WILL THIS OLD CONVEYOR WORK FOR FIREWOOD? -
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Its been several weeks since I purchased this old farm conveyor. Today I am going to drag it out and see what it will take to get it running. Let me know what you think in the comments.
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Love seeing something old get brought back to life instead of being sent to the dump.....
I've seen a wheel barrow with the bottom cut out for catching the wood, good luck looks and runs great.
Good job my friend! We all have Murphys law days! Good to see that you got the conveyor up and running. It should provide you with years of service.
Nice Brad! Can't wait to see it painted!
Awesome seeing that old girl running Brad! My first day of working on my conveyor went about the same as yours… cameras off and tools everywhere 😂 I think you’re right about switching to belt drive, mine is belt and when it has gotten jammed up it’s nice knowing it’s not going to self destruct!
Your conveyor is like having a extra set of hands Brad nice video 😊
Thanks Todd. Appreciate it
Good day Brad, I think you have a fixer up conveyor that will do awesome getting wood away from the splitter. The speed seems to be just right. Cheers great purchase 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦
Thank you
Looks like the perfect speed. I love when old timey rusty equipment comes alive again and gets put to use. Awesome.
Congratulations on getting the conveyor running. I like that speed!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Really happy for you.
Good things happen to good people.
Thank you buddy
I know someone may have mentioned this already, grease will be the chains best friend.
Happy all worked out, good addition to the wood yard.
Congratulations Brad 👍 looks like you got a deal on the conveyor. Keep lots of chain lube on hand. It would be safe insurance to put an amp meter on that motor to see if your stressing it under load. (load =wood going up the conveyor). You may want to see if a friction clutch will work in place of that Lovejoy. Maybe better and cheaper then a belt drive system. Good luck, It should help you with your workload in the woodyard.
Thanks so much for the feedback
Nice one mate .might want to install a kill switch inline so you can stop it quickly in case of stuff ups . enjoy your weekend
Brad. I'm glad you got it up and running. I rebuild engines, and every now and then, I have one that, from tare down to rebuild it will be something that will fight every step of the way. So i can relate to the frustration on this one..
Hopefully, you and your family have a good Thanksgiving..
Nice work brad. Conveyor runs nice.
hi there looks like it will work just fine . sorry about your bad day , they seam to go from place to place day before yesterday was my turn . john
Just looked at a conveyor yesterday. Looking forward to a build of my own. Thanks Brad
🦃 Happy Thanksgiving to our family at Firewood at the Furnace! 🍁
Thanks Anthony and same to you!
Great job Brad. Gotta love projects/days like that. Looks like a great speed for that ear corn elevator. You can still get that chain. Their is a tool that makes taking the links apart easier. I can see a set of grizzly bars on the discharge end to screen some of the stuff out of it. Have a great one!
Glad the conveyor is gonna work for you. Great video as always 👍. If I'm not on the live stream I will for sure be watching the replay 😀. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Congrats on the 6K🎉🎉
Looks like a good piece of equipment, hope you get lots of good use out of it.
Still looking for a conveyer I have a few I have been looking at but haven’t pulled the trigger yet. Glad the machine is up and running I’ll be watching to see how it holds up and the sweet firewood at the furnace paint job.🤘🏻🤘🏻🍺🍺
Great job on getting the convey working! I know you will make it look good, like you did with the skid steer!!
Hey Brad, you can still slip drive the reduction box with a "V" belt for safety reasons. Just offset the drive motor to accommodate the pulleys and leave the belt tension just enough to get it to run.
P.S. keep a bit of drain oil on hand to drizzle on the chain every other time you use it.
Glad you got it operating and be sure to check the oil in the gear box and oil your chain. It turns fast enough I would leave it alone. Have a great day be safe.
That’s going to be a great thing to have on your wood yard. Good luck and I love watching your videos.
Thanks and I appreciate that
GOOD DEAL! I was hoping this would work out for you. Congratulations on a great investment Brad 👍
Thanks so much
What a game changer!!! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!
Like the taller sides.
I love my single drag chain conveyor. Mine is almost twice as long. I put it up high and put 9 ibc tote baskets underneath it and it fills them all up at the same time. Super slick
Nice!
Pretty good score for what you have invested in it!!
Keep it simple and don’t overthink your mods on this.💪🇺🇸
For future reference… most heavy use conveyors pull the load (top drive) rather than push it. I’m an equipment mechanic/welder/machinist/linebore guy by trade…keep your calm, common sense approach to this. Too many firewood guys lack mechanical common sense and intuition. You have an awesome channel started!!
Thanks so much
Looks like it has and will be worth your efforts!👍 Happy Thanksgiving!🦃🦃
Love to have one too! Back saver!
Congrats Brad!!! Looking forward to seeing many cords of wood roll off of it! My main job is a mechanic for the sawmill I work at so I can definitely appreciate the rush you feel when something finally works whether you work on it for 10 min or 10 hrs. Looking forward to tomorrow evening!!! Great vid and keep it up 👍.
Good job Brad
Conveyor looks like it will work out great for ya Brad! Congrats on the well deserved 6K subs, talk to you tomorrow!
Thanks so much buddy
Looking forward to the livestream. I’m down here in Southern MD
Run it, looks good
Nice conveyor! I think that speed is perfect! I wouldn’t be afraid to leave the setup just how it is. There should be a trip on that motor in case it got in a bind and it will kick off. I wouldn’t think it would break the chain🤷♂️ Safer than having a belt to get caught up in. Well done Brad👊🏻🦅🥃🇺🇸
Yes there is a breaker on the motor.
There is an occasional loud bang. Investigate that. It may become a jam. I think one of the paddles is hitting as it rounds the top of the conveyor.
Otherwise, all looks good. Speed is great. See you Thursday night
Thanks Chuck. Yes I heard that a couple of times and I think your right. One of them is hitting at the top
When you get your repair links, look to see if they have the tool to help break the chain and re-install the links. It kind of looks like a hatchet/hammer that is slotted (3 slots, I think) on the hatchet side, only flatter. It holds the chain and aligns the joints for easier removal and install. You can get by without it, but we had one and when the neighbors weren't borrowing it, we always used it.
Great feedback. Thanks!
those ''wrenches'' as I call them are great, gives you a solid hard something to beat on while you twist the chain to get the open slots lined up, Fully Agree with You.
Looks awesome!
Good job brad
I think that conveyor would be great for loading your dump trailer to instead of throwing the wood at it. I never liked throwing wood to load it glad all my wood comes off a conveyor now
I have been looking for one of those for a while now. I think they will work good with a few simple modifications.
Bad Ass. Glad it worked out in the end for ya.
Thanks Matt
Good luck, myself I found an” old” roofing conveyor (hydraulic driven, raise/lower,pivot) to convert
Nice elevator. We have built several renditions and the single chain work best. We currently are using a 40’ hay elevator we’ve retrofitted for wood works real good.
40 ' WoW, that should make one big mountain of firewood before you have to move it. either that or you have some terrible tall sideboards on your truck or trailer.
My plans exactly ! Keep firewood as low touch as possible !
Hello Brad, you should check the amp draw on the motor to stay within the data plate on the motor, otherwise it looks perfect! Happy Thanksgiving to you and Family my friend 🪵🚜👍🏼🇺🇸
Nice job on getting her up and running.
So for sure is it a whole cob corn conveyer?? Because I like the idea of this better than the twin chain setup.
Brad were that motor is mounted on there's four bolts you should be able to slide that motor up and line it straight up and I think I'll take some used oil and run over that chain
I like it and I think it will work good for you.
Hey Brad, love the video as always!!!::)) keep up the good work amigo!!::))
That's awsome... its alive!!!!... may want to change the gear oil if you haven't already... now go build a mountain of firewood
I have one similar but I believe mine is older. Just got it shipped here it’s a 1958 model corn cob conveyor 36 footer would be happy to send you photos
Awesome elevator I'd love one exactly like it I'd say its running perfectly
Nice !! Glad you got the conveyor working. Happy Thanksgiving !!! Not sure I will able to make Thirsty Thursday but I will try.
Thanks Tim. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well
Your Gear reduction box is about 30 to one-you did good, make sure wood going into conveyor enters foot or so above the bottom drive pully and used motor oil on the chain..
Wood Hound, YOU are correct !!! I timed it with the vid, and the output side of the reducer revolved at one rpm per second, the motor given speed is 1800 rpm which breaks down to 30 rpm's per second, so that gives a motor to reducer ratio of 30 to 1. and maybe +/- a bit of the error side to account for the load of the weight and friction of the drive chain and associated rust.
Firewood, I got a four letter word for you. COAL. However, by the looks of all that stacked firewood, you seem to be enjoying what you’re doing.
Anthracite is the way to go. Buy a many years supply when cheap. Don’t spoil none. Burns real clean. John 21:9. CharCOAL 🔥 😎
You need to get some drain oil and oil your chain. Runs great
😁hello Mr. Brad, looks good works good, IF you do convert this to run off of a belt, remember you can further tune in the conveyor speed by the belt pully's size , remember the chain gears on a ten speed bike, it I were in your position, I would not change a thing, I bet you look at it real good there is a shear pin in it someplace, now use some wd 40 to flush out the rust in the chain joints, and then follow with gear oil dribbled on it, and then some dribbled in the top end to remove rust and build up where the paddles touch the return trough, LOOKS GREAT
Thanks Ben! Hope you are well
Great job getting it running. Though you need to find a person that can weld......lol
Know anyone??? Lol
looks great! FYI if your gas motor is turning the wrong direction just twist the belt in a figure 8 and it will reverse the direction on the other end.
Nice job
Thanks Greg
Brad the conveyor looks like it will work great. Happy Thanksgiving 🍁🦃🍽!
Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you!
Looks like it will work well. Maybe not for loading face cords into trailer without you touching every piece by hand but I’m sure you’ll find plenty of uses for it.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family
Same to you Deb!
That looks like it should work good.
Pour some oil on the chains that will be good to keep it from binding at all
Excellent Brad. Great price to will definitely be a great investment for the wood yard. Love the videos.
Appreciate the support. Thank you
Always welcome from N Wilkesboro N.C.
Also keep some extra spiders around. If there's a jam they will break pretty easily just like a shear pin would. Nice job
I think the single drag chain will be better, definitely looks heavier than the two chain style and should be less likely to bind up. What's the plan for the conveyor, just to split into the dump? As for painting, just remember chrome don't get you home.
Yes I can split into the trailer and move it to where it’s getting stacked. Can also knock the piles over into the conveyor to load for deliveries. Will be better than throwing each individual piece
Good speed on the elevator. But refresh my memory again please as to why you felt the need to have one? Just curious is all .
I’m going to use it to load the dump trailer for deliveries rather than hand tossing each individual piece and also to move wood away from the splitter as I process.
Cool setup man, that should help you out a lot.
Thanks
Are you going to do more modifications on the conveyer, such as painting it,
Yes going to make it look as good as I can
i have been looking for a elevater just like that for a couple years. I think around me they have been scraped.
This is the only one I’ve seen like this. I wasn’t looking for this kind but the price was right and I think I like this style better
You might want to change the gearbox oil if you haven't done it.
Slip clutch might be easier than pulley
If you want to know the ratio of the gear box diconnect the motor and mark the shaft of the gearbox and count how many turns it takes for the shaft to go all the way around if it takes 40 turns to go all the way around its a 40 to 1 sorry for this comment if you already know this
Correction mark the shaft on the chain shaft and see how many full turns it takes on the motor side and see how many turnes it takes on the motor shaft to get the chain side to go all the way around and that will tell you your ratio
Look's great oil up that chain with waste motor oil and it should be fine.
I don't think you would have to worry about breaking that king and just doing firewood maybe if a kinlin stick got down in it it might pop to clean off but Keep the chain greased up with either wire rope cane loor white lesbian you should check the gear Box it might need some oil or it might run on Greece too but I hate that I'll do everything that you want to do and I think the gear Box will work better About when it gets wet and any resistance a gangster might slip more than what you want it to
For anyone watching this in March 2024, if you fitted a Petrol motor and twisted the drive belt like a figure 8, then it would turn the gearbox the correct way. Your welcome
Some chain lube would help as well
Put some used motor oil on that chain
Looks awesome…wanna sell that go kart your kids out grew?
I can send you some pictures bud.
Thursday is Thursday
Put a hydraulic motor on it and power it off the splitter
I won’t always be using it with the splitter. It will also load the trailer for deliveries
Lube that puppy up should be good. If you want to control the speed, put a reostat between your power line and motor. Great job Brother Brad.
Thank you
@@FirewoodattheFurnace also Brother, did you put in some 80/90 gear oil in the gear reduction motor.
@@FirewoodattheFurnace Damm good deal Brad.
@@FirewoodattheFurnace darn sad we didn’t live close by, can still do some fabrication with one and 1/8 hand.
@@FirewoodattheFurnace wood love to get your number from you, for ideas.
Big fan from Ohio brad! Congratulations on 6k well deserved 😁🪵🔥
Thanks so much Mark. Appreciate the support
The speed looks spot on👍. Look forward to seeing you finish modifying and clean it up and run some wood through it. Hopefully make life a bit easier!
Looks like you got another nice tool for the woodshed toolbox!
Any equipment you can use to make your work easier is a God-send! Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Amen
Them old farm elevators seem to run forever.....I had a hay elevator I used for many years to pile firewood off of the splitter!! They typically don't look very good but definitely still work lol!! I will definitely be ready tomorrow night! Stay safe my friend
60 yrs. ago we would drizzle some old motor oil on the chain before loading hay into the barn. This brought back some pleasant memories. cheers.
There may be an oil reservoir in the gear reduction box. If so, you’d want to change that oil and put some gear oil in it.
Brad that conveyor looks great and i see a bunch more wood getting proccessed and thst conveyour coming thru in a big way
Appreciate it Will!
Nice work Brad….!! Way to stick with it and persevere….!! Slow and steady wins the race…!! Time for red paint and FATF stickers….!!!
The little bit we used ours was worth it,going to have to refabricate it but I feel it will pay for itself in less than a year,good luck!