shaving mill

[tboomz]

yeah, basically I'm interested in the longggg shavings. but not like the excelsior that you find in packaging - too stringy. I figure that a rotary head will give something akin to sawdust shavings. I've walked on both types and the long shavings tend to feel "springier". I can see why horse folk prefer it. I got a dump truck load of stable bedding once and I like how it seems to compost better.

The one salsco i saw at a state fair put out short shavings. I was trying to figure how thin a blade to fix underneath , whether to have two in place to cut on both strokes, and would it work better shaving at an angle instead of perpendicular to log.

and rather than tearing the baler apart, just remove pickup reel and rake.

 

[Reg]

yeah, basically I'm interested in the longggg shavings. but not like the excelsior that you find in packaging - too stringy. I figure that a rotary head will give something akin to sawdust shavings. I've walked on both types and the long shavings tend to feel "springier". I can see why horse folk prefer it. I got a dump truck load of stable bedding once and I like how it seems to compost better.

The one salsco i saw at a state fair put out short shavings. I was trying to figure how thin a blade to fix underneath , whether to have two in place to cut on both strokes, and would it work better shaving at an angle instead of perpendicular to log.

and rather than tearing the baler apart, just remove pickup reel and rake.

I think angled fixed blades maybe a couple of inches wide would peel off what you want.
You would need maybe 6 to 8 of them according to the width of what you feed.
Of course the block would tend towards one side, so the blades on that side would get the most wear.
You could probably figure out a cutter bar to mount the blades on and once built making another one for the reverse direction would likely be no harder.