# Wood supply
**URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 29, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220 "2012-02-29T12:43:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 158
### Author:  [@ForbiddenTuna](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/ForbiddenTuna)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3147 "2022-10-07T19:02:15Z")
Going to flesh this out a bit more. Found that Fiskars sells a geared lopper that cuts up to 2", which I think is the perfect size for billets of wood. The little loppers can go back to harvesting branches.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS1fw7EtH3s)
This, and a little ramp screwed to the saw horse to aim the chunks into a bucket I think will be a good little backup setup.
---
### Author:  [@FruitvaleFarmer](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/FruitvaleFarmer)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3148 "2022-10-07T20:33:46Z")
Nifty lopping shears, but a really wide swing of the handles. If I’m understanding his comment, he suggests sharpening on the flat (non-bevel) side of the blade. That’s probably not a good idea with bypass cutters. Unless you’re flat-lapping to restore a blade someone sharpened on the flat side 🙂
---
### Author:  [@ForbiddenTuna](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/ForbiddenTuna)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3149 "2022-10-07T21:49:05Z")
Oh I’m not going to modify the shears.
Got it after work and it’s pretty good once it’s strapped down to a sawhorse.
I’m lopping 2" dry coppiced trees, it’ll do better with fresh stuff I think.
---
### Author:  [@Norman89](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Norman89)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 12:56am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3150 "2022-10-08T00:56:45Z")
Might sound stupid but what do you think about a small electric motor something real low rpm with a eccentric and a connecting rod to power the handle so you just feed material? Uber low buck but still faster then man powering the loppers
---
### Author:  [@ForbiddenTuna](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/ForbiddenTuna)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 1:05am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3151 "2022-10-08T01:05:08Z")
Might work, I think CNCMACHININGISFUN has a setup like that, but he’s using it to split the grain of 2x4 blocks. With 2" wood it’s taking a bit of work but I’ve only tried dry branches.
I could use a Scotch Yoke or something on a big flywheel if I had one.
Edit: I misremembered, CNC uses a homemade slicer for the blocks, rotary style.
I’m not giving up on the disc chunker this is just a standby and a way I can help friends get into gasification.
---
### Author:  [@Wayne](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Wayne)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3152 "2022-10-10T22:27:42Z")
Today wife and I took down a few little cull trees . They
are not fit for anything except burning and that is what I plan on doing 😀
---
### Author:  [@kmrland](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/kmrland)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 2:58am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3153 "2022-10-11T02:58:47Z")
Thats a fast chunker, will it chunk any green hard wood or just soft wood and what the biggest wood it cuts THANKS for posting, thats a much faster method than are one at a time chunkers, And what type of chunkers are these called, can they be bought, or cheaper and stronger too build my own, THANKS.
---
### Author:  [@ForbiddenTuna](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/ForbiddenTuna)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 3:00am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3154 "2022-10-11T03:00:07Z")
It’s called a rebak, and there’s a company in the US that sells them but I think the biggest pieces they can cut here is about 2" diameter.
---
### Author:  [@kmrland](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/kmrland)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 3:03am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3155 "2022-10-11T03:03:53Z")
OK thanks, the vidio looked more like 3" branches, maybe he found a heavier duty one. Looks like worth makeing one for branch chunk time savings, when time permits.
---
### Author:  [@ForbiddenTuna](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/ForbiddenTuna)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 3:07am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3156 "2022-10-11T03:07:58Z")
JO made his own, I think he has a post about it somewhere.
They definitely are made for chomping green wood.
---
### Author:  [@kmrland](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/kmrland)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 3:11am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3157 "2022-10-11T03:11:26Z")
OK thanks cody ,i will have too check with him later,about the exact design details.
---
### Author:  [@Norman89](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Norman89)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 3:46am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3158 "2022-10-11T03:46:26Z")
[JO´s Rebak Chunker](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/jo-s-rebak-chunker/1664) have fun reading, I have been through his build several times now, just trying to not get distracted from my own builds before I jump into another one like his 😀
---
### Author:  [@JO\_Olsson](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/JO_Olsson)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 7:05am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3159 "2022-10-11T07:05:42Z")
> [@kmrland](#):
>
> design details.
Here you go Kevin. Plenty rebaks on Youtube, but this one shows in detail without guards and stuff.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmCWYxd4xYA)
---
### Author:  [@JO\_Olsson](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/JO_Olsson)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3160 "2022-10-11T16:06:46Z")
Just another random load of wood. No 11 this fall. Another half a dussin loads to go before snow.
About a gallon saved for each load keeping the Fergie parked.
Edit: Not to mention gym ticket savings 😄
---
### Author:  [@JocundJake](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/JocundJake)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3161 "2022-10-11T22:13:30Z")
Wayne is that sweet gum?
ive got about 3 dump truck loads of sweet gum firewood logs that need processed.
---
### Author:  [@Wayne](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Wayne)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3162 "2022-10-11T22:43:45Z")
Hey Jakob .
Might be a piece or two sweet gum . I don’t like it because it is so hard to split .
---
### Author:  [@d100f](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/d100f)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3163 "2022-10-11T23:19:35Z")
Just a thought that might help , if you look or come across plastic recycling machines they can easily be used for this type of work , search granulators or pelletiser’s the bases for these machines could easily be converted i think .
I like the simplicity of this one ,
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WiShUSggas)
Dave
---
### Author:  [@sbowman](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/sbowman)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3164 "2022-10-11T23:49:41Z")
> [@JocundJake](#):
>
> 3 dump truck loads of sweet gum
Jakob,
You have my sympathies. I’m sure you have better processing equipment than I have. I thanked the guy from my church who gave me a trailer load of sweet gum a few years ago. After I finished splitting it, I was thinking, “Don’t do me any more favors.” It actually burns very well. I started making charcoal in my stove like Dave and Brian do while burning that sweet gum, and I’m currently using that in the Toyota. Sweet gum makes good charcoal.
---
### Author:  [@JocundJake](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/JocundJake)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3165 "2022-10-12T12:02:57Z")
no you probably have better equipment than I. I have a chainsaw and a splitting maul. although most of this is small enough to not need split.
---
### Author:  [@r\_wesseling](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/r_wesseling)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 12:21am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220/3166 "2022-10-13T00:21:53Z")
A friend gave me this saw. Said the vibrations hurt his wrists. I adjusted the mixture screws so it runs good. It cuts good. I didn’t ask a lot of questions. You don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, you know. My only experience was with a Stihl 240, back in the 1970s. Is there anything I should know about this saw?
[Previous page](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220.md?page=157)
[Next page](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220.md?page=159)