Falling wedges. What's good, what's not, and why?

[Gologit]

I could use, ah, a couple hundred feet of the tape.

I'll look in the shop. I still have some...if I can dig through enough dark corners I can find it. I don't want to know what will be done with it. I imagine I'll be reading about it in the paper.

Edit...how 'bout an old scruffy looking CAUTION---TIMBER FALLING AHEAD sign?

 

[HILLBILLYREDNEC]

Tree falling

My best friend taught me the tricks to the bigger trees, so I know what I am talking about. He was as mean and as nasty as they come and I was given no mercy. If know much about timber you know the word Barber chair, watch as he laying a big cedar into a strip and the tree barber chaired, I was scared sheetless watching him run for his life. I have a healthy respect the bigger trees. He was a old school faller that was willing to show us young fallers the right way.

 

[RandyMac]

I'll look in the shop. I still have some...if I can dig through enough dark corners I can find it. I don't want to know what will be done with it. I imagine I'll be reading about it in the paper.

Edit...how 'bout an old scruffy looking CAUTION---TIMBER FALLING AHEAD sign?

Scruffy is good, I would be honored.

 

[Gologit]

Scruffy is good, I would be honored.

Might take awhile but I'll dig it out.

 

[little possum]

Well since most of you live on the wrong side of the country, I think Ill just sit over here and read! It would be awesome to learn to fall with some of you! But also at the same time, Im glad I dont have to log for a living.
Randy and Bob, why dont yall move over here! First 3 beers are on me!

 

[RandyMac]

Might take awhile but I'll get dig it out.

Next time I see ya will be soon enough. Wait that didn't sound right.
When you have the chance, will be great.
(Don't want to be demoted back to boy)

 

[Gologit]

Well since most of you live on the wrong side of the country, I think Ill just sit over here and read! It would be awesome to learn to fall with some of you! But also at the same time, Im glad I dont have to log for a living.
Randy and Bob, why dont yall move over here! First 3 beers are on me!

LP, if I drank 3 beers all at once I wouldn't be any fun at all...'cause I'd be asleep. Now, one beer, with a pizza...I could handle that.

 

[little possum]

Hah, same here.
We dont really use wedges much here. We cable everything off or use the skidsteer to push anything where it needs to go. Mostly small wood, and by the time you get enough of a cut to drive the wedge in, the tree is already goin the wrong way. But I dont claim to be a logger. Just a thinner
But we have plastic wedges, some with teeth. The steel ones have been retired to spitting duty when I get bored.

 

[RandyMac]

little possum+
You are going to have to head West. I can't cross the Rockies for another year.

 

[paccity]

ha! bob ben sittin here watchin you bite your lipp.

 

[HILLBILLYREDNEC]

WEst

Come to my part of the world and we have quite a few brewery's around here. These yuppys around like their micro brews

 

[lfnh]

Any links to photos of wedges used back in hand felling days ?

Look at usuall places but may have missed something.




..not biting

 

[slowp]

I could use, ah, a couple hundred feet of the tape.

Specifications, please.

Should one of the People Of The Hats come upon you, you were just flagging your way so as not to be lost.

The knot should face into the unit.

 

[2dogs]

My best friend taught me the tricks to the bigger trees, so I know what I am talking about. He was as mean and as nasty as they come and I was given no mercy. If know much about timber you know the word Barber chair, watch as he laying a big cedar into a strip and the tree barber chaired, I was scared sheetless watching him run for his life. I have a healthy respect the bigger trees. He was a old school faller that was willing to show us young fallers the right way.

So now you are a faller again huh? Did your friend teach you how to farmer cut big trees too? You have no credibility here. Get it?

 

[paccity]

is'nt it just amazing?

 

[Gologit]

is'nt it just amazing?

Well, that's probably a gentler word than I'd use but yeah, it is.

 

[HILLBILLYREDNEC]

So now you are a faller again huh? Did your friend teach you how to farmer cut big trees too? You have no credibility here. Get it?

Uhm the village is missing its bad mouther and they want him back:msp_ohmy:

 

[Gologit]

I wonder if it's possible to get somebody banned from just one section, like the F and L for example. Then maybe hbrn could go back down to the chainsaw and off topic threads and annoy them for a change.

Wait..I know...maybe he could be banned from everything but the Homeowner Help section...he's always very helpful with advice and I think he'd do well there. Under close supervision of course.

 

[2dogs]

Uhm the village is missing its bad mouther and they want him back:msp_ohmy:

Clever Scotty.

 

[Gologit]

Next time I see ya will be soon enough. Wait that didn't sound right.
When you have the chance, will be great.
(Don't want to be demoted back to boy)

You saved that at the last minute.