Wood You Look At That

I'm going to try to assemble this Range Road conveyor today. Got it out of the box last night before I went to bed. Empty box and a whole whack of parts. I've emptied it all on the floor. I think just to make better sense, I didn't look at any instructions yet. I think I will though. I'm glad to see that it has steerable wheels. I was worried I was going to move it around, negotiate some rougher terrain, but it's got big wheels. Piece of frame section here, another piece of frame section over there. Over 60 chain with some toothed angle iron, hydraulic motors. That's the piece there that would keep the wood from falling down into the chain as it comes around. Hoses, hydraulic cylinders, tongue jacks, motor. Looks 5 horsepower motor. I really If I can work at my own pace, it's not My goal is to have this bay empty so I can put my tractor back in. It'sat outside for the very first time last night since 2018. That was the hardest part myself, was trying to lift that trough up to where it belongs. So I'm roughly at the hour and a half mark in this assembly program. I just ran to the local hardware store and I got a coffee. There's bolts that hold these side pieces on the trough. For one thing, I Second thing is, it comes with regular bolts on the inside. I can just see that catching the wood. So I did a big upgrade and I'll be adding carriage bolts with a round head. That should, in theory, keep the wood flowing through. Alright, back to our regularly scheduled time lapse. So I got the wheels under it, the jacks under it. Basically the biggest pieces all made perfect sense where they went. The hydraulic tank, the motor, the cylinder, that big orange H-frame, that's what does the lifting in the end. The hoses are kind of intuitive. I have to decide if I want my handles to go up or down, little decisions But the next thing to do is to just get it running, I suppose. I have about 99% there. I've got to put the chain on, of course. Put the guard on this end of the chain once the chain gets through. And the little output funnel, I guess, at the other end of it. Just to keep the wood from falling down into the chain. I'm going to go for launch right now. I'm going to get back. I'll top up the hydraulic fluid. I didn't have quite enough to see any oil in that tank. And then I just put gas and oil in the motor. I expect it'll start right up. The last radio motor that I had that was on the little splitter, the little kining splitter that I got from Range Road, first pull. Chips are all the way from China. When I pulled the string, first pull, the thing went. So I expect nothing less from this. But We're down to the point of the law of diminishing returns, which means the big pieces have already been done. Now we're down to details. It's nice to get the big pieces done, but when you get these little tiny pieces that need to be done, the fluids and little clips and pins and the bolts that you weren't supposed to tighten, now you have to tighten them all up. That can take as much time as the rest of the assembly together. But it's very, very important that it all does get done. All right. So before I go any further, I just topped up the hydraulic tank. I'm going to start this up because I want to put that orange frame. I want to fill that cylinder with fluid, raise that up enough so I can run the chain through all of that so that it no longer, I don't want it to get caught up on any of the hydraulic hoses before I, because I don't know exactly how it'supposed to be rooted to be completely honest with you. So that's going to be the next thing. So let'see if this thing will start. I put gas in it before lunch. I put oil in it before lunch. Hydraulic oil is full. Vowels are off. Fuel is on. Give it a little throttle. Fuel's on. Choke. How many poles do you think it'll take to get this to go? Unbelievable. All right. So the next trick is to thread this chain over this. This is n If anybody knows what these links are that have the little foot welded on them, let me know because I want to buy some of these for my log turner on my mill. And it's not something that's easy to find. You don't need to watch me connect the chain. I might have a couple of these videos in the wrong order. It seems I may have had it running, but trust me, when I pulled that string, that was the first time I pulled the string on that motor. So now it's just down to the fine tuning, get that chain adjusted, and the arrow out of the hydraulic system. So from a big mess to a little mess today, I'm okay with it though. I've got it all assembled. The only thing that I'm not sure about is this little skirt. I had this both directions upside down and this way, I think this will eventually lay down and prevent some wood from falling down there. I might have to re-engineer that. I'm not so sure. But we have no leaks. All you need to assemble this machine is just a few simple basic hand tools. This took me a total of maybe a little bit more than two hours. I'm a mechanic by trade, so I don't mind working with tools. And I have an idea how the hydraulics are supposed to work. I did follow some of the instructions because there are things that you have to do in certain order in order to make this all make sense. You need a 16, 17, and an 18 millimeter wrench and socket. You need a pair of pliers of some sort for the cotter pins. There's a few cotter pins here and there, For the master link on the chain, you need a 10 millimeter wrench and a socket for the adjuster nut in the middle right here. You need to have a 13 millimeter socket and a wrench for various odds and ends, The motor gets fastened to the bracket. The hydraulic tank gets fastened to that frame. This piece down here, this fellow here, that's all eight millimeter bolts, got 13 millimeter heads on it. One thing I changed that you might want to change as well. I replaced the bolts that go through here with carriage bolts just so that there's no sharp edges there for the wood to catch. Then also halfway up, probably not necessary, but I replaced these bolts with carriage bolts as well so there's nothing, no sharp edges at all. Also when I assembled these halves of all of these halves, these thirds of the conveyor trough, I tried to make sure that if there was a lip, it was going in that direction so that the wood can't catch on it. The littlest thing, the wood will find a place to catch on it. Same thing here. Don't have any transition that'significant enough for the wood to catch on. You need, I'm going to guess, about 10 liters of hydraulic oil. I use just the regular n Same thing I'd put in my wood splitter or my firewood processor. I think my firewood processor actually takes 46. But there's an adjustable wrench. Would do all of the hose fittings. There'some quick connects. You might want to set your preferences up where your handles go. You can put your handles in the top. What I ended up doing was turning this handle down so that when I lift it up, it makes the conveyor go up and I push it down. It makes the conveyor go down. Just makes sense to me. This fellow here, when I push this, pull this towards me, the conveyor goes the proper direction. Other than that, this is a conveyor. I bought this with my own money. This isn't something that I was, it's not a sponsored video by any stretch of the imagination. I get a bit of a discount from Range Road. I've had a relationship with them for years. So far, every bit of equipment that I've had did exactly as I expected it to be. It's been wonderful. I've had their processor, the Eco Pro 300. I did soup it up a little bit, but it's been a great reliable machine. Sold it to a guy not far from here. I've got their bandsaw sharpening system as well. Sharpen all my blades, except for I got some new, bought by accident, 747 blades from Woodmizer for my sawmill. And I don't have the right stone for that, so I sent that to a guy not far from here and he sharpened them for me the other day. But only have 15 of those blades to go through. It won'take long to go through those. And then I'll get back to the regular blades that I normally buy. What else do I have from Range Road? I did have their small forestry trailer before I got my hydraulic trailer. And I Sold it. I just upgraded. The only reason I sell the product is because I'm upgrading it. I have their edger behind the sawmill and that's been reliable beyond and it certainly increases my production when I'making things I can set that and run the flitches through the board edger. And I also have just picked up since Christmas their kindling maker. It's more of a smoker block maker in my opinion. It makes blocks about the size of a deck of cards. And I've got some modifications as due to that machine. It's one of their prototypes. We're going to try together to work through what that machine needs to make it 100%. To try to find a market for the blocks that come behind my firewood processor. It's kind of the idea behind that. It's not something that I'm going to get rich at doing. But This is going to be taking the oversize, the blocks, all of the bits and pieces that I normally have to hand bomb and my old shoulders ate me for it. And it will make my life so much easier. So that's it. As good as this splitter is the split fire 3255. This is the time that I wish I had a push through splitter that would drop the wood right onto that conveyor. And I wouldn't have to handle it at all. I just picked the rounds up, used that lifting table that would lift up the logs, split them course and they'd fall right into the trough on the end of that conveyor. And the trough I think would need to be bigger for that. But that's about three quarters, maybe half to three quarters throttle. So I could probably speed that processor up just by raising the RPM, but everything's brand new. So I do respect a bit of a break in procedure on that motor. So far, very, very happy with it. I wish I could reach a little further into that trader, but that's not the trader that I'll be using all the time. I'll be using my short 10 foot long trader that handles just one cord for my oversized wood I got the wrong trader. This is my longer trader. This reaches about two thirds of the way in. So maybe when it gets higher, it'll spill over. But if I have my small trader, my one cord trader, that's what this setup is made for. Or I could course pile over the side of either trader. This will reach high enough to go inside my big goose neck trader as well. So These are very reasonably priced. I don'think there's a more economical firewood conveyor on the market. I did ask for a belt one when I ordered it, but they said they discontinued that. I guess they've had problems with the belt and the alignment of it. I'm kind of used to that because I've had my Eco Pro 300 had that belt O-Feed conveyor and I was okay with it. What I wanted it for was to d But I'll figure that out. I don'think this will move the sawdust But So that's it. Overnote, everybody. Have a great weekend.