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farmerlund

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Good afternoon folks. I was thinking abut building some sort of fire wood cutter attachment for my loader. I have been looking around for a hydraulic chainsaw. I want one with a pivot that I could run with a little hyd cylinder. something around a 30" bar would be nice.
Anybody have a source for this setup? Used would be fine to. not much logging stuff in North Dakota to pick over. LOL.

Thanks
 

Junkyard

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One off of a slasher would do the trick. I know of one for sale....just haven’t gotten up there to get it!
 

Plebeian

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Halverson grapple saw for wheel loader. harvester saw bar 29.5 inch

https://halversonwoodproducts.com/content/UPDATED SPECS 120-140B-GRAPPLE-Inverted Splitter.pdf



Plenty of firewood type processors that have had the designs etc signed off by engineers etc.
Halverson and a few others are fairly basic. Can be put on an excavator etc
skid-steer
tractor
mini-excavator

or build a super woodsplitter - no harvester bar saw and chain necessary. Hydraulic ram power and sharp steel
 
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Ronsii

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I've seen some stanley's and other more name brands on ebay go for 4-6 hundred... but then you'd still have to make a mount and swivel plus add hydraulics.... on the other hand I know a guy that removed one from a pull through delimber cause it made the unit to high for the way he was transporting it and he never used the headsaw feature anyways.... I would suspect there are quite a few units like that around that guys have removed the headsaw unit.... it had at least a 26 inch bar running 404 I think.... had less than a 3 second cycle time cutting max diameter with the 4 cylinder deere powerplant under the hood :)
 

farmerlund

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Would love a used dangle head. Have you been to ND? No used logging equipment with in 500 miles. LOL.
Plus most trees here are not laser straight. Can you cut a oak or ash tree with one?
 

Hallback

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Yes, you can use one with hardwoods. 500 miles is peanuts compared to the headaches of building, tearing apart, building & rebuilding. You would have 500 cord bucked by then.
 
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