Bronlin’s Square Baler Chunker

[Bronlin (Bronlin Klassen)]

Johan, here is the link to @BillSchiller chunker thread. That is were I saw that straight edge on the last couple inches.

Bill S chunker

The cutter drum is ready for action. I first cut about 45 degrees off of the inside of the drum until the outside edge was sharp. I then took another sweep on the inside to lesson the wedge effect. Good or bad, I don’t know. What I do know is I watched many chunker videos and all of Wayne’s videos (a few times each). As far as ease of cutting, his wins. So I think reducing that angle should make this more effortless. I also left the last few inches flat and unsharpened. <—not a word but is now. …

I was leaning towards doing the serrated edge. Then welding some flat steel on with the same profile as the blade just like @Chris did.

Chris' Baler Chunker

Added some bracing to the anvil. These triangle gussets are just angle iron cut on compound angles. [image] Added a workrest and cut the notch for the splitter head: [image] Added a workrest surface, guard, and wear plate: [image] And made the groove that the cutter rides in: [image]

If the grove is tight fitting to the blade that should help a lot with those wood fibres too.