Poor Man's wood clam

[J5 Bombardier]

Rigged up a temporary boom on our wood splitter, until a wood clam gets finished. It worked pretty good hoisting some old dead spruce onto the table, I'm getting to old for those 42in blocks !
J5 Bombardier

 

[Snowcat Operations]

Thats a sweet setup! How many cords do you get in a day with that setup?

 

[J5 Bombardier]

I like to set it up as a family outing, two or three loads on a weekend, lunch at the camp. I keep it fun that way my two young lads haven't figured out its actually work!
J5 Bombardier

 

[pixie]

Great idea

They must have been huge !!

I'll be looking forward to seeing the next version of the boom and clam.

What do you use to run the splitter ? Your tractor ?

 

[fogtender]

Great idea

They must have been huge !!

I'll be looking forward to seeing the next version of the boom and clam.

What do you use to run the splitter ? Your tractor ?

Looks like it has an engine on the spliter (Looks like the top of a Briggs Vangard engine at that) with a gas tank by the boom, pretty neat setup...

 

[J5 Bombardier]

The splitter is run off my J5, I'm running a 16 gallon pump on the end of the crankshaft . I didn't intend to use it for this but it works good, you can see the hydraulic lines hanging off the boom and running under the splitter.
Thanks for the replys J5 Bombardier

 

[fogtender]

The splitter is run off my J5, I'm running a 16 gallon pump on the end of the crankshaft . I didn't intend to use it for this but it works good, you can see the hydraulic lines hanging off the boom and running under the splitter.
Thanks for the replys J5 Bombardier

Looks like quite the operation! Did you build it from scratch?

 

[jack59]

Great. I love it!

 

[REDRUM]

Killer set up J5B.

 

[J5 Bombardier]

Fogtender
Yes the splitter was made from scratch, my neighbor and I both have outdoor furnaces and we like to load them with 42 in lengths. We cobbled it up with a lot of spare parts we had and maybe spent a 1000.00 bucks in the end.
What's the temperature in Alaska? J5 Bombardier

 

[Mainer]

Fogtender
... my neighbor and I both have outdoor furnaces and we like to load them with 42 in lengths.

Outdoor furnaces! Sorry guys, I had to bite on an off-snowcat topic (well, it's outdoorsy and wintery so I'll rationalize the momentary fox-hole). That's the ticket! I've been researching these for a while and have decided on the Greenwood given the wickedly hot temp that basically incinerates every minutia of smoke/creosote/waste so you have a relatively smokeless burn. Here's a list of manufacturers that are the big players out there so if anyone else is doing research you can go from these. Some pros and cons to each but...

http://www.greenwoodfurnace.com/Manufacturers.htm

I haven't bought yet but will. Going to go pretty beefy so I can power a radiant floor in the 'to-be' workshop. There's are a couple of downsides to these outdoor furnaces but nothing that can't easily be dealt with such as anti-freezing the boiler water so you go away for a couple weeks when no one is there to fill the fire... and also have a backup furnace. Some have dual wood-propane as well. Other than those two things they simply kick ass. I saw one guy that heated his house and his outdoor pool in the winter with wood from his land...practically free for energy consumption once you get past the initial investment.

 

[fogtender]

Fogtender
Yes the splitter was made from scratch, my neighbor and I both have outdoor furnaces and we like to load them with 42 in lengths. We cobbled it up with a lot of spare parts we had and maybe spent a 1000.00 bucks in the end.
What's the temperature in Alaska? J5 Bombardier

Well it jumped up to about 35 yesterday, then 28 this morning, -6 now and suppose to be -30 tomorrow.... going down on us....

That is a good deal for you then, there is a bunch of people that have those outdoor furnaces and they seem to be doing pretty good. I wonder if they have them that can use coal. There is a big coal mine south of here, not very good quality like they have in Ohio/Kentucky type coal, but burnable. Would save on a lot of logging.

The biggest thing that kills us in Alaska, is the freight to get them here. Would be better off just building a Furnace here out of cinderblock with steel boiler/burner inside filled with sand... That would hold the heat with water tubes running though it, not to mention could be had for about a grand or so...hummmm.... At three dollars + something a gal for heating oil, that may be an option for this next summer...

 

[ALLEN PARSONS]

What a great little rig you have there J5B.

 

[longbed454]

Awesome set up Great job!!!!!!

 

[bighorn]

my friend has one that runs on propane when it is out of wood
really nice

 

[Snowtrac Nome]

Well it jumped up to about 35 yesterday, then 28 this morning, -6 now and suppose to be -30 tomorrow.... going down on us....

That is a good deal for you then, there is a bunch of people that have those outdoor furnaces and they seem to be doing pretty good. I wonder if they have them that can use coal. There is a big coal mine south of here, not very good quality like they have in Ohio/Kentucky type coal, but burnable. Would save on a lot of logging.

The biggest thing that kills us in Alaska, is the freight to get them here. Would be better off just building a Furnace here out of cinderblock with steel boiler/burner inside filled with sand... That would hold the heat with water tubes running though it, not to mention could be had for about a grand or so...hummmm.... At three dollars + something a gal for heating oil, that may be an option for this next summer...

it was -20 here on the west coast in nome might be colder tomorrwthan friday might warm up a bit.

 

[alaska120]

There's no place like Nome...Well, Foggy is about 20 miles from me. I had -28 and was wondering what he was talking about. Then I noticed his post is from a year ago. Nicer now though. 'bout -15. Light snow...you know, that 'fluff' dust we get when its below 0? Useless on the trails!