The place I like is just a few miles from the house, small country store with a deli. They are very well known for their fried chicken which in my opinion is exponentially greater than KFC and friends..
Falling wedges. What's good, what's not, and why?
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The place I like is just a few miles from the house, small country store with a deli. They are very well known for their fried chicken which in my opinion is exponentially greater than KFC and friends..
Here's one that I custom stream-lined. Makes it MUCH easier to insert them.
HILLBILLYREDNEC
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Blue Wedge
I wonder if any of the company's making wedges would do a special run of blue wedges. I think a multi colored wedges would be a nice change from the normal stock colors.
I wonder if any of the company's making wedges would do a special run of blue wedges. I think a multi colored wedges would be a nice change from the normal stock colors.
T_F_E
ArboristSite Operative
Madsens sells the blue ox wedges, that are blue.
Their house brand are blue as well.
Are those softer than the K&H's ?
are they suitable for sloping back cuts ? sorry, couldn't resist...
Mastermind
Work Saw Specialist
I am by no means a faller. Most of my experience in the woods came from when I was first married and worked at a small local sawmill. We fell and hauled most of our own timber. Everything was done the hard way. We skidded with a tractor and loaded with cant hooks and 6x6 timbers on to flat bed trucks. Everything at the mill was manual labor as well. The slabs we loaded on a ginny and swung them out to dump on a fire. We sawed squares and cross ties for the most part but cut the higher grades into inch lumber. That kind of work sure makes a guy appreciate a loader. 
I've cut my own firewood ever since, and sometime get called on to help get down troublesome trees for my neighbors. I've been reading a lot here and really enjoy having a chance to learn from you guys. :msp_thumbsup:
I've cut my own firewood ever since, and sometime get called on to help get down troublesome trees for my neighbors. I've been reading a lot here and really enjoy having a chance to learn from you guys. :msp_thumbsup:
bitzer
******** Timber Expert
You would sure think that a pro faller in the PNW would know all about blue wedges. Hell I've never even stepped in the PNW in the lower 48 and I know about them. Farthest west I've ever been is just past the sheep "herders," into the potato patch.
OK, so let me see if I get this:BLUE wedges are for Spruce; RED wedges are for Redwoods; YELLOW (yellow) wedges are for Southern Yellow Pine: GREEN wedges are for misc. Evergreens; ORANGE wedges are for Citrus trees . . . .?
Philbert
The double taper ones with the red paint on top are nice, they seem harder than some others, and they are smoooth. I don't know why someone would want a bumpy wedge?
HILLBILLYREDNEC
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Never new about Madsens till a few years ago. I had a saw shop that I got what ever I needed .If you left a random gift of Jack Daniels on the counter they would give you a few bucks off your orders. I am a scrounger and found a lot of good falling wedges that were lost or discarded in the brush. The color coding is kinda interesting theory. How about blue wedges for old growth, the yellow wedges for soft wood, and the orange for the hardwoods, the red for burned wood and green for jungle falling:hmm3grin2orange:
Supposed to act like teeth or fish hook barbs, to keep them from getting spit back out.
Philbert
PIA for stacking, imho.
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Mastermind
Work Saw Specialist
Just a quick question for you guys. Do all pro fallers use the famous sloping back cut??? :hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange:
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
I kinda forgot this thread was about wedges
here's a heavily customized K&H that looked damn near new before today, notice the weight reducing streamline cut and advanced lift mushroom head
Can you post a video of it against a stock wedge so we can argue about the .24559876 second differential and relative densities of the wood used, please?
I do like the extra white-knuckle section for more grip and the red high-impact mod section. Good thinking on both counts.
RandyMac
Stiff Member
Not every time Randy. To me a sloping back cut was when you were tip down and didn't line up.
Like the stump on the left.
Like the stump on the left.
Anybody use metric wedges, for European species?
Philbert
Philbert
are they bar coded ?
Mastermind
Work Saw Specialist
Not every time Randy. To me a sloping back cut was when you were tip down and didn't line up.
Like the stump on the left.
Great picture Randy. I was just having some fun ya know. I took the time to read this whole thread, and really enjoyed it.
HBRH was a ton of entertainment, but little else.
