make one like your pick with a longer handle. That way you will not need to put your arm between the blade and the wood pusher. It takes just ONE missed time button push and you will have one arm left. Wise up- never stick your hand in there. Very dangerous, I know from personal experience.✂

[@Sequesterer]

Totally agree. My tougth as well. Never put yourself between cutting area and itemwhen things are moving

[@Justin-C]

100%. I was just watching at 10:20 and thinking... one slip and less than 1 second away from losing fingers and/or a whole arm.

[@tenj00]

Yes my thought exactly. This is something that goes wrong once in a 10.000 times. But you only have 2 hands, so.... Trust me, I know how these things go wrong. Murphy's law and all.

[@nigelphillips9426]

Ive picked a hand up off a crosscut bench fortunately they were able to reattach it no joke keep safe

[@juliengamez7446]

tought the same in a split second your arm or hand is gone i had once my finger stuck between a hydraulic clap and it ript the top of my finger off clean

[@lofman]

Funniest part was when your father tried to figure out the controls. I could hear the cogs in his head grinding, all the way to Skåne! 😂

[@gordoncampbell4706]

I was having a fit when I saw you reach in between the blade and the ram to adjust the logs, soon after you used a claw tool for this purpose. Thank you Mattias, please stay safe. Skål

[@cjm6271]

Still loving your videos! As you started to scrape the snow from your truck bed, I was thinking that I should suggest that you might consider making us a video of you creating a bed vibrator for the truck. But I quickly realized that would not have helped in this situation (too crusty and frozen). Then my brain wanted to see if you could have taken a strong piece of dimensional lumber pinched in your grapple that might then be used like a paint scraper on the snow. I have to get to my therapist now.

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Thanks, i actually do have footage cleaning it with a birch, may include that in a future film

[@MiniMachines1]

Was surprised how cheap that setup was too run, my first thought was that's a lot of engines running. Nice job😊

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Thanks, i was kind of surprised too!

[@hollandduck79]

Hello from the Netherlands. thanks for the video. Sincerely Hollandduck

[@rexwells4552]

Your ability to analyze and solve problems is quite amazing.I loved the video

[@genegustafson1665]

I live in northern Wisconsin near lake Superior's south shore, I have lived here all my life, in a small town of Grand View Wisconsin, I was raised to respect all and be honest and respectful caring, help others in need and be kind, most of the people are swedish and Norwegian, and German with a few Pollock's and fins.

[@erik_dk842]

Gustafsson - like in the movie Grumpy old Men

[@roosenlodewijkwiggers4594]

Two tips to give: 1) make the pusher slide on a V,-bed that way the wood automatically after cutting will center itself for the splitter (option also could be to weld 2x4cm pipes on the bed sides and make the pusher go over them, easier fix then make a V-bed ) 2) weld some standup 10 cm metal sheet on outsides of the grate that takes the sawdust/chips down. That way wood blocks won't slide of to the side when going down into bucket. BUT very great work, love watching these kind of videos

[@Dysiode]

Love your CAD (cardboard aided design) work!

[@roynilsen6278]

Hello. Wanted to thank you for these great videos you have posted. I have really enjoyed them. Are you in Sweden or Norway? Thinking Sweden?

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Hi, thanks for watching! Its in northern Sweden

[@roynilsen6278]

I live on east coast of US but visit family in Kristiansand,Norway every other year. Thanks again. I appreciate all the hard work you put into your projects and videos

[@mykalmcb]

The modifications to the cutting unit were spot on. I would be curious to know the weight difference between the neatly stacked wood bags -vs the randomly filled bag. Love your videos!

[@bobrobert6277]

id say 3.5 for 2 stacked

[@bobjames4452]

I think you need to create a centering mechanism for the splitter. Spring loaded wings that are triggered when the log is in the 'V' area just before the splitter. Makes me cringe when I see you reach into the danger zone just to center a cutoff for splitting. Love your content and appreciate your ingenuity and mad skills when fabricating. Keep the content coming!

[@collinstrid]

That pinch point between the ram and the splitter-blade. Every time you reach in to adjust a log is cringe. Please don't get hurt. All it takes is one glove to get caught and one relay/valve to stick. I like your tool with the spike to move and adjust the wood between the blade and ram.

[@JH-lo9ut]

A Swedish hand surgeon has actually written a thesis on "hand injuries derived from accidents with homemade wood splitting devices". The doctor was interviewed on the radio, and the things i heard before I managed to turn the thing off made me sick to my stomach. It is no joke.

[@Timothy-lb2vr]

Familiarity breeds carelessness

[@arielinoa9161]

Same

[@h276wah7]

Too true ​@@Timothy-lb2vr

[@erik_dk842]

​@@JH-lo9utOch då tok den foten. Scare ad in Anslagstavlen about a man clearing his blocked snow blower by kicking at the hard snow

[@quietbrianquiet]

Nice to see you back with another video. That looks like a well oiled machine the way you have it running now. Looks like you have a huge wood business there. WOW. The drone shots are just beautiful. I said before you live in a beautiful part of the world. What is the flag on the other side of the barn? It was blowing back and forth a little but couldn't make out what it was. Thanks Mattias for another good video.

[@waste0ftime1]

That's a thin version of the Swedish Flag 🇸🇪 I agree! It is very beautiful, especially the northerm parts above the polar circle where Mathias lives.

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Thanks, i sure have a few years worth of firewood now. So next year i can relax instead!

[@quietbrianquiet]

@@M.BJOERNSTROEM Something tells me you won't relax.

[@Larry-325]

Always good to see you videos come up. Nice firewood operation . Good upgrade also! 👍👍

[@coreyriley7160]

Great to see the modification was fruitful.

[@ericlakota1847]

That is nice i like how your out side the skid steer so you can fine tune operation

[@morice3]

Congratulations great video and great work. However, it could help you to install a horizontal woodcutter (therefore cross) so as to make a double cut for larger diameter logs, so you would find yourself dividing the trunk directly into 4 small pieces instead of using your hands to reposition the trunk to be split a second time. Obviously you should make sure that this horizontal axe can be removed quickly when a smaller diameter trunk arrives on the machine.

[@SuperHaptics]

An infrared curtain sensor similar to elevator doors with a relay will keep your arm and your dads attached. One vertical strip at the dlade side another vertical strip at the pusher side. Once you put your arm between the strips the pusher valve is made to open.

[@lucm70]

I was wondering where this was then I saw the flag !🇸🇪 Hello from eastern Canada ! 🇨🇦

[@gordonagent7037]

Hi Matthias, can I ask is this your business or a family enterprise? Is it your land and forest you log or lease? What sort of trees? Do you log timber all year round or is it seasonal? I love you fabrication work, you certainly build things to last which is no mean feat in the tough environment your equipment works in and you do a great job of maintaining all your equipment which is a real credit to you. I had a farm and one way I could make it pay for itself was to do my own maintenance so I gather you do it for similar reasons. Anyway, great content and visuals, keep up the great work

[@dd-oe8zv]

So amazed by life up there, it seems so calm.I really like how you improve and get better as you go along. Maybe two foot pedals would free up hands and improve it further ?

[@torbjorngunnarsson2986]

I like the ingenuity of using an old luggage belt to load the truck But you need a knife that splits into more pieces

[@janklaas3242]

Nice excavator skills!

[@dalepeterson5609]

Milwaukee 2780 grinder. 😃 I fix Milwaukee tools for a living. Don't get rid of it when the motor stops working. 9 times out of 10 the ball bearing has gone bad, which wouldn't be covered under warranty, and can be easily replaced by itself.

[@ThePullnfool]

Very good operator on the little excavator.. Nice and smooth..

[@petter5721]

Nice welding equipment 👍🏻

[@ScinnerNo1]

The front of the ram that push the cut log into the knife should be more shaped like a V and the chute walls angled up to match the new shape. That way the smaller logs would center easier. Maybe to big of a mod but it could also save your right hand.

[@TimberTrainer]

It's really neat to see your creation put to good use. It seems to work well.

[@AddictedtoProjects]

Always nice to see a new video from you! Also quite impressed by that old AEG Grinder you still have working for you. From the old "West" Germany. When that was still a thing. Very surprised it's still working (or maybe I shouldn't be?) :)

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Thanks, it sure got the job done!

[@АндрейАнтонов-е7ф]

Молодец! Приятно смотреть видео автора, респект от души!

[@heymakerphd1982]

You look to be a very successful woodchucker. What factors do you attribute to your success? Snow that doesn't freeze/thaw? Surplus baggage handler Luftfarht trucks? The way your little welder makes everything look factory made? The forest full of those firestarter logs? The current price of firewood? Your Dad, with his good counsel? Any plans to make/sell duplicates of your pick? What money equivalent was that truckload worth? What's the current price on those stacked bags? And on the diesel? I was fascinated the whole video! Especially noticing, you were warm, but the snow wasn't melting at all. What was the temp that day? And all that flatland from the drone. I had no idea! Nice equipment. Your banker must've been desperate for firewood one winter!! I can't do that. My banker goes to Florida most of the winter! - You speak better English than I do, a native! I actually can speak two languages, American english and Canadian!! Good show, heh!

[@harrytaylor6854]

Great to see another great video from you well done thank you

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Thanks for watching!

[@chrisoakey9841]

You should consider changing the first metal guides that prepare the cut wood for splitting. If you have them sprung from the sides and an initial curve near the piston, they will center the wood for you, then if the log is too small, the piston will seperate them enough to not jam. I would also add a horizontal splitting wedge so most logs get auto split into 4.

[@donprater2754]

Innovation at it’s best!

[@michaelovitch]

You should avoid using hands to move logs in front of the wedge while the ram is moving. A sharp ice axe or similar custom tool would save you your right hand from a mistake.

[@pierreruwet8479]

You could also add some piece of metal helping auto centering of the wood pieces

[@michelray1396]

Exellentes modifications 👍👍👍🏆👏👏🇨🇭

[@danacampbell-vu2ut]

Maybe you should make either a 4 or 6 way wedge. It would cut down on handling the wood so many times. 👍❤️📹🤔😃

[@stjimtemyth995]

awesome stuff your building. great stories. been watching all day, a lot of commercial splittlers come with a pulling or lifting arm. also i think you should use winches more than heavy lifting of logs

[@DerFledderer]

The dream! Btw do you have 2 similar excavators? Or how did you load and unload the truck with the same? :D

[@gilchrist31]

Nice work. Great videos you post. Thank you.

[@nicolaschampagne8988]

nice video but too much snow for me 🤣 in canada it's all melted thankfully

[@bobjoncas2814]

lookin' good ,nice work..

[@bwillan]

Is your conveyor truck one of those luggage loading vehicles for an airplane?

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

That's correct, did a previous video about that

[@CrowsBrother]

Great video as always ! 🙂

[@1herbert100]

Great job and it shows your skill at problem solving.

[@jmcintoshcoast]

Nice work! I'm glad I found your channel. Subscribed. Thanks for the interesting content.

[@TheGrimReaper1]

As others have said and if i may reiterate, keep your hands away from that pusher thing when it’s moving or use a stick with a claw on the end to relocate the logs. Alternatively, use the hand (for moving the logs)that you wont miss so much if it gets mangled, it would be such a shame and totally avoidable. Incidentally what contingency plan have you in place if an accident does occur and your arm or hand does get crushed, ie have you a handy tourniquet that you can put in place by yourself, also have you the local emergency number on speed dial or on voice recognition. You also need to have your telephone and bandages etc easily accessible on a stand or table near to hand . I like your videos very much so just keep your hands out when the beast is in motion. end of lecture. I hope you don’t mind me saying so. Kind regards to you and your family from England .

[@jackieharvey2694]

It looks like your cutting Beech for your firewood good choice. Would love a load of that firewood.

[@MFG333]

Great videos. Interesting. Why not capture the sawdust and make wood pellets. It's good fuel

[@maudepotvin8660]

It's a misconception to think engine consume less fuel at low idle, they actually consume much more at idle. Run them at a higher rpm to get a better fuel consumption ! 1200 rpm is great ! Same goes for your hydraulics, pump are made to work at higher rpm. Great setup !!!

[@hypercube33]

I feel like the splitter needs a spring V area around it - so the heavier logs push the V further open so its always centered for a cut - maybe tie it into a floating horizontal blade so that is always center (I know in the last video you took that off) and it'd save a lot of hassle

[@JEmory]

Love your videos and how you both design and test your improvements. Your skills are off the charts. Very cool. I have no business offering you a better idea, but could you put multiple splitting blades instead of (1) in a radiating or cross pattern to eliminate re-handling a piece of wood? Like it would split a piece into +4 pieces in one push?

[@TM-gs4jy]

He does do this at the end of the video 😃

[@timnash6870]

TIM from CANADA🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 have you ever thought of making some sort of a V wedged table so when you are searching firewood, after cutting, it will go on the table and then on to your conveyor belt your system now it seems like your firewood is falling off the side.. even just putting some sort of a straight bar with a plate on the side so your wood does not fall off just noticing this when you are cutting your wood after it is fallen onto your conveyor belt, if you had some sort of a system that had a plate with the street bar to conceal the wood from not falling off and onto the ground

[@arjanvogel6444]

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys.

[@Igor999x]

Make a firewood splitter in the shape of a star or something like this, so wood will be cut into 5-8 pieces at once. 😀

[@nigel1964]

Crikey a lot of hard work hope the reward is good. At one point I thought you had been at it so long you had aged 😅

[@AW-Services]

Nice project, I'm just concerned with the amount of hand positioning and fatigue with your hand in the cutting throat

[@BarnStangz]

I always enjoy your videos! I wish here where I lived we had easy wood to split, it's mostly hardwoods. That birch looks pretty easy to split which is very nice. How much land do you have over there?

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Thanks, would be fun too try splitting hardwood sometime, birch sure is easy!

[@Alan_Hans__]

Very nice. Hopefully this was filmed a few months ago and you're not still covered in snow.

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Most of the snow is melted, waiting for summer now!

[@cditzler6313]

subbed on crusher build I hope you will get more videos of it in action one of my all time favorite sounds of it crushing stones really enjoy same with log splitting too

[@SpencerRyllSmith]

Having your hand guiding the wood as it splits seems like it would be a great way to lose focus for 1 second and lose your hand...

[@PhilKawasaki]

Easy solution for that is to have to smaller rams that push down from either side with a pad that centralise the wood before the blade and limit the 2 pads do they travel either side of the blade. Have them so they both have same flow rate and nothing too strong just enough to apply pressure equally to either side of the log, timing wise they would extend as the ram moves forward and retract on the reverse stroke. Fixture wise have brackets extending up from the lower of the ram and about 3-4 inches forward from the saw blade. Allowing the saw not to contact the pads in the fully retraced position. you could also run 2 smaller rams under the main ram with a set size grate to allow the correct size to pass the secondary blade and go straight to the belt while the larger logs get caught and cut again while you proceed to start your first cut! The 2 secondary blades can be very minimal!

[@rondenman2032]

Love it , beautiful job!

[@vapapae7333]

If you made a spacer that slid the sides so when the log is dropped you wouldn't have to keep putting your hand in danger in front of the wedge could just slide it back off for bigger logs but seems like most of the logs you have to manually move log to meet wedge in the middle.

[@nigelphillips9426]

I've picked up a hand off a crosscut bench fortunately they were able to reattache it no joke stay safe

[@spiderdad00]

Great video awesome machine

[@johnlaforte700]

Great job and genius ideas. 👍👍😊

[@davidepool5884]

I was just going to suggest that you should weld deflectors on the sides of the splitter end of your firewood processor to direct the firewood onto the conveyor and keep it from falling off. That’s going to save you a lot of extra work over time.

[@seesafar9912]

I appreciate the videos, please use caution and be safe.

[@mattiloponen9791]

Your firewood processor is really good, did you build it all by yourself or is it a kit, instructions to build anywhere available? That type machine is here in Finland unknown, only seen videos, is that sold there in Sweden by any brand?

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Its built from the ground, there is more info in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6HIfoKomdaGY5Y. I don't know of anyone in Europe that sells anything like this

[@sitrucpmek1]

Hey M…. Just saw this video. Halverson Wood Products Co. located in Pequot Lakes, MN makes a very simular splitter and sells them throughout the USA. I have one, works very well.

[@Dradski1982]

I have never heated a home with firewood, aproximately how long would that truckload last you?

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Not sure, just installed a fireplace at my home. Remind me to answer that in one year.

[@BentTreeFarmPa]

I'd buy a load from you, but the delivery charge would probably be a little expensive!!! Very nice job.

[@jackieharvey2694]

You need a cross member on the slicing blade or even two for thicker wood.

[@RobToGame]

Try making an asterisk shaped wedge might help with all sized logs getting split into more even pieces.

[@SmoothDogGaming]

Isn't the belt loader an old diesel? I wonder if it would run on a mixture of used cooking oil. Might be a good idea to keep costs down. Especially with fuel costs nowadays. I don't know if it would even run on pure oil in your conditions, seeing as the oil might freeze with how cold it is. lol

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

I think it's better to put a electric pump on it in that case

[@whitman_9945]

Have you ever heard of a masonry stove? (Also called a Russian Stove) It is basically a rocket stove mass heater, but on another level and you get the nice looking fireplace. Instead of the flu gases going straight up, you go up and down, in a maze type exhaust, with a big mass of brick and masonry to soak up the heat along the way, it consumes all the smoke and the outgoing flu gas temperatures are way lower, utilizing and capturing a lot more of the heat produced by the fire. The idea is to have a hot and fast fire, but absorb it all in the brick and masonry, then it radiates it at a nice consistent temperature long after the fire goes out. Uses way less wood, the heat is better and the heat can last up to 12 hours plus, from one solid fire. Buying a masonry stove kit can be expensive, but if you do the masonry work yourself with local brick and mortar, you could do it pretty cheap. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4i4kIuOoLGjmMU

[@Gus1966-c9o]

That sounds fascinating, I’m gonna go look that up .

[@ianvandyck2146]

dont know if anyone here in the comment has said it. maybe collect the sawdust to press it into pellets ? overall its a nice setup you guys got there ! :)

[@heartland96a]

Would you take the sawdust waste and put it thru a wood pellet mill to make something from it rather than it going to waste or do you have another use ?

[@kerryburke3864]

Would it be worth your while installing or creating and installing a multi point knife so it does several splits at once and you do not have to keep resplitting the log after the cut. Cheers.

[@MegaKnutten]

tackar, alltid kul då du laddar upp en video😀

[@fricknjeep]

hi there well done john

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Hello, thanks!

[@TheKrololo]

My advice is to put some kind of adjustable pieces of metal so you could adjust them depending on the thickness of wood, was worried for your hands all the time

[@TheKrololo]

or maybe make them somehow springloaded

[@bobk9321]

I like log splitters for one thing. Splitting that nasty ones. On this one I like the way it cuts the rounds, but on a lot of the wood I saw at first anyways, I can split it faster, and more uniformly with a splitting axe and an old tire.

[@villageearthwright]

what will you do with all the skinny pole wood that you did not make firewood out of? Also, it looks like your grapple is direct plumbed to the machine, that means you can't rotate fully right?

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Most of it will be made to wood chips. That's correct, been many times where i almost broke the hose due to that. But its on my todo list to mount it to the tiltrotators swivel

[@williamotto2366]

I’d bet the unstacked pallets would weigh pretty close to the stacked.

[@greatstomp]

Öppning forward to the video on the new crushing site!

[@JaneWillow12]

Next modification: foot pedal switch for the splitter ram ...so you can have both hands free

[@luddel4747]

Grym video! Undrar om du skulle kunna bygga någon självcentrerande mekanism för att slippa passa in kubbarna varje gång. Typ som en V-vagga med några slappa tryckfjädrar nära infästningarna/gångjärnen. Med en smal kubbe lägger den sig i mitten. Med en störrre, tyngre kubbe väger den ner sidoplattorna och når botten ändå, fast den centreras.

[@genegustafson1665]

Give you a heads up on piling firewood bark up as the rain will run off the wood and not soak into the wood. Learn from my uncle.

[@richardjameswinter7642]

Maybe you did this, still near the beginning, but what about welding two pieces of metal at an angle live a bottomless V onto the pusher to center the wood whilst splitting to save you from having to center it per hand?

[@artisansportsman8950]

Loving your channel

[@cjm6271]

Was I the only one weirded out when the machine actually helped make its own new appendage? Isaac Asimov called-- he wants his firewood processor back😂