THEME FIREWOOD
A high powered automatic Marie-Maud Gerard – ITEBE
Splitter-Saw
Modernising the production of firewood continues with, notably, more and more important offers of new equipments: Pezzolato has launched a new, completely automatic splitter-saw, or firewood processor, that is adapted to high rates of production.
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n ew a ut o m a t ic firew o o d processor has arrived to widen the range of the market for firewood production devices. Indeed, Pezzolato has developed a completely automatic machine with computerised control, and a new prototype has been used for demonstrat i o ns s in ce la s t yea r. A s eco n d
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machine has been running for a few months in Northern Italy. In addition to its own wide experience, this Italian company has benefited from the experience of a company building sawmills, Biogioanni, that it bought in 2001 in order to continue innovation in the field of high powered machinery. PEZZOLATO – GF SERVICES
The splitter-saw is equipped with two splitting matrices to authorise a high rate of production.
The splitter-saw is equipped with a circular saw 1,400mm in diameter with variable drive that can cut wood up to 52 cm in diameter. To ensure a high rate of production of the splitter that matches the production of the saw, - logs are produced every 6 seconds - two splitters are installed in parallel right after the saw. The cut logs are alternately steered towards the one or the other to maintain the rate. Finally, to avoid losses and to use the raw material optimally, the machine optimises the cutting lengths according to the tolerance defined by the operator, and also the split by centring the splitting matrix. Management of production is made easier by a machine that gives high volume and short production time. In these conditions of production, the logistics of supply upstream, and the packaging unit downstream must be extremely well organised to use optimally the capacity of the splittersaw. 5
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