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Don't get me wrong Y. J., me not giving a hoot about thread integrity, I just found the idea of handle repair deserving of its own space here at the axe forum, see?
Lets use those axes for what they were ment for.
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Why the square cuts? Gonna put a jack in there?
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You could almost use an undercutter for that work.
Getting a campground ready to open? 'Tis the season.
That's exactly what this was. A couple dozen in the campground, a few along the road in as well. The fuels crew is thinning and chipping, I went through first and knocked down the bigger hazard trees.
What about using an adze instead of an undercutter? It would be interesting to try as it has a wider cutting face and is a bit more common.
Some heavy lifting on this one. Used two different axes, the Plumb and my Atco.
60" dbh, about 175 feet tall. All but the lower few whorls dead.
Ms660 w/3' bar
There were a million ants all over this thing. I bored it to see what the wood was, knowing it had to be pushed over its lean.
Good, green wood in the stump
Let's put 'er right here, on these reprods. Stay right of the bigger one just enough not to tear it up.
Faced up
First set are in. Hard driving!
Going up another notch
On the money!
60" dbh, about 175 feet tall. All but the lower few whorls dead.
Ms660 w/3' bar
There were a million ants all over this thing. I bored it to see what the wood was, knowing it had to be pushed over its lean.
Good, green wood in the stump
Let's put 'er right here, on these reprods. Stay right of the bigger one just enough not to tear it up.
Faced up
First set are in. Hard driving!
Going up another notch
On the money!
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Damn you are good
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Right on target!
Thank you for the pics! Love the wedge pics!!
Right on target!
Thank you for the pics! Love the wedge pics!!
Some heavy lifting on this one. Used two different axes, the Plumb and my Atco.
60" dbh, about 175 feet tall. All but the lower few whorls dead.
Ms660 w/3' bar
There were a million ants all over this thing. I bored it to see what the wood was, knowing it had to be pushed over its lean.
Good, green wood in the stump
Let's put 'er right here, on these reprods. Stay right of the bigger one just enough not to tear it up.
Faced up
First set are in. Hard driving!
Going up another notch
On the money!
Hows that milled poll treating you?Some heavy lifting on this one. Used two different axes, the Plumb and my Atco.
60" dbh, about 175 feet tall. All but the lower few whorls dead.
Ms660 w/3' bar
There were a million ants all over this thing. I bored it to see what the wood was, knowing it had to be pushed over its lean.
Good, green wood in the stump
Let's put 'er right here, on these reprods. Stay right of the bigger one just enough not to tear it up.
Faced up
First set are in. Hard driving!
Going up another notch
On the money!
Well, I don't take pictures of all the ones that end up on cars or buildings
Good overall. I have a 5 pounder like it too that's on it's original 24". The little longer handle on this 4 lber is a big improvement to me. Kind of wish I had the 5# on a 36" to drive these
The downside is, they tear up wedges more that a smooth face.
Well, 95' is more than big enough to get you killed. But you're not, so you must have done something right!
All kidding aside, after more time and more experience falling timber has gone by I look back and wonder how I survived. Don't get to take a lot of the exams twice. I had good examples to learn from too.
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I've got a retired logger next door for the tricky ones, another retired logger who I'll have to grill on tips and techniques, and a friend who runs a tree business down the road so I'd like to think I could learn something from them. Ever since my dad and logger #2 undertook this with me "helping" (I was 8, okay? Not much I could do.) I've loved dropping trees and watching people drop 'em. This was about 8 years ago so I couldn't run a saw or use the D4 to pull logs so my brother and I skidded branches to our burn pile with a quad. The pile was 100-150 feet long, 10-15 feet wide and 5 or so feet tall by the time we were done. Good times.
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That's a big damn tree! They start to get interesting at about 48". What is FS policy in these regards. Can it be sold for timber with the procedes going to the FS?
Ah, crap! That's when you want a dozer pulling for you.
Almost need steel wedges at that point. A few splitting wedges might have come in handy.
It's hard to sell them here. It varies region to region though.
What we do with most of the campground stuff that's good is an exchange of service with the CalFire inmate camp that's nearby. They have a lumber mill, kiln and planer/moulder operation. Also a cabinet shop. We get picnic table lumber, siding or whatever back in trade depending on what species and what we need. A lot of times we just let them have the pine, and they make cabinets or paneling out of it.
Firewood cutters get what they don't want.
D7 winch would have been handy! I would have used jacks, if I had them along. But they were two hours away. I considered going to get them anyway, but after I figured it at being doable with not more than a double wedge just went ahead at 'er.
Yep. Those hardheads are a close second though. Having a few of them in the mix makes a big difference.
