Nice little grinder

[Burnham]

Takes care of business, it would appear . Part of a commercial thinning sale with an associated bio-fuels project, going to a power generation station the Warm Springs Tribes are putting on-line.

Maybe this is what Lumberjack is in the market for, eh?

 

[Burnham]

Did I mention how much I hate this photo attachment program? No? Well, I do.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Quite the beast... No peace in the forest when that runs..

 

[TheTreeWiseMen]

Quite the beast... No peace in the forest when that runs..

Burnham or the tub grinder?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

HAHAHAHA

 

[Burnham]

 

[woodworkingboy]

Did you see any deer in the area?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Whoa, she's a biggy!!!

 

[Cobleskill]

They had some here in Buffalo like that for the big October Surprise snowstorm.

 

[tntree]

Did I mention how much I hate this photo attachment program? No? Well, I do.

Ditto on the photo thing, anywhoo what a tree eating monster, need about 25 mini loaders running to service that puppy

 

[sotc]

He needs to traade up from his 550!

 

[stehansen]

Very impresssive Burnham.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

There was a big one for sale up here over the summer. Just before fall I went down to the valley and it was gone. It had a long tub vs the round.

 

[Cobleskill]

They have been grinding up old apple orchards around here with a tub grinder. I have been told they buy the orchard for $25 a tree and process it. The guy that was telling me didn't think it was for wood pellets. They are big old trees, not dwarfs. I will see if I can find someone who knows what the end use is.

 

[lumberjack]

That's the current "big" grinder at the recycle yard, their 9000 burned to the ground. They use 20t excavators to feed it, and that one looks in far better shape though.

Stephen, the "long tub" grinders are called horizontal grinders. They have a conveyor in the bottom of the feed area that pulls the material to the feed wheel (like a chipper's) and past that is largely the same as a tub grinder's mill.

What don't ya'll like about the uploader?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

That would be it.. horizontal grinder. It was parked on the side of the highway for a long time before they put a sign on it. There was a hill being cleared of brush right across the street. I guess they are just going to burn the piles. Original plan was probably grinding it all.
Behemoth of a thing.. No grapple loader on it though.

 

[Burnham]

I like nothing about the uploader, Carl...except it's pretty fast. I see no reason for it to store all my previous uploads, that just muddies the water. It screws up the order I load them in and is awkward as hell to reorganize. The controls are not intuitive to my little pea brain, it has commands I don't understand, nor am willing to spend time deciphering.

It's one of those systems that is obviously designed by someone who only cares about how the thing works from his/her own perspective and knowlege base, not how the layperson will relate to it.

It totally sux.

Other than that, I have no issues with it.

 

[stehansen]

Those things cost a fortune. I hear tell that the local orchard grinder guy here put new tier IIII 1000hp diesel motors on his and that was a quarter million.

 

[lumberjack]

It seems seriously intuitive to me. You add your files to your list, then drag and drop them in the order you want. If the order is wrong, just drag and drop it into the correct order.

Granted, this is my first time using it, I might be missing something. Is there something I could help you with?

 

[Burnham]

Carl, I'm successful at makeing it work...I just find it seriously crappy.

From your description, you and I don't use the same process...add files to list, then drag and drop? Not the way I see it. If you do it that way, it's because you don't use the upload button, which to me is the intuitive way to do it since that button is sitting there with the upload label on it. And why the hell should it keep ALL my previously loaded files on the list...that's whack.

 

[SkwerI]

The upload button is used in the first half of the two step process. After the pictures have uploaded, then you drag and drop them from the upper window to the lower window (if that doesn't happen automatically). The images in the lower window can also be arranged in order by dragging and dropping.

 

[Burnham]

I know, Brian...but the fact that I always have to rearrange them seriously pisses me off...I loaded 'em in such and such an order for a reason, why can't the damn software follow my orders???

Mine always go to the lower window when I upload.

 

[SkwerI]

Because all the pictures are being uploaded at the same time. The order they appear is the order in which they finish uploading. It's like a race.

 

[stehansen]

Now that makes sense. Thanks Brian.

 

[Burnham]

It's stupid, and the previous version didn't perform so.