I broke the piece open checked the center. Same 0.0 moisture reading. It was a really hot day. Much cooler yesterday and today. Right now at 02:00 pm. 95°f in the shade and sipping iced tea. Life is good.
Bob
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So much for resting any more long naps, i got some wood lined up in my trailer from sawmill, and moved chunker in the shade out back, got too get some smile fuel, kirbing gas money chunked up too get nice and dry before winter cool weather returns. perfect chunking slabs from this saw mill and its somwhat hard wood.
Here a motor that would be big enough too keep up with hard wood 2 by 3 " Probley then
THAT 50 bucks worth of hard wood probley get me 1200 miles around with a v8 dakota work truck. That many miles on gasoline would cost 460.00$ at today gas prices. save 1200.00 a mounth average miles driven ? ONLY IF I CAN GET MINE TOO IDLE LIKE WAYNE KEITHS DODGE RAM V10.
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Don’t feel too bad Kevin
There are a few people who can get them to idle like that but not to many.
I certainly can’t, they have a gift at it that I don’t have.
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Looking good Marus- i need a motor for my bailer gear box chunker, what would you say is minimum size gas engine , for chunking wood-- my electric motor aint cutting the mustard. Thanks for the truck axel chunker vidio, looks good ,and like you chunked up about 150 bucks worth of gasoline in wood chunks MPG.In an hour.
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Hard for me to say, this is a 6hp motor and it doesn’t run perfectly with this hodge podge propane setup. I’m working on rounding up a new carburetor for it to see if the governor can compensate better for heavy loads on big pieces. If so that may be the better option and show that a little extra power wouldn’t hurt. If I were to do this again I think I would pick up a cheap riding mower with a clutch system and say 10-18hp and utilize that system. Little extra power, easy to get belts, clutch built in vs my direct drive. If I can ever find the parts I plan to convert this one to hydraulic drive from a pto on the truck, so truck at idle on woodgas then powers the chunker. Excess power, but more versatile
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Thanks marcus, it sounded ike about a 5 hp motor, and i noticed you had too wait a few times too get the mass full speed while cutting hard wood ? or it looked like maybe.I got this about 20 hp toro motor, if i can get it up and running again, sitting several years, think i better go closer too 18 hp than smaller, i can allways run on charco wood mix.
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That looks identical to some of the Kohler engines I have been around, I wouldn’t hesitate to use that on a chunker!
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That combination is working great.
97 deg here today so I hope you were chunking early
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I was hoping to do some more but it’s up to 96 right now, and no shade to work in!
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interesting chunker…
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Tone, this is preety much the same desigh as Me Wayne and many others use. Except instead of a mechanical feeder Wayne uses gravity. Works great, me and JO have had fed it personaly 
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The Finn’s are really in to building any kind of wood-processors, when i built my axle chunker i got the idea from a build in Finland, youtube video, i believed that was the first axle chunker, i had’nt seen anything like it before.
Later i discovered videos showing Wayne was first, he should have patented the axle-chunker process 
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Pet peeve. Once you have watched one branch chunked and go up the conveyor then why not show some details of the gearing and cutter head?
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Tom, Google Superpilke and you will find out. Ready for sale chunker.
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The silo cages work great for drying the wood. Just cove with a tarp and wood.
Bob
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Looks close too the same as our axel gear box chunkers, though are chunkers as the wheel rotates, it eases some of the braking off action. Thats one heavy duty chunker though if a deal was good, i would use it, though we like are chunks not much smaller than a golf ball. other than a few smaller pieces. the bigger pieces help keep the wood from bridging gravity fall wood chunks.
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Filling wood buckets .
Each bucket is worth almost as much as a gallon of gasoline and I have 40 that I fill 
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Miles and smiles is all I see 
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Looks good way too transport the wood chunks, i was thinking maybe drill some 1/2" holes in the buckets, then if there is a little extra moisture in a bucket,it would dry out in the bucket on my buckets.?
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