Need to slow down PTO rpm

[texasranger556]

The machine you linked is shearing more than cutting like a traditional saw. There's no sawdust. Draw a picture of what you're thinking to give us a better idea of what you want. Like others have said 60 RPM is quite low for a saw.

 

[searcyfarms]

a hydraulic shear would do the same and less dangerous - just use hydraulics/pump run the shear like a splitter

 

[4570Man]

I’d build a good circular saw instead. It wouldn’t have any chance of binding and swinging sticks and would handle bigger stuff. Balfor Circular Saw - PTO driven circular saw - YouTube

 

[Sawyer Rob]

There's quite a few of machines that do the same thing all over Europe... They burn small wood like that...

I don't see it as too dangerous, what I do see, is our society over here becoming afraid of just about EVERYTHING, and wanting some one (read government) to protect them at every minute, from themselves!!

I wouldn't be afraid to run that one bit!!

Build it if you want one and use a used car or truck transmission to slow the pto down!

SR

 

[CalG]

Do a search on "Rebak", Many resourceful machines are made by real people that burn fuel wood .

For the smaller chunks , I would like to see the stoves that burn them.

I would use a truck differential (4:1) and throttle back the tractor engine rather than try for a 10:1 reduction.

Rebak wood fuel - Google Search

Don't let the "danger police" get in your head, they get in their cars every day and drive to the grocery. MUCH more risk there, but they just accept it as part of life. Just like rebak chunkers in Poland.

R-4 rębak MECHANIZM TNĄCY bez osłon POLSKA FABRYKA - YouTube

 

[marcelPL]

Do a search on "Rebak", Many resourceful machines are made by real people that burn fuel wood .

For the smaller chunks , I would like to see the stoves that burn them.

I would use a truck differential (4:1) and throttle back the tractor engine rather than try for a 10:1 reduction.

Rebak wood fuel - Google Search

Don't let the "danger police" get in your head, they get in their cars every day and drive to the grocery. MUCH more risk there, but they just accept it as part of life. Just like rebak chunkers in Poland.

R-4 rębak MECHANIZM TNĄCY bez osłon POLSKA FABRYKA - YouTube

Thanks (everybody), i know about this 'Rębak', i have one like the one in the last movie. Problem is that my little Iseki is too light. But i see that it runs at incredible speed. So maybe i should have another look at it. Last time i tried it, it did not take more than 3 cm, anything bigger would shake the tractor so much, that it got stuck every time.

I will try to create some drawing about what i want to achieve, but it can take a few days. Busy with taking those little trees from the land

Thanks for all tips, directions, and thoughts. Appreciate it!

M.

 

[ddbackhoe]

Build it if you want one and use a used car or truck transmission to slow the pto down!

SR

Thats a very good suggestion

 

[ddbackhoe]

Thanks (everybody), i know about this 'Rębak', i have one like the one in the last movie. Problem is that my little Iseki is too light. But i see that it runs at incredible speed. So maybe i should have another look at it. Last time i tried it, it did not take more than 3 cm, anything bigger would shake the tractor so much, that it got stuck every time.

I will try to create some drawing about what i want to achieve, but it can take a few days. Busy with taking those little trees from the land

Thanks for all tips, directions, and thoughts. Appreciate it!

M.

Take a look on youtube for cordwood saws.
Vermont Woodsman Cordwood Saw

But like Kenny G suggested, a plain old table saw might be just right too.

 

[tookielee]

yours doesn't have the 3 speed PTO? My Bolens G152 did, I thought they were the same

 

[marcelPL]

yours doesn't have the 3 speed PTO? My Bolens G152 did, I thought they were the same

Yes it has. Minimum speed = 472 rpm. Too much for what i had in mind. For the rest i truly love this machine

 

[searcyfarms]

how many of us old timers used a Buzz Saw on the front of a tractor, that is just as dangerous - u have a giant blade to get butchered with, not to mention large pulleys and a belt that will jump out and grab ahold of you at any moment and grind u up like wood pulp - i agree its dangerous but no more dangerous than yanking out stalks in a corn picker either

 

[4570Man]

how many of us old timers used a Buzz Saw on the front of a tractor, that is just as dangerous - u have a giant blade to get butchered with, not to mention large pulleys and a belt that will jump out and grab ahold of you at any moment and grind u up like wood pulp - i agree its dangerous but no more dangerous than yanking out stalks in a corn picker either

A buzz saw could be as safe as any other alternative for cutting wood. See the video I linked in post 23. Just because the old school ones have an unshielded flat belt at one end and a unshielded 30” blade at the other end doesn’t mean they all have to be that way.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

how many of us old timers used a Buzz Saw on the front of a tractor, that is just as dangerous - u have a giant blade to get butchered with, not to mention large pulleys and a belt that will jump out and grab ahold of you at any moment and grind u up like wood pulp - i agree its dangerous but no more dangerous than yanking out stalks in a corn picker either

I have a couple of them...

SR

 

[searcyfarms]

A buzz saw could be as safe as any other alternative for cutting wood. See the video I linked in post 23. Just because the old school ones have an unshielded flat belt at one end and a unshielded 30” blade at the other end doesn’t mean they all have to be that way.

well of course we could all make a better mouse trap - add protection and anything used stupidly will get you into trouble - i took a chainsaw to my leg once upon a time and 100+ stitches later good as new !!!! so yea anything is dangerous some just more than others

 

[searcyfarms]

I have a couple of them...

SR

cool rob, looks like you have a sawmill around somewhere too with the sawn off live edges of some of those scraps you are chopping up ;-)

 

[Sawyer Rob]

The sawmill head is hiding under that blue tarp...

Here's the second buzz rig,

SR

 

[4570Man]

well of course we could all make a better mouse trap - add protection and anything used stupidly will get you into trouble - i took a chainsaw to my leg once upon a time and 100+ stitches later good as new !!!! so yea anything is dangerous some just more than others

Anything that cuts wood is inherently dangerous. Some things more than others.

 

[Shaneard]

how many of us old timers used a Buzz Saw on the front of a tractor, that is just as dangerous - u have a giant blade to get butchered with, not to mention large pulleys and a belt that will jump out and grab ahold of you at any moment and grind u up like wood pulp - i agree its dangerous but no more dangerous than yanking out stalks in a corn picker either

Most people with common sense turn the picker off before trying to get the stalks out BUT that's why there are yellow safety stickers all over everything these days, common sense cant be bought or taught.

Years ago when I was in the volunteer FD near the house a guy got his leg hung a corn picker and had to have it amputated. Fast forward some years later he was round baling hay and somehow got off the tractor with the baler still running and the tractor started to roll, he went after it and his leg came off and he got caught in the baler. He didn't survive, I remember it like it was yesterday and it's been 20 years.

 

[searcyfarms]

Most people with common sense turn the picker off before trying to get the stalks out BUT that's why there are yellow safety stickers all over everything these days, common sense cant be bought or taught.

Years ago when I was in the volunteer FD near the house a guy got his leg hung a corn picker and had to have it amputated. Fast forward some years later he was round baling hay and somehow got off the tractor with the baler still running and the tractor started to roll, he went after it and his leg came off and he got caught in the baler. He didn't survive, I remember it like it was yesterday and it's been 20 years.

yea we have all made those little mistakes that cost us something in the course of life, when it hits close to home its even worse - we were at my father in laws over Cmas in SD some years ago - 20ish, neighbor lady called said her husband didnt come back from grinding corn this morning it was afternoon, asked if my FIL would go check on him since he knew where he wintered his cattle and fed them and she was in poor health and couldnt get out or not be able to help him.

Glad i didnt go along...........FIL went and found tractor still running grinding feed and what was left of neighbor was wrapped around pto/tongue of grinder.

sad anytime but with friends/neighbors/family you just dont forget that stuff

we can all speculate what happened but we had all done it to some degree - i still occassionally cut my finger with the pocket knife or stab myself prying with a screwdriver and knew it was going to happen

 

[Industrial Toys]

All because a chainsaw is just so inefficient. Not to mention noisy and a pain to oil and fuel.