The ugly logs are generally too big and gnarly to worry about or are dealt with by workers hanging off the end of the biggest available chainsaws. Breaking these logs down to a handleable size and able to then be reworked with smaller type firewood processors is certainly an arduous task. Loosely based along the lines of the very successful Superaxe wood splitters, Whitlands Engineering have designed and built their first Rex Log Buster designed to split logs up to 9.5 ft long and 4.9 ft in diameter.
Designed to be operated from the cab of a 20 ton (metric) plus excavator, the log buster can produce up to 90 tons of splitting force. The blade has a travel speed of about 3.9 inches per second, the full travel distance through a 9.5 ft log being about 30 seconds. In most cases the log will have broken apart long before the full splitting stroke has been reached.
Initial field tests, shown on the video footage, show the Log Buster breaking up ugly red gum and yellow box logs up to 4 ft in diameter. This wood yard had accumulated a huge quantity of oversize logs over time, so the owners were certainly happy to have this machine tested on site. Over two days (16 machine hours), approximately 500 tons of oversize logs were processed and split to a size that the Rex 800 Log Saw could handle. The equivalent job on chainsaws was estimated to be about four months work, highlighting the massive efficiencies that can be achieved with this machine.
If you would like to discuss the new Rex Log Buster please contact Carta Equipment
