It's taken a bit to sort through my photo album - I've got a bad habit of downloading all the pictures off the camera with the intent to sort them later, and never actually sorting them. But!
The heart of the beast is a 5.5hp Honda. It drives a 1" jackshaft (used to be smaller but somehow it got bent) which in turn drives both the wheel and the conveyor. The main belt has a spring-loaded tightener, but the wheel's belt drive we have on a lever so it can be disengaged independently.
Other side. You can see the conveyor belt tightener.
Splitting platform, kill switch easy to get at. Used to have to run to the other side of the thing when something got stuck before a belt started smoking.
Rebuilt the conveyor in the fall. The plywood had seen better days and the metal chain guide had been snagged by the chain so many times it wasn't doing any good anymore. Carved out a channel and mounted in a wood one, also set one up on the bottom to keep the chain from hanging down and snagging on the frame. Nylon strips keep the chain in its channel as it enters the return.
Finished product. The side rails are to help keep the stubborn pieces from sitting in one place and spinning in a circle every time a chain tooth goes past.
Did I mention the whole thing is portable?
We've modified a bunch of other things to make life easier. Dropped the bucket off the trackhoe and built a rig to hold a grapple.
While it's used to throw logs around the yard, it's doubles as our forklift for handling pallets of bundled wood. Third of a cord at a time.
But before you can move the pallet, you have to wrap it, and running around it three times isn't any fun. Let's make a turntable!
The trackhoe also has a side job as a building mover.
The building moved - and a better shot of the turntable. It's electric - the generator isn't sitting on top of it anymore, though.
