Mastermind
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Yeah it's been made clear that he don't know his ass from a hill of beans. Even when he posts in the CS forum his "advice" is just the same thing that was posted a few posts before.
Falling wedges. What's good, what's not, and why?
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Yeah it's been made clear that he don't know his ass from a hill of beans. Even when he posts in the CS forum his "advice" is just the same thing that was posted a few posts before.
At the museum I went to in Raymond, they had what looked like an old car bumper jack. The top, which I assumed would go against the top of the cut, had little prongs on it. The notch required to fit the jack in would be about 3 feet high. Then it looked like you had to stand there and jack it up. The thing was sitting alongside the springboards in the museum.
That jack did not look trustworthy.
That jack did not look trustworthy.
This should stave off that LSD problem:
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Sport Faller
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I think those were called a Boker, and they were pretty famous for breaking arms
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dave k
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I had forgotten about this wedge, it was part of the kit issued with a Stihl BLK to the German army in the 50's. That is a 8" next to it for scale. I remembered about it when I saw the same type of wedge in last years catalogue for a French timbermans supply company I was given the other day. The BLK came complete in a large wooden box with spares, tin oil & fuel cans, funnel and a rather niffty tin chain storage box.
Sorry I still have not mastered this posting pics lark yet.
Sorry I still have not mastered this posting pics lark yet.
Mastermind
Work Saw Specialist
Here ya go Dave. I ain't good for much, but I got this. 
Here ya go Dave. I ain't good for much, but I got this.
Is that the eagle on the badge? No swastika, tho, uh?
I have this mag wedge from Madsen's. Even though it really nice to use as a wedge driver I don't carry it very often.
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Hank Chinaski
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paccity
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RandyMac
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Where your jack buddy? You could have lifted it straight off the hinge.
shoulda put a slopping back cut in it and then pounded plastic.
Dang why didn't I think of that?
It's a bummer when the tree actually has to fall where it is gunned. It is a scary time when the hinge breaks and the tree is sitting on the wedges and not falling! Fortunately time was on our side here. Cody went back to the truck for the throw bag and bull rope and when he got back in 15 minutes the tree finally let go. The hinge on this one didn't break.
BTW I don't have a jack but I sure wish I did. If anyone comes across a jack for sale send me a PM.
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:bang: Oh yeah, been there a time or two. That's when you try to get the skid Cat to come over. Or trudge back up the hill (it's always up the hill) and get the jacks that you hadn't brought down the first time because you knew you wouldn't need them.
Save up your nickles and dimes...get a jack. Even that little Silvey HiJacker will get you out of trouble sometimes. I'll keep my eyes and ears open for a good used one but, as a rule, the guys don't ever let them go.
shoulda put a slopping back cut in it and then pounded plastic.
I don't know if that was a typo or not but "slopping" back cut pretty much sums it up. I think slopping should become the formal term used when describing that particular cut.
Paccity, you just coined a phrase...good on ya.
Did you throw rocks at it?
I threw rocks at it but then I prayed. The two cancelled each other out/
